Executive Magazine
A crash course on currency boards and the peg system with Professor Steve Hanke
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With Lebanon going through hyperinflation, some economists have deemed
the establishment of a currency board (CB) necessary to help curb inflation. To
better assess the possible establishment of a CB, and its probable effect on
the Lebanese monetary situation, Executive Magazine talked to Steve Hanke,
professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University and one of the
world’s leading experts on hyperinflation and exchange-rate systems,
particularly CBs and dollarized systems. Professor Hanke is the architect of CB
systems installed in Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
This 36-Year-Old HBCU Grad is the First Black Woman Chief Labor Economist for DOL
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Janelle Jones is the first Black woman to serve as the Chief Labor Economist for the Department of Labor. The Biden administration appointed the 36-year-old Spelman graduate to lead the labor department’s research and initiatives.
“I’m very excited to announce I have joined the Biden Administration as the Chief Economist at DOL,” Jones tweeted in January. “I am excited to help build back a better economy where workers, especially those usually left behind, are safe, secure, & empowered at the workplace. Let’s get to work!”
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For the umpteenth time, Bandits visited their dastardly act this time on Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, Niger State, kidnapping 27 students and 15 others, killing one and leaving in their wake, blood, sorrow and tears as families have been left devastated. This was only the latest in a series of similar nasty incidents, in the North East and North Central parts of the country. Thankfully, the passengers who were kidnapped from Rafi Local Government, also in Niger State, a few days before the Kagara incident, have been released. The Bandits are gradually extending their ignoble and bloody reign of terror, to as many parts of the country as possible. Like a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association said, ‘Nigeria is in a low grade war’. Does the Federal Government have the will, strategy and logistics to win this war? Jide Ojo, Emmanuel Onwubiko and Dr Sam Amadi take on the complex issues in this national malaise, and proffer viable solutions to fight it
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