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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Ghosts of bankruptcy’s past haunt bills to address J&J, Purdue
According to David Skeel of Penn Carey Law, there’s a growing perception that insider dominance is leading to abuses in the bankruptcy system.
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Here’s why mortgage rates dropped to their lowest level in more than a year
Lu Liu of the Wharton School says that treasury rates have already incorporated expectations for future interest rate cuts because mortgage rates are priced off current treasury rates.
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What the Supreme Court left unsaid about Trump’s criminal immunity
Kate Shaw of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court’s ruling about Donald Trump’s presidential immunity is wrong as a matter of constitutional theory and doesn’t provide anything resembling an administrable test.
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You’ve lost weight taking new obesity drugs. What happens if you stop?
Mitchell A. Lazar of the Perelman School of Medicine says that there’s no “magic bullet” for lowering the dosage of weight-loss medication while keeping the weight off.
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Jeremy Siegel backs off on calls for the Fed to do an emergency interest rate cut
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve should move its key interest rate down to 4% as fast as possible.
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Whose Christianity do Christian nationalists want?
In an opinion essay, Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the religious right is attempting to establish a monolithic “Christian supremacy” that has never existed in the United States.
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Dementia may not be as common among Parkinson’s patients as thought
A study by Daniel Weintraub of the Perelman School of Medicine suggests that dementia is not inevitable with Parkinson’s and is actually less common than presumed.
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The bad politics of bad posture
In her book “Slouch,” Beth Linker of the School of Arts & Sciences outlines how societal pressures have driven huge swaths of people to embrace falsehoods about posture.
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Are we happy yet?
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences says that thinking about life through the lens of moment-to-moment moods is a recipe for depression and anxiety.
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Fed rate is ‘far too high’ and needs to come down quickly, Jeremy Siegel says
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve is in danger of making another policy mistake by being too cautious.