Tag: economics

Xin Xu, executive director of China and Asia Pacific studies at Cornell University, discussed the rise of China and how the nation is on track to overtake the United States as the global economy leader by the end of the decade.

Robert Rubin, former secretary of the treasury and president for economic policy and director of the National Economic Council, was the annual Bhutto-Ispahami Lecturer. Rubin shared his predictions for the U.S. economic and political future April 25 in the Campus Center.

Mark Jebbia and the game of baseball were meant to be together. He eats, breathes and sleeps baseball. When he is not playing, he is either reading about it, watching it or looking up videos on YouTube about it because “ball is life.” Well, more like baseball is.

American economist, historian and political scientist Richard Rosencrance proposed differentiating economic industries with China to avoid a potential war in his lecture “The Next Great War? The Root of World War I and the Risk of U.S.-China Conflict,” April 30 in the Campus Center Ballroom.

Nyema Guannu, adjunct professor of economics, is never one to shy away from an opportunity.

On Feb. 22, the Obama administration finally took steps to rein in predatory practices by banks and credit card companies. Did they go far enough? Probably not.