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...certainly better for economic activity to be increasing rather than decreasing, but the focus on whether the economy is in recession or not can miss a lot. "I don't care about what the dating committee says. I'm concerned about longer-term issues," says Yale economist Robert Shiller. "We are in for an extended period of subnormal economic growth." Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer of bond-investing giant Pimco, has popularized a catchier if less informative phrase for what we're in for: "the new normal...
...will make Google virtually invulnerable to competition," says Robert Darnton, head of the Harvard University library system...
...both for his administrative experience and his background as a material scientist. “I think he enjoyed being head of [Harvard's] Rowland Institute, but he has sort of a sense of duty and responsibility to make things work well,” said Applied Physics Professor Robert M. Westervelt. “It can get kind of hard to cut [costs], and he can handle it carefully.” Incoming Engineering School Dean Cherry A. Murray praised Spaepen as “the obvious person” for the job, adding that this very appointment demonstrates...
...April, Robert Arnott--a veteran money manager from Southern California and former editor of the finance wonks' bible, the Financial Analysts Journal--penned a much discussed article for something called the Journal of Indexes. Arnott pointed out that while stocks still beat bonds over the long, long run, they actually lost out to 20-year government bonds from March 1969 through March 2009. That 40-year period is, by most standards, a pretty long...
Brad Pitt Was Here. The Resort at Paws Up, on the banks of Montana's Blackfoot River, has a little something for everyone: trail-riding, mountain-biking, river-rafting, birding and, as depicted in Robert Redford's A River Runs through It, fly-fishing (the movie was filmed on the Blackfoot River). Right now, the resort has a four-day package, including two full days of fly-fishing, a box of customized Paws Up flies, two Montana State fishing licenses, half a day of any adventure activity, plus a copy of A River Runs through It in paperback...