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BusinessWeek July 30, 2009 Amy S. Choi |
Why Small Biz Is Skittish About Health-Care Reform Despite a charm offensive by Obama, health-care proposals leave entrepreneurs wary |
BusinessWeek June 24, 2010 Paula Dwyer |
Behave Yourself The Obama Administration is weighing rules that rely on the emerging field of behavioral economics. The idea: By giving consumers more information (or simplifying their choices), they can be led in directions the government favors |
BusinessWeek April 8, 2010 Mike Dorning |
Why the Obama Plan Is Working Polls say the economy is heading in the wrong direction. Markets say it's back on track. This time, the markets are right. |
BusinessWeek September 23, 2010 Paula Dwyer |
How Obama Is Getting Ready for 2011 With a likely Republican-controlled House, the President is working on triangulation, revising his team and policy agenda. |
BusinessWeek July 21, 2010 Kate Andersen Brower |
Big Business Takes on Obama The high jobless rate provokes a fight between corporate America and the White House over regulations, taxes, and trade. |
BusinessWeek June 17, 2009 Catherine Arnst |
Why the AMA Will Likely Support Health-Care Reform Obama's plan might lower specialists' pay, but it would help primary-care doctors, save the industry billions, and please voters. |
Food Processing October 2012 Susan Ruland |
Election Pains or Gains? How will the food industry fare depending on whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins on November 6th? |
BusinessWeek January 21, 2010 Jane Sasseen |
Taxes: Ready to Rumble How Obama will target business, and how business will fight back |
BusinessWeek July 29, 2009 Jane Sasseen |
Obama: What Business Thinks Top U.S. executives say President Obama has been accessible and willing to listen, but they wonder whether he is heeding their advice |
BusinessWeek January 21, 2010 |
The Washington Power Grid Here are profiles of several of the Obama Administration's low-profile, highly influential players. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Jeremy Clift |
Questioning a Chastened Priesthood A profile of psychologist Daniel Kahneman about the psychological research of economic science. |
Wired September 22, 2008 Ian Mount |
David Laibson: Tweak Human Behavior to Fix the Economy David Laibson, a behavioral economist at Harvard, says many of our problems can be fixed relatively simply. |
BusinessWeek September 9, 2009 Jane Sasseen |
Obama's Woes Are Emboldening Lobbyists The President's health-care troubles are giving lobbyists the confidence to go after a bigger swath of his agenda. |
Reason October 2008 Will Wilkinson |
Why Opting Out Is No "Third Way" Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, is about the perplexing banality of "libertarian paternalism." |
HBS Working Knowledge December 1, 2011 |
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy? Jim Heskett explores the argument for a more deliberative approach to problem solving offered up in the new Daniel Kahneman book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. |
BusinessWeek October 6, 2010 Julianna Goldman et al. |
Obama Wants a Detente with Business Once the midterm elections are over, the President plans to make up with business. |
Insurance & Technology June 17, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurance Industry Reacts to President's Financial Service Regulation Reform Proposals President Obama's proposals include enhanced oversight of the insurance sector and the establishment of an Office of National Insurance. |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Maria Bartiromo |
Summers on Obama's New Financial Regulations Larry Summers is adamant that the reforms will result in more economic stability and, ultimately, a more enduring prosperity. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan |
A Look at the Hill and Beyond Steve Bartlett, head of a financial services lobbying group, talks about political gyrations in Congress and the concerns all banks ought to be having about the impact of banking reform on the U.S. economy. |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2009 |
The White House Wants to Hear From Fools The Motley Fool was selected by the White House to sit down with a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors on Tuesday to discuss the proposal. |
BusinessWeek December 29, 2010 Peter Coy |
Commentary: The Health-Care Act on Trial The health-care insurance mandate isn't a ploy to expand Congress' power. It's a way to address unique problems. |
BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 Heidi Przybyla |
Social Security Gets a Reprieve--for Now Obama may put off Social Security reform until a hoped-for second term, unless Republicans take the initiative. |
Investment Advisor October 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Planning: Obama's Retirement Plan The Obama administration's plan to help Americans save more for retirement promotes small plan IRAs and putting tax refunds into savings bonds. |
BusinessWeek November 4, 2009 Jane Sasseen |
Health-Care Reform's Hidden Taxes Why a lot of health reform's costs could be borne by the middle class, despite Obama's pledges. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Alex Wayne |
The GOP Eyes Defunding Health Reform The House Republican plan to deny funds to Obama's health overhaul could be difficult and risky. |
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Nichols & Goldman |
Who Might Be Headed Out of the White House A handicapper's guide to departures from the White House, based on interviews with top Administration officials and their associates. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
The Pioneer Richard Thaler, now a professor at the University of Chicago, along with cognitive psychologists Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky, pioneered and shaped the field of behavioral economics thirty years ago. |
BusinessWeek January 13, 2011 Alex Nussbaum |
High-Risk Insurance Pools: A Shaky Debut Low enrollment in government-funded insurance programs aimed at sick patients has emboldened GOP critics of health-care reform. |
On Wall Street December 1, 2008 Cheyenne Hopkins |
The Obama Agenda: Reforming Regulation The fight for the presidency is over, but the battle over the future of financial services has just begun. |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 John Berlau |
Overregulation Plan Won't Fix Financial Crisis Initial reports indicate that these early hopes of a more accountable regulatory structure from the Obama administration have been dashed. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2010 Nussbaum et al. |
Obamacare's Cost Scalpel How does the health-care overhaul propose to control spending? By evaluating treatments through "comparative effectiveness research" |
BusinessWeek July 29, 2010 Woellert & Vekshin |
A Would-Be Watchdog Woos the Opposition Elizabeth Warren reaches out to lobbyists and Republicans. |
Reason November 2008 Mangu-Ward et al. |
Is There Any Hope For This Man? Assessments of Barack Obama from several libertarians. |
BusinessWeek January 20, 2010 Albert R. Hunt |
The Democrats' Long Road Back from Massachusetts After Republican Scott Brown's stunning upset, the best President Obama and his party can hope for may be a watered-down health bill with insurance reforms. |
BusinessWeek January 13, 2011 Albert R. Hunt et al. |
Tax Reform Is in the Eye of the Beholder Obama wants any tax overhaul to trim the deficit or be revenue neutral. |
BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 Devin Leonard |
Obama and the Chamber Start Over Why is the President suddenly blowing kisses at the Chamber of Commerce's Tom Donahue? |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Health-Care Reform Lives: Here's Where to Invest State of the Union turned investment thesis regarding health insurance companies. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 6, 2009 Jim Heskett |
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World? It is becoming clear that human behavior is much less rational than we assumed. What does this mean for conventional wisdom in areas such as management? |
Chemistry World August 29, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Presidential candidates search for the right chemistry As the US prepares for a presidential election on 6 November, science and research groups appear to backing the current incumbent President Barack Obama. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 16, 2006 Ann Cullen |
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist? An interview with Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf about her research on how Adam Smith's 1759 work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, presages the emerging field of behavioral economics. |
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 |
"Economists Suffer from Physics Envy" In search of a better economics theory, MIT's Andrew Lo says evolutionary dynamics could shed light on why investors behave as they do |
BusinessWeek January 15, 2009 Carey & Francis |
A New Era of Regulation New government controls across a wide swath of industries are on the way. |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2009 Sasseen & Arnst |
Who Picks Up the Tab for Health Reform Insurers and taxpayers are likely to pay big chunks of the $900 billion bill to overhaul the nation's health-care system. Doctors will feel the least pain. |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Paul M. Barrett |
Attack of the Commerce Clause A new assault on regulation is gathering force -- and it's deploying a constitutional weapon |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Kate Andersen Brower |
Sarah Palin Stews Over Government Food Rules Sarah Palin appears to be siding with food companies, and against Michelle Obama, over government nutrition policy. |
BusinessWeek August 6, 2009 |
Health Reform: A Timeline The latest battle over how to overhaul the U.S. health-care system intensified last fall with the election of Barack Obama. |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Why Didn't Enforcement Work? The White House asked for feedback from the Motley Fool community and agreed to answer questions. Here is the second part of our interview with one of President Obama's chief economists. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2007 Mary Dalrymple |
Retirement and Irrational Man, Part 2 If you've stuck with the default options in your 401(k) because you were automatically enrolled in the savings plan, it's time to take a look at your contributions and investments. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2011 Kevin Wack |
Big Banks Shift Campaign Cash Away from Obama In 2012 So far in the 2012 race, the six largest U.S. banks have switched sides in a dramatic way since 2008, giving far more money to GOP hopeful Mitt Romney than they are to the sitting president. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Is Behavioral Finance a Growth Industry? The subdiscipline of behavioral finance has gained ground over the last half-decade. The idea is simple: Investors are not as rational as traditional theory has assumed, and biases in their decision-making can have a cumulative effect on asset prices... |