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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics. government securities to keep interest rates down — in the process generating lots of monetary stimulus — and kept dictating monetary policy after the war. History has not judged his tenure well.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

Sweeping reforms by Wall Street and the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) are needed, forcing firms to separate their investment banking business from their stock advisory business. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. And the notion that you could calibrate monetary policy to suppress a boom against the human nature bubbling up has no factual basis.