“There’s a balance to strike here. The FDIC wants to maintain confidence in markets, but how much they go beyond their statutory duties is certainly the question of the hour,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy.
Professor of Law Robert Hockett provides an alternative view of the Silicon Valley Bank model, saying that a specialized bank could be considered “as a kind of credit union for the tech industry.”
Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor at the ILR School, says, “the kind of follow-up that BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] used to do to sustain participation is much harder when people are working from home.”
“I think it's overreaction to problems that a lot of younger people are seeing in our culture,” says Jordan Cooper, adjunct professor of systematic theology.
Roger Gilbert, professor of English says, “I plan to use her on almost all my correspondence from now on. I do have stamps with other people I admire and I don’t want to neglect them, but for now at least, she will be my go-to stamp.”
“Efforts to reduce Beijing’s sense of urgency over Taiwan could help limit the degree of China-Russia alignment, strengthening the overall U.S. strategic position,” says A&S and Brooks School Professor Jessica Chen Weiss. “And Taiwan needs more time to muster the resources and political will to develop an asymmetric, whole-of-society defense.”
This article discusses how the pandemic lockdown led to the growth of birdwatching. It notes that the Merlin app by the Lab of Ornithology saw a significant increase in downloads, and the lab's bird cams doubled in April and May 2020.
“There may be some small role in truly green hydrogen in a decarbonised future, but this is largely a marketing creation by the oil and gas industry that has been hugely overhyped,” says Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, associate professor of information science, discusses an AI tool created to alert a user when conversations through text messages become tense.
“Managers are under so much pressure to deliver earnings that they’re using a lot more accounting than they have in the past to make their earnings look good,” says Sanjeev Bhojraj, professor of asset management and accounting. “If my dollar of earnings has no cash or negative cash, that’s poor quality because all the earnings that I have are just accounting.”