Simon Johnson
Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management....
View ArticleNouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini is the cofounder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an independent, global macroeconomic and market strategy research firm. The firm’s website, Roubini.com, has been named one of...
View ArticleRobert Shiller
Robert J. Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the...
View ArticleDamon A. Silvers
Damon A. Silvers is an Associate General Counsel for the AFL-CIO. Mr. Silvers’ responsibilities include corporate governance, pension and general business law issues. Mr. Silvers led the AFL-CIO legal...
View ArticleHow to Get a Budget Deal Instead of the Cliff
Dear Congress, Please don’t drive our economy off the fiscal cliff. First of all, I really hate recessions—and you should, too. If you take between 3% and 4% of total spending out of an economy, a...
View ArticleState should take lead in commerce
In an effort to promote a more balanced economic approach between government and business, President Obama has proposed a consolidation of the Executive branch’s nine currently discrete department and...
View ArticleTime to incentivize federal prison funding
Any business run like the federal criminal justice system would fail. Businesses understand that survival depends on generating a return on investment. However, a new report released today by the Urban...
View ArticleThe Quiet Closing of Washington
Conservative Republicans in our nation’s capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when Tea Partiers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011: They’ve basically shut Congress...
View ArticleBill de Blasio for Mayor
Throughout American history, when Washington has stumbled, New York has led with progressive reforms. It goes with the territory. Teddy Roosevelt ushered in major progressive era reforms first as...
View ArticleFinancial Integrity, the First Requirement for the Fed
The current debate over the Fed Chairmanship displays the ethical emptiness at the top of U.S. political and financial power. We have just had a near-death experience in the world economy thanks to the...
View ArticleIncome Gap the Bane of United States
US President Barack Obama has just committed himself and his administration to fighting the scourge of income inequality. Indeed, it is not a moment too soon to focus on this issue. The United States’...
View ArticleOur Ministry of Planning
The New York Times had a terrific Sunday article on a new waste-to-energy technology that could convert massive quantities of trash into synthetic natural gas. This technology, from isn’t perfect — the...
View ArticleWhy Congress’s Gridlock Doesn’t Paralyze Government but Gridlocks Democracy
Congress began its summer recess last week and won’t reconvene until after Labor Day. You’d be forgiven for not noticing a difference. With just 15 bills signed into law so far this year, the 113th...
View ArticleTo Reform the NSA, Slash Its Budget
Thus far, the “debate” over the breadth and depth of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) overreach has exclusively addressed its programs — what it does, what it is authorized to do, its...
View ArticleHopeless Inequality (or Feeble Politics)?
Though President Obama’s State of the Union said the right things about the disgrace of growing inequality in America, his remedial measures are mainly gestures. Yes, they are gestures in the right...
View ArticleOur Dangerous Budget and What to Do About It
The December budget deal, worked out between Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray, has been widely greeted with relief. Since the first days of the Obama Administration in 2009, Washington...
View ArticleBeyond GDP: What the Measure of Economic Performance Misses About Economic...
The media and economic communities regularly use Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a tally of all goods and services produced within a country during a specific time period, as a measure of economic...
View ArticleDoing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor
Washington is full of well-meaning types who want to help the poor. The list of prospective helpers includes not only the standard liberal do-gooder types talking about programs like pre-K education,...
View ArticleWhat Is Our Public GDP? Valuing Government in the Twenty-First Century Economy
While many Americans continue to struggle with unemployment and financial distress in the aftermath of the Wall Street crisis of the late 2000s, it is increasingly recognized that these acute problems...
View ArticleThoughtful, Prudent and Faltering: The Paradox of Obama
No president ever wins points for being Hamlet. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman’s extended interview with President Obama shed some light on how Obama can be well-informed, thoughtful,...
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