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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. Gilbert did, can end up as president of the Dallas Fed (although who knows, maybe Tumblr founder David Karp has a shot). History has not judged his tenure well.

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There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

They''ve also been troubled, and Cleveland even defaulted on some bank loans in the late 1970s. Policy innovation. The downtown Detroit boomlet is to a remarkable extent the work of one wealthy risk-taker, Quicken Loans chairman and co-founder Dan Gilbert. Louis — suffered population drops similar to Detroit''s.