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The East Coast snow storm has authorities scrambling to free up resources to save Christmas (shopping).
States are unable to investigate fraudulent federal stimulus spending due to layoffs in auditor and legal offices caused by the recession.
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Glenn Hubbard also rejects proposals to audit the Federal Reserve, and to put a cap on the size of large financial institutions.
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The Columbia Business School dean to President Obama: “Focus on getting that long-term deficit down.”
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The Fed should stick to monetary policy, says Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School.
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Glenn Hubbard has a bold idea: it’s called the new Marshall Plan.
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How will institutions change their curriculum post-crisis? Columbia Business School’s dean, Glenn Hubbard, believes the key is to teach broad leadership skills.
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A conversation with the dean of Columbia Business School.
Imagine you’re a citizen who cares a whole lot about stopping climate change. When it became clear that a hugely important climate conference would take place in Copenhagen in December […]
Google’s scheme to dominate the world of digital book vending was dealt a legal blow yesterday by a French court who ruled that copyrights of French authors are violated each […]
World leaders left the Copenhagen conference before signing an agreement that would obligate countries to reduce emissions.
Large concessions were made to get the most conservative Democratic Senator on board with healthcare legislation to be unveiled today.
The Department of Homeland Security is studying physical characteristics like strained facial expressions that could betray malintent.
Iranian soldiers took an Iraqi oil well on Thursday night long enough to evacuate Iraqi workers and hoist Iran’s flag inside the well.
Scientists have created synthetic red blood cells that can effectively carry oxygen as well as medicine throughout the body.
A new study indicates that drinking dark liquors like Bourbon is more likely to give you a nasty hangover than clear liquors such as Vodka.
Scientists may have discovered a batch of the mysterious dark matter which makes up 95% of the universe in—Minnesota. Where else?
Some 100 Guantanamo inmates are scheduled to be relocated to an empty prison in the rural town of Thompson, Illinois raising several legal questions.
France has fined Google $14,000 per day until extracts of French books are removed from Google’s online book-digitization project.
Seven more banks have been closed by regulators as mortgage lenders suffer plummeting real-estate prices that will likely cause more banks to close in the future.