...promotions or raises. Sick workers mean others have to pick up the slack. Economists such as Harvard 's Alberto Alesina and MIT 's Olivier Blanchard , now International Monetary Fund chief economist, have reached the same conclusion:...

In this article: Chris Dodd, Unemployment, Labor Department, Hiv/aids, International Franchise Association, MIT, Harvard, Olivier Blanchard, and Alberto Alesina

Although the yuan has appreciated 20% against the dollar over the last several years, Obama and Strauss-Kahn both agree with Paul Krugman , the Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist, who wrote on Nov. 15 that China severely...

In this article: Paul Krugman, China, Wal-Mart, Barack Obama, Mattel, Target, Dell, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn

The nation stands on the verge of achieving fundamental health-care reform. For the first time in history, the House of Representatives has enacted comprehensive health-reform legislation, and the Senate has begun its own debate. These bills...

In this article: Medicare, House of Representatives, Peter Orszag, Tax, Inflation, Anxiety, and Congressional Budget Office

...he calls "the mother of all carry trades." Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Simon Johnson faults Bernanke's predecessor, Alan Greenspan , for ignoring the risk of bubbles and says, "The intellectual apparatus of Greenspan is...

In this article: The Fed, Ben S. Bernanke, Inflation, Alan Greenspan, Barack Obama, U.S., Hong Kong, Futures contract, Capital Economics, and Copper

...which include self-employed workers and small entrepreneurs, suggest a number above two million. He also echoes Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's analysis that credit is restored for corporations with access to capital markets but not for...

In this article: Small business, Recession, Credit crunch, Bankruptcy, The Globe and Mail, NYU, Ben Bernanke, and Goldman Sachs

...and Ford. Design and build your car, Local Motors CEO explains how. Bank of America 's Ken Lewis admits to pressure from Paulson , Bernanke. Nouriel Roubini reacts to Mad Money feud. Real estate has dropped more than 10% in the city of...

In this article: Recession, Nascar, Black and Veatch, Ken Lewis, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ben Bernanke, NHL, Bank of America, AIG, and Nouriel Roubini

...global financial meltdown. They are also at the center of an age-old debate recently reignited by columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in a Sept. 6 New York Times Magazine article titled, "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?," which...

In this article: Economics, Paul Krugman, University of Chicago, Irrationality, and Democracy

...address and hurries out and moments later, Rod the driver is blasting his siren and running red lights, rushing Orszag to his next meeting. How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes the Government Work He's an Iraq -war vet, a West Point and...

In this article: Peter Orszag, Office of Management and Budget, Salad, United States, Chicken, and E mail

...and ModerationFAQ: HuffPost Accounts The bankers financed his election, plain and simple. He's letting Geithner , Summers and Bernanke pay them back for him and hopes we wont notice. He's very wrong. - + fairwitness I'm a Fan of...

In this article: Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Robert Rubin, and Chris Dodd

...knew it was time to run the latest terror-filled missive from the world's most depressing economist, Nouriel Roubini. Yet again, Nouriel Roubini inspires in us a palpable fear using nothing but words and numbers with his latest column in...

In this article: Nouriel Roubini, Recession, Economic stagnation, Deflation, RGE Monitor, International Monetary Fund, Japan, and U.S.

...bonuses. And $1 trillion might be inadequate as well. There is a simpler answer, one endorsed by former Fed chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan , Sen. Bernie Sanders , and Bank of England Gov. Mervyn King : Break them up. Any bank that's...

In this article: Paul Volcker, Barney Frank, Washington, Recession, Tax, Financial crisis, Mervyn King, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

...to domestic agencies to limit their budget requests for the 2011 budget year comes as an economic advisory board chaired by Paul Volcker is debating ways to reform the tax code. Virtually all budget experts say there will have to be...

In this article: Peter Orszag, Barack Obama, Treasury Department, Tax, White House, Revenue, Paul Volcker, GOP, and George H.W. Bush

...focusing on them will cause them to lose sight of their core inflation -fighting mission. Moreover, like his predecessor, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke still believes central bankers aren't smart enough to tell when a bubble has developed -- and...

In this article: The Fed, Janet Yellen, Wall Street, Tax, Inflation, Sugar, Ben Bernanke, Newsweek, and Nouriel Roubini

...of the key players in this debacle are still shaping policy today. Start at the top with then Treasury secretary, now Obama economics czar Larry Summers , who boldly declared that the deregulation would "benefit American consumers,...

In this article: Glass-Steagall Act, Larry Summers, Federal Reserve, Bill Clinton, Enron, Tim Geithner, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission

...finally in recovery, but it will be a 'long, hard path' before it is back to full health, the Bank of England said yesterday. Governor Mervyn King said the recovery was under way, and signalled that interest rates will remain low at least...

In this article: Bank of England, Mervyn King, Recession, Britain, Inflation, Credit crunch, Citigroup, and London

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said he has an open mind on whether to inject more money into the economy, as the UK has only 'just started' along the road to recovery. Published: 1:56PM GMT 11 Nov 2009 Bank of England projections...

In this article: Bank of England, Inflation, Mervyn King, UK, and Recession

The UK economy has 'only just started' along the road to recovery, Mervyn King , the Bank of England Governor, said today, as the Bank raised its forecasts for growth and inflation. Published: 11:12AM GMT 11 Nov 2009 Bank of England...

In this article: Bank of England, Inflation, Mervyn King, Recession, and UK

...first-class university," Williamson said. "It's had a real impact on scholarship in the last 50 years and more. "I'm grateful for my Stanford education, for the good colleagues I have had at Stanford ," he added. "I think we've all got...

In this article: Oliver Williamson, Economics, Stanford, Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Prize, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Haas School of Business, and Rigor