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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School said the Federal Reserve’s inflation-curbing measures could lead to a 20% decline in the Nasdaq 100 from the November record. “I don’t think the pain is over yet,” he said.
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Ethan Craig of the Perelman School of Medicine said the pandemic’s end will be gradual. “There will be no banners flying in the street, no parade, no V-J Day in Times Square moments,” he said. “Rather, it will end with a critical mass of small lurches toward normalcy, made by each and every one of us, one small decision at a time.”
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Holly Fernandez Lynch of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the obstacles preventing less-privileged people from participating in clinical trials. “You typically have to live near the trial site or have the resources to travel. You have to be able to take time away from work and your caregivers need to do the same. You have to have reliable transportation,” she said.
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Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences said it’s “striking” that so many Democrats are running for Pennsylvania’s Senate while “Josh Shapiro has the gubernatorial primary on the Democratic side all to himself.”
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Cary Coglianese of the Law School argued that people deserve to be listened to by real humans when faced with life-altering decisions, even amid the rise of automation in government agencies. “The public’s need for empathy, though, does not mean that government should avoid automation,” he wrote. “If planned well, the transition to an automated state could, surprisingly, make interacting with government more humane, not less.”
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Kim Ferzan of the Law School weighed in on the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two people at a Black Lives Matter protest last year. “We need to think seriously about whether citizens should be entitled to go on the offense in our name—to bring weapons and seek to enforce laws—when we know that such actions may themselves be the trigger of violence and death,” said Ferzan.
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A fall 2020 semester studio at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design led by Billy Fleming explored ways to transform prisons and correctional facilities in Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, such as turning the structures into community spaces or solar and wind farms. “There are so many disenfranchised places in the United States sold on the promise of prisons as economic development who’ve seen what a spectacular failure that is,” Fleming said.
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Steve Viscelli of the School of Arts & Sciences said the U.S. supply chain is built on unpaid labor by port truckers waiting to pick up cargo from shipping containers. “The port truck driver, for decades now, has basically been the slack adjuster in the whole system,” he said.
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Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School said Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell was remarkably quick to address an ethics scandal at the Fed. “I would hope those who oppose Jay Powell fight him vociferously on the merits,” he said. “I don’t think his trading or management to this process are disqualifying. The Fed is holding itself to a higher standard than the standard held for those critical politicians.”
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Hanming Fang of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about China’s pension system, saying that because the plans are managed by local governments, the system is vulnerable to regional wage disparities.