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Liquidators insist they're not the bad guys, and can get quite defensive about their profession. "Someone who is inexperienced will say 'the liquidators are taking over the company, and therefore we are going out of business," says Harvey Yellen, chairman of the Great American Group. "You're going out of business because the company ran into bleak times, or was run wrong. We get hired to fix the problem. We're not the cause." Liquidators need to motivate a sales force that's about to lose their jobs. That's no easy task. "It's a depressed atmosphere," says...
With the economy in the U.S. "contracting significantly" in the fourth quarter, as San Francisco Fed president Janet Yellen recently put it, an issue that was practically unthinkable three months ago is now, for the Fed, front and center: the possibility of the U.S. entering a phase of deflation, or protracted declines in the general price level. In its statement accompanying the most recent interest-rate cut, the Fed said, "In light of the declines in the prices of energy and other commodities and weaker prospects for economic activity, [the Fed] expects inflation to moderate...
...when applying to college. “Harvard is hard to get into, period,” Chen said. “You just appreciate racial diversity here.” The study was conducted by David R. Colburn, a history professor at the University of Florida; Victor M. Yellen, a former director of institutional research at Florida; and Charles E. Young, professor and former chancellor of UCLA. The trio looked at enrollment data from the University of California’s Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego campuses, as well as the University of Florida and the University...
...modern Japanese studies. The letter seeks “not only to laud the professor’s qualities as a teacher and mentor, but to make a case for the field of Japanese pre-modern history and its relevance to contemporary times.” Jeremy A. Yellen, a first-year graduate student in the PhD program in modern Japanese history, said that all areas of Japanese studies will “take a hit” when Adolphson leaves Harvard. “Even those who come here to study modern Japanese history come here because of Harvard?...