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• Lessons From the Mortgage Market Meltdown: U.S. Monetary Policy Forum Releases 2008 Report

  - 2008-02-29

  CHICAGO & WALTHAM, Mass. -- The U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, an annual conference that brings together academics, market economists and Federal Reserve policymakers to discuss U.S. monetary policy, today released its 2008 report on matters confronting the Federal Open Market Committee FOMC. The report, entitled "Leveraged Losses: Lessons from...

  Tags: economist, FINANCE, financial, mortgage, U.S., University of Chicago

• The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual

  - 2007-11-01

  THE U.S. ARMY/MARINE CORPS COUNTERINSURGENCY FIELD MANUAL, forewords by General David H. Petraeus, Lieutenant General James F. Amos, and Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl, introduction by Sarah Sewall, The University of Chicago Press, IL, 2007, 473 pages, $15.00. Why should anyone pay for a copy of Field Manual FM...

  Tags: Leadership, MARKETING, U.S., University of Chicago

• Two students come to Moseley Braun's.(News)

  - 2007-04-29

  Byline: Rob Olmstead Daily Herald Staff Writer Students thwart Robbery of former senator An attempted robbery of former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun was stopped by a pair of college students in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood early Sunday. Moseley...

  Tags: attack, Chicago, knife, SECURITY, Sen., senator, U.S., University of Chicago

• A Better Way of Building?

  - 2007-01-01

  A Better Way of Building? One man takes on the contruction industry Barry B. LePatner Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry The University of Chicago Press, 2007Early in Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets, Barry LePatner presents a hall of shame of massive construction projects gone awry,...

  Tags: Strategy, U.S., University of Chicago

• Milton Friedman, Noted Economist, Nobel Laureate, and Hoover Senior Fellow, Dies at 94

  - 2006-11-16

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1977, died this morning. He was 94. Friedman also had the distinction of being the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the...

  Tags: economist, Government, president, Rose, theory, U.S., University of Chicago

• Klan Leader Praises Harvard Professors' Essay on Israel Lobby.

  - 2006-04-07

  By the Chicago Tribune & the Financial Times The Associated Press reported Thursday that KKK leader and former U.S. Congressman David Duke's praise that an essay by two Harvard and University of Chicago professors 'validates' the position that Israel lobbies help control media and...

  Tags: essay, Government, Harvard University, Israel, leader, professor, U.S., University of Chicago

• The San Diego Union-Tribune business people column.

  - 2004-07-13

  The San Diego Union-Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 13--THOMAS J.W. VOSS has been named resident manager for the Manchester Grand Hyatt. Voss was previously general manager at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta. HULL MCGUIRE has added DORN G. BISHOP as of...

  Tags: chemistry, E-mail, Fax, U.S., University of Chicago

• Start-up firm created to offer diamond coatings.(Coatings)

  - 2003-12-01

  A diamond coating developed at Argonne National Laboratories, USA, is to be commercialized by a small start-up company called Advanced Diamond Technologies ADT. The company is partly owned by Argonne and by the University of Chicago. Designated Ultrananocrystalline Diamond UNCD, the nanoscale synthetic...

  Tags: FINANCE, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Investment, Semiconductors, U.S., University of Chicago

• North American urban history: the everyday politics and spatial logics of metropolitan life.

  - 2003-09-22

  Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, North American urban history is flourishing. Compared to twenty-five years ago, the field has become more interdisciplinary and intellectually invigorating. Scholars are publishing increasingly sophisticated efforts to understand how the city as space intersects the...

  Tags: Baltimore, Cambridge, Canada, Chicago, environment, M., Mary, North, Richard, Robert, scholar, scholarship, Silver, U.S., University of Chicago, women

• 'PASSIVE not STUPID'.(Face to Face)

  - 2003-09-01

  Byline: Arleen Jacobius If you want to bring a smile to his face, ask David G. Booth about the less-than-conventional investment strategies of Dimensional Fund Advisors, the money management firm he co-founded. A former teaching assistant for Professor Eugene F. Fama at the University...

  Tags: asset, equity, FINANCE, Investment, professor, stock, U.S., University of Chicago