Tag: Inflation
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Work & Economy
We’ll gather together — even though everything seems so much more expensive
Economists explain why Americans feel inflation, economy are much, much worse than they actually are
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Work & Economy
The economy keeps getting better. Our moods? Not so much.
By nearly every metric, the U.S. economy is not only recovering, it’s thriving. So why don’t consumers feel that way?
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Work & Economy
New inflation report offers hope, but expert says we’re not out of woods yet
Harvard economist breaks down what latest inflation report may mean for the year ahead.
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Work & Economy
Fed needs to get tough on rates now, Summers says
With new report showing consumer prices rising, central bank needs to control inflation, soften blow of expected recession, the economist says.
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Work & Economy
Larry Summers details how Senate plan will reduce inflation
The Gazette spoke with economist and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers about the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
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Work & Economy
Is recession inevitable? Economist says plenty of tools remain
Economist Betsey Stevenson assesses the effect of the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate hike and whether a recession is now a certainty.
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Work & Economy
Things may look shaky, but recession isn’t certainty
Harvard Kennedy School economist Jason Furman discusses stock market volatility and inflation.
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Work & Economy
Why is inflation at four-decade high?
Harvard’s Alberto Cavallo explains what’s driving inflation to historic figures.
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Nation & World
Christie takes shots at Trump, Biden
Former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie offered his frank assessments of the political landscape and his friend Donald Trump.
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Work & Economy
No panic in Furman’s reaction to inflation data, but plenty of uncertainty
Jason Furman explains the state of the economy and what consumers can expect during the next few months.
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Work & Economy
How invasion may hit U.S., global economies
Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff sees possible fallout in stock, energy markets, worsening of inflation, increase in military spending
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Work & Economy
Summers says pandemic only partly to blame for record inflation
Inflation’s re-emergence leaves the guardians of the U.S. economy with a tricky balance to strike, cooling the economy with interest rate hikes while avoiding recession, Harvard’s Lawrence Summers said.
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Work & Economy
Will Omicron damage the economy?
Harvard economist and Nobel laureate Eric Maskin sees possible challenges and reasons for optimism.
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Work & Economy
What should Biden do about inflation? Mostly sit tight
Harvard economist says economy is on right track, and there are few things he can try, but higher prices will eventually resolve themselves.
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Work & Economy
A key inflation index leaps. Getting worried?
Economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses how consumers’ perceptions about inflation are an important factor that influences inflationary cycles.
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Work & Economy
Is inflation a problem now? Maybe, but more likely not
Alberto F. Cavallo talks about what’s driving prices up, how far they may still go, and what COVID has revealed about the U.S. economy.
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Science & Tech
Before the Big Bang
Harvard researchers are proposing using a “primordial standard clock” as a probe of the primordial universe. The team laid out a method that may be used to falsify the inflationary theory experimentally.
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Campus & Community
James Lawrence Medoff
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 7, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Lawrence Medoff, Meyer Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry, was spread upon the records. Professor Medoff was an influential labor economist whose distinctive methods and broad interests expanded the vision…
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Campus & Community
Update on labor talks
A Q-and-A with Harvard officials Marilyn Hausammann and Bill Murphy on the status of contract negotiations with the University’s largest union.