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Jeffrey Sachs: Why Obama's Failing On The Economy

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Keynesian Economics, Jeffrey Sachs, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, Economy, Federal Reserve, Consumer Spending, China Economy, Barack Obama, Fiscal Policy, Business News

The past week brought news of US double-digit unemployment and the Federal Reserve's decision to maintain near-zero interest rates. Both pieces of new...

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Jeffrey Sachs: US Policy Making Is a Bipartisan Failure, Failing to Even Acknowledge Environmental Challenges

Ryan Mickle | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Crowding Planet, Paul Krugman, Climate Change, Jeffrey Sachs, World Business Forum, Green News
Ryan Mickle

Jeffrey Sachs pulled a fire alarm on the optimism on leadership in business and opportunities abroad with his perspectives on the bipartisan failure of US policy and the world's risk of ecological bankruptcy.

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Maryland's Commitment to Advancing Stem Cell Research

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Milken Institute, Governor Martin O'Malley, Jeffrey Sachs, Martin O'Malley, Maryland, Jobs, Science, Biotech, Barack Obama, California, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Care Reform, Stem Cell Research, Technology, Medicine, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Gov. Martin O'Malley

Last week, we announced that Maryland was entering into a new partnership with the State of California to collaborate on stem cell projects.

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Sustainable Results: Addressing Misconceptions About The Millennium Villages Project

Donald Ndahiro | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Foreign Aid, Tourism, Jeffrey Sachs, Africa, Millennium Villages, Entrepreneurship, World News
Donald Ndahiro

The project has achieved its goal of sustainably reducing poverty in the community, and on that foundation of stability, the community has begun real prosperity-creation projects.

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Will US Army's Development Delusions Cause More Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan?

William Easterly | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Jeffrey Sachs, Department of Defense, Conflict, Afghanistan, Paul Collier, Failed State, US Army, Development, World News
William Easterly

More in sorrow than in anger, I see that this utopian social engineering craze could encourage people with guns to use them.

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Jeffrey Sachs' Misguided Foreign Aid Efforts

Magatte Wade | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Millennium Villages, Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Entrepreneurship, Dambisa Moyo, Humanitarian Aid, Africa, World News
Magatte Wade

Poverty in Africa will be eliminated not by aid, but by entrepreneurial job creation, by real entrepreneurs creating scalable enterprises that will ultimately create millions of jobs.

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The Academic Man's Burden

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Jeffrey Sachs, Business School, Marshall Plan, Bill Easterly, Economics, Economy, Subsaharan Africa, Bretton Woods, Paul Collier, United Nations, League of Nations, Academia, Politics News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Academics are laggards, eternal followers that lack the ability to innovate and continue to inhabit a world of quantitative models oftentimes not descriptive of today's reality.

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Words Apart

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Millenium-Challenge-Corporation, Usaid, Jeffrey Sachs, Bill Easterly, Microfinance, Branko Milanovic, Malagasy-Red-Cross, Hernando De Soto, Financial Crisis, Muhammad Yunus, Business News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Microfinance's intellectual debate could be healthy but it oftentimes ends up in intellectual wars that forsake the ultimate goal: the alleviation of extreme poverty.

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Sachsterly

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, Economics, John Maynard Keynes, Marshall Plan, Microfinance, Bill Easterly, Global Poverty, Dambisa Moyo, World News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

The rescue of the bottom billion is only a reality if Mr. Sachs and Mr. Easterly put their outstanding intellectual skills to work instead of trying to win a debate that academics will perpetuate so long as they exist.

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The Sachs-Moyo-Easterly Aid Debate: An Activist's Perspective

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Michael Gerson, Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Africa, William Easterly, ONE Campaign, Dambisa Moyo, Matt Charman, Poverty, World News
Kristi York Wooten

Go ahead and call me a misguided Westerner if you like, or even a bleeding heart; I much prefer those titles to "bystander" -- innocent or not.

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Back to Sachs: Astrology, Despotism, and Africa

William Easterly | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Jeffrey Sachs, Geography, Poverty, Economics, Health, Africa, Democracy, Bill Easterly, Fighting Malaria, World News
William Easterly

Calling 63 countries "potentially well governed" is like saying Paris Hilton is potentially a virgin; ignoring bad government is a formula for the same kind of bad aid policy that produced decades of failure.

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Geography Lessons: Correcting Sachs on African Economic Development

William Easterly | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Foreign Aid, Africa, Dambisa Moyo, Third World Countries, Latin America, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, HIV/AIDS Africa, Mosquitoes, World News
William Easterly

Sachs is an inspirational and hard-working intellectual, just one whose ideas on Africa happen to be sometimes totally wrong, and other times only seriously wrong.

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Aid Ironies: A Response to Jeffrey Sachs

Dambisa Moyo | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Dead Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Aid to Africa, Dambisa Moyo, Africa, Moyo, Aid Ironies: A Response to Jeffrey Sachs, Dambisa Moyo and Huffington Post, World News
Dambisa Moyo

The aid interventions that Mr. Sachs lauds as evidence of success are merely band aid solutions that do nothing to lift Africa out of the mire -- leaving the continent alive but half drowning.

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Sachs Ironies: Why Critics are Better for Foreign Aid than Apologists

William Easterly | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Foriegn Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Aid to Africa, Dambisa Moyo, Africa, World News
William Easterly

Jeffrey Sachs, the world's leading apologist and fundraiser for the aid establishment, has written a ferocious personal attack on me in his HuffPost blog, "Aid Ironies." Allow me to defend myself.

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John Legend and Jeffrey Sachs: Philanthropy's New BFFs

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John Legend, Donating to Charity, Donating, Philanthropy, Jeffrey Sachs, Charity, Celebrity-Charity, Celebrities, New York-New York, Entertainment News
Kristi York Wooten

A philanthropist is a philanthropist, no matter the level of his fame or whether his contribution is monetary, artistic, or simply a PowerPoint grid of ideas about how to save the world.

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Sam Stein

Geithner Bank Plan Faces New Wave Of Criticism

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Toxic Assets Geithner, Geithner's Plan, Geithner Assets, Geithner Plan, Mark Thoma, Jame Galbraith, Economist Geithner, Bank Assets, Rob Shapiro, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Timothy Geithner, Geithner Bank Plan, Dean Baker, Politics News

Two weeks after being introduced, Timothy Geithner's bank rescue plan is facing a new round of withering criticism from economists who say the proposa...

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The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Toxic Assets, Larry Summers, Obama Stimulus Plan, Timothy Geithner, Geithner Summers Bank Plan, Geithner Summers Task Force, Larry Summers Geithner, Geithner Summers, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Tim Geithner, Bank Bailout, Geithner Summers Obama, Citibank, Geithner Plan, Geithner, Jeffrey Sachs, Business News
Jeffrey Sachs

Geithner and Summers tell us that their plan is the only option, but without a word of further explanation as to why. Let them explain to America why the other proposals are not being pursued.

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"Stop Doing Dumb Things!" Ted Turner on GM, CNN, at Columbia Climate Center Launch

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Jeffrey Sachs, Climate Change, Columbia University, Ted Turner, Green News
Alex Pasternack

"We need stop doing dumb things and start doing smart things. To use a baseball analogy, humanity is in the seventh inning and down by two runs."

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Jeffrey Sachs: Obama's Bank Plan Could Rob The Taxpayer

Financial Times | Posted 04.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Geithner Summers, Bank Rescue Plan, Geithner Summers Bank Plan, Sachs on Bank Plan, Financial Crisis, Jeffrey Sachs, Home News

T he Geithner-Summers plan, officially called the public/private investment programme, is a thinly veiled attempt to transfer up to hundreds of bill...

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What European Fiscal Austerity Is Doing To The U.S.

Harry Moroz | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Full House, Europe, James Surowiecki, Germany, Jeffrey Sachs, National Review, President Obama, Helicopter Drop, Merkel, Stimulus, Sustainability, G-20, Wall Street Journal, France, American Enterprise Institute, New Yorker, Sarkozy, The Corner, Classical Liberals, Charles Murray, Socialists, Business News
Harry Moroz

As the G-20 meeting of the world's 20 biggest economies approaches, the right is cultivating a strategic relationship with the "reformed socialists" o...

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Corporate Government Reform

Harry Moroz | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Jeffrey Sachs, Aig Bonuses, The Economist, New Democrats, Spending, Bonuses, Taxation, Congress, Government, Blue Dog Democrats, Hendrik Hertzberg, Business News
Harry Moroz

Debate about the House tax bill and about earmarks is a striking reminder to us that governance in this country is at risk of going off track.

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Saving the Banks

Alan Schram | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Dollar, Money Market Funds, Fdic, Jeffrey Sachs, Wall Street, Banks, Business News, Credit Crunch, Bank Deposits, Libor, Saving Money, Geithner, Tarp, S&P 500, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

Housing prices have to fall because they have been inflated for years, but they will ultimately reach an economic equilibrium. When that is accomplished, the financial system will recover.

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Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Penny Pritzker, Adam Posen, Alan Murray, James Galbraith, George Soros, Doug & Heidi Rediker, Leo Hindery, Eric Schmidt, Richard Parsons, Tom Gallagher, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Economic Team, Warren Buffet, Kevin Phillips, William Daley, William Donaldson, Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Samuelson, Paul Krugman, Roel Campos, William Bonvillian, Jeffrey Sachs, C. Fred Bergsten, Robert Reich, Antonio Villaraigosa, Joseph Biden, Charlene Barshefsky, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Robert Rubin, Austan Goolsbee, David Bonior, Economic Policy, Rahm Emanuel, Bernard Schwartz, Jason Furhman, Sheila Bair, Anne Mulcahy, Roger Ferguson, Clyde Prestowitz, Sherle Schwenninger, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

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Monocle Presents Its Dream Cabinet

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Steve Jobs, Mickey Drexler, Jeffrey Sachs, Samantha Power, Russell Simmons, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Holbrooke, Amory Lovins, Monocle Dream Cabinet, Indra Nooyi, Tyler Brule, Monocle, Media News

Monocle, the international briefing on current affairs, recently put together its recommendations for the next President's ideal cabinet. In a vide...

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Jeffrey Sachs Wants To Change The Economy And Save The World

Grist | Amanda Griscom Little | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Huffpost Books, Economy, Books, Green Economy, Sustainable Economy, World Economy, Poverty, Sustainability, Green News

Jeffrey Sachs -- the renowned economist who devised a grand plan in 2005 to rid the world of poverty -- is now focused on an even broader ambition: sa...

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