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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School said reports of senior officials at the Federal Reserve profiting on trades are a “calamity and a scandal” and that he’d support a ban on Fed officials holding individual stocks. “I think central bankers should never be under a cloud of suspicion that they’re advocating for policies that will enrich them,” Conti-Brown said.
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Eric Feldman of the Law School spoke about Rutgers University’s requirement that all students be vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to campus. “Rutgers is on fairly solid ground, and we’re likely to see a good number of universities, both public and private, start to mandate the vaccine,” he said.
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Anthony Rostain of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed how challenging it can be for parents to cope with their children leaving for college. “If you’re really unhappy or scared about it, then you have to check in and ask yourself why you’re feeling that way,” he said. “Is it your kid, the school, or something in you that’s not ready? It may simply be a matter of how ready you are as a parent to let go.”
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The Wharton School’s Susan Wachter discussed the decrease in existing home sales in the U.S. “It absolutely is a reaction to the higher interest rates and mortgage rates in 2019 … But there’s another force which is persistent, and that is that housing simply has become unaffordable across the board, and that’s likely to continue into 2019, so it is a concern.”
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Jonathan Baron of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan and says, “Good leaders engage in actively open-minded thinking.”
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Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that elections do not have as much of an impact on the stock market and economy as investors expect.
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Jonah Berger of the Wharton School talks about his new book, Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior.
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Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School shares his thoughts on the Federal Reserve prior to its first press conference of the year.
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Pinar Yildrim and graduate student Yanhao Wei of the Wharton School are cited for co-authoring a paper on social network scoring.
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Dean Geoffrey Garrett of the Wharton School is quoted about tech companies, saying, “We see the front end which is the app, but typically we don’t see what’s sitting behind that which is a lot of data analytics, and I really think that’s Wharton’s sweet spot.”