How Should We Think About Full Employment In The Federal Reserve s Dual Mandate? Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard - At The Ec10, Principles Of Economics, Lecture, Faculty Of Arts And Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Via Webcast) Date 24/02/2021 I want to thank Jason Furman and David Laibson for inviting me to join your economics class. I often found it difficult in introductory economics to connect the abstract concepts in the textbooks to the real-world issues I cared about. So the one message I hope you remember from today is that economics provides powerful tools to enable you to analyze and affect the issues that matter most to you.1
âMankâ Is Fake News About Fake News But by inventing a plot point in his biopic about Herman J. Mankiewicz, David Fincher creates an inadvertent truth about our political moment. Expand Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) and his assistant (Lily Collins) enjoy a beverage in âMank.â Central to the lore of classic Hollywood are tales of disconsolate screenwriters rendered cynical and self-loathing by the indignities that producers and studio moguls heaped upon them, and by their own failures to walk away because they were being paid too much to leave. From F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs The Last Tycoon to the Coen brothersâ
Formed 50 years ago, Congressional Black Caucus made presence felt by standing up to Nixon Keith Dunlap, Digital Content Team, Graham Media Group Published: Updated: Tags: MAY 25, 1971: Congressional Black Caucus Representatives George W. Collins (D-Ill.), Ronald V. Dellums (D-Calif.), Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), William L. Clay (D-Mo.), Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (D-Mich.), Augustus F. Hawkins (D-Calif.), Parren J. Mitchell (D-Md.), Walter Fauntroy (D-D.C.), Louis Stokes (D-Ohio), Ralph Metcalfe (D-Ill.) (Photo by Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress). (Getty Images) It didn’t take long for this group to make an impact. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Congressional Black Caucus, a nonpartisan group of Black members in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate that provides a voice and highlights issues prominent in the Black community.