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How Leverage Turns Market Corrections into Crashes?
Leverage-induced fire sales, in which highly-leveraged investors are forced to sell more and more because prices are falling, can turn stock market corrections into economy-damaging crashes.
Some Unfortunate Truths about Trade
The troublesome relationship between tariffs, trade deficits and the tenuous economic recovery
How Greentown Labs Became the Epicenter of Clean Tech
The incubator’s winding journey to success helped its startup community grow closer while addressing environmental challenges
Social Robots are Coming to a Hospital Near You – Not Necessarily as a Doctor
Interacting with a robotic teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients’ positive emotions, engagement, and activity level
How to Spur Capital Spending: Plan for Failure
Companies might invest more in new ventures if they could see in advance how to redeploy the assets if things don’t pan out
Can Civics Education Repair a Failing Democracy?
Why is the United States paralyzed by polarization and distrust of government? Louise Dubé ’88 of the nonprofit iCivics argues that engagement in civic life requires skills that many schools no longer teach
Berkeley Talks: Virgie Tovar on Ending Fat Phobia
Virgie Tovar is an author, an activist, and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on body image, fat discrimination and breaking up with diet culture
Macron and French resistance: Economic growth and labor policy
Politics is a game of vision, persuasion and resilience. In his second year, Macron has a long road ahead.
Drag – Drop – Data : Unleashing of the Next Generation of Data Analytics
For years, researchers from MIT and Brown University have been developing an interactive system that lets users drag-and-drop and manipulate data on any touchscreen
Never Mind the 1 Percent. Let’s talk About the 0.01 Percent
Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer
Scientists Scramble to Build Payload for 2021 Moon Landing
Scavenging spare parts and grabbing off-the-shelf hardware, University of California, Berkeley, space scientists are in a sprint to build scientific instruments
A New Way to Make Droplets Bounce Away
Engineers design surfaces that send rain flying away, potentially preventing icing or soaking.
