Word: scholarly
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...describes market booms and busts as the product of fashion and animal spirits. A trio of academics revisited a famous 1934 paper that debunked the predictions of Dow theorist Hamilton and found that, adjusted for risk, Hamilton's predictions beat the market. MIT's Andrew Lo, a top finance scholar, has made technical analysis one of his main research topics. So maybe there is something to it. Or maybe this is just evidence of a social wave in action...
When the specter asks Pertile about his rumored departure, Pertile--a Dante scholar who has been notably involved, to say the least, with House crew--offers: “'Mr. Eliot, you see, this is our tenth year, and the third in which we hold the Agassiz Cup. I don’t think we should tempt fortune further...we have had such a wonderful run here for the past ten years, that to ask you and the other Gods'--he liked that a lot!--'to ask you and the other Gods for more'--he loved that!--'might be foolish?...
...fear so passionately that somebody might have everything—brains, looks, social connections, a sense of humor—that we tear down and pick apart. Nobody should have a beach house in Antigua and a summa thesis. Nobody should be a Class Marshal and a Rhodes Scholar. The person who got that job at Morgan Stanley is a “moron.” Our friend working for his senator is an “alcoholic...
...municipalities, it's been good, but it raises some political-economy questions," says Vincent Reinhart, a resident scholar at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and a former top Federal Reserve economist. "This might encourage even more expansion of government borrowing...
Harvard economics and philosophy Professor Amartya Sen and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris economics professor Jean-Paul Fitoussi discussed their research on alternative ways of measuring the success of a society as part of a panel discussion organized by Center for European Studies visiting scholar Éloi Laurent...