8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (7)
#20582283 at 2024-03-17 19:51:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25243: Shall We Play A Game? LFG Edition
>>20582244
World.Minds is aClown Convention
The members of the advisory board include former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency David Petraeus, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Olympic Gold medalist Tenley Albright, Chairman of Hoffmann-La Roche Christoph Franz, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabi?, founder of 3G Capital Jorge Paulo Lemann, and former Supreme Allied Commander Europe Admiral James G. Stavridis, among others. In the past, former US secretary of State Henry Kissinger was also on the advisory board.
WORLD.MINDS has around 1000 members, including Nobel prize laureate Kurt Wuthrich, activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, President of the ETH Board Michael Hengartner, Airbus CTO Grazia Vittadini, philosopher John N. Gray of the London School of Economics, the rector of ETH Zurich Sarah Springman, director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Gerd Gigerenzer, writer and politician Matt Ridley, Indian artist Aparna Rao, American nuclear engineer and MIT board member Leslie Dewan, economist Paul Romer, investor and author Guy Spier, professor of bioethics at ETH Zurich and Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center Effy Vayena, neuroeconomist Ernst Fehr, experimental psychologist Roy Baumeister, investor and entrepreneur Daniel Aegerter, Stanford University professor of mechanical engineering Allison Okamura, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager, Harvard psychologist and happiness researcher Dan Gilbert, and Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath Benoit Mandelbrot, along with artists such as Ai Weiwei and US-Israeli architect and designer Neri Oxman.
The meetings are attended by around 400 guests each year, and WORLD.MINDS also holds regular in-depth meetings on specific issues, such as WORLD.MINDS MOBILITY in 2018 with a focus on the future of mobility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World.minds
#14903338 at 2021-11-02 02:21:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18852: Anons Own The Night Edition
>>14903299
>WH: 17 Nobel Prize Winning Economists Have Said Bidan's Plan Will Reduce Inflation"
The economists who signed the letter include Joseph Stiglitz, Peter Diamond, George Akerlof (who is married to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen), Sir Angus Deaton, Christopher Sims, Robert Engle, Edmund S. Phelps, Oliver Hart, Robert Solow, Daniel Kahneman, Eric S. Maskin, Paul Milgrom, Daniel McFadden, Paul Romer, Roger Myerson, William Sharpe and Robert Shiller
#10484436 at 2020-08-31 17:55:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13418: Kayleigh Presser: Democraps KEK Edition
New Trump pandemic adviser pushes controversial 'herd immunity' strategy, worrying public health officials
WASHINGTON - One of President Donald Trump's top medical advisers is urging the White House to embrace a controversial "herd immunity" strategy to combat the pandemic, which would entail allowing the coronavirus to spread through most of the population to quickly build resistance to the virus, while taking steps to protect those in nursing homes and other vulnerable populations, according to five people familiar with the discussions.
The administration has already begun to implement some policies along these lines, according to current and former officials as well as experts, particularly with regard to testing.
The approach's chief proponent is Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist from Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution, who joined the White House earlier this month as a pandemic adviser. He has advocated that the United States adopt the model Sweden has used to respond to the virus outbreak, according to these officials, which relies on lifting restrictions so the healthy can build up immunity to the disease rather than limiting social and business interactions to prevent the virus from spreading.
Sweden's handling of the pandemic has been heavily criticized by public health officials and infectious-disease experts as reckless - the country has among the highest infection and death rates in the world. It also hasn't escaped the deep economic problems resulting from the pandemic.
But Sweden's approach has gained support among some conservatives who argue that social distancing restrictions are crushing the economy and infringing on people's liberties.
That this approach is even being discussed inside the White House is drawing concern from experts inside and outside the government who note that a herd immunity strategy could lead to the country suffering hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lost lives.
"The administration faces some pretty serious hurdles in making this argument. One is a lot of people will die, even if you can protect people in nursing homes," said Paul Romer, a professor at New York University who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2018. "Once it's out in the community, we've seen over and over again, it ends up spreading everywhere."
Atlas, who does not have a background in infectious diseases or epidemiology, has expanded his influence inside the White House by advocating policies that appeal to Trump's desire to move past the pandemic and get the economy going, distressing health officials on the White House coronavirus task force and throughout the administration who worry that their advice is being followed less and less.
Atlas declined an interview request. White House spokesman Judd Deere did not respond to specific questions for this story and instead said in a statement that Atlas is a "world renowned physician and scholar of advanced medical care and health care policy" and criticized the media for reporting on the topic.
White House officials said Trump has asked questions about herd immunity but has not formally embraced the strategy. The president, however, has made public comments that advocate a similar approach.
"We are aggressively sheltering those at highest risk, especially the elderly, while allowing lower-risk Americans to safely return to work and to school, and we want to see so many of those great states be open," he said during his address to the Republican National Convention Thursday night. "We want them to be open. They have to be open. They have to get back to work."
Atlas has fashioned himself as the "anti-Dr. Fauci," one senior administration official said, referring to Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease official, who has repeatedly been at odds with the president over his public comments about the threat posed by the virus. He has clashed with Fauci as well as Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, over the administration's pandemic response.
Atlas has argued both internally and in public that an increased case count will move the nation more quickly to herd immunity and won't lead to more deaths if the vulnerable are protected. But infectious-disease experts strongly dispute that, noting that more than 25,000 people younger than 65 have died of the virus in the United States. In addition, the United States has a higher number of vulnerable people of all ages because of high rates of heart and lung disease and obesity, and millions of vulnerable people live outside nursing homes - many in the same households with children, whom Atlas believes should return to school.
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/New-Trump-pandemic-adviser-pushes-controversial-15526711.php
#8145367 at 2020-02-15 16:19:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10427: Daytona 500 Beast Roll Authotized Edition
[they] are losing their funds
The World Bank loses another chief economist
WHEN AUTOCRATIC, oil-rich nations enjoy a windfall from higher crude prices, where does the money go? One place to look is Swiss bank accounts. Sure enough, an increase in oil prices is followed by a spike in deposits held by these countries in financial havens, according to a 2017 paper by Jorgen Juel Andersen of BI Norwegian Business School, Niels Johannesen of the University of Copenhagen and their co-authors.
When Mr Johannesen presented this result at the World Bank in 2015, the audience included Bob Rijkers, a member of the bank's research group. The two of them joined forces with Mr Andersen to investigate if something similar happened after another kind of windfall: infusions of aid from foreign donors. Their conclusion was dispiriting. World Bank payouts to 22 aid-dependent countries during 1990-2010 were followed by a jump in their deposits in foreign financial havens. The leaks averaged about 5% of the bank's aid to these countries.
Mr Rijkers is part of a unit that reports to the bank's chief economist, Pinelopi (Penny) Goldberg. The team publishes working papers on the understanding that their views do not represent the bank's. But Mr Rijkers's collaborative effort, which was leaked to The Economist, is not yet among them. It passed an exacting internal review by other researchers in November. But, according to informed sources, publication was blocked by higher officials. They may have been worried about how it would look if the bank's own researchers said that a chunk of its aid ended up in Swiss bank accounts and the like.
The bank insists a final decision on publication has not been made and that it still has legitimate concerns about the paper. A correlation between aid disbursements and offshore deposits is not proof of causation. And the 5% of "leaks" might include some innocent money, earned by aid contractors who just happen to prefer offshore havens to other financial centres. But the paper had already answered similar objections in the review process.
The integrity of the bank's research is meant to be safeguarded by its chief economist. The position is typically filled by a well-regarded academic, who has both an external reputation to protect and the internal clout to defend their turf. The job was, however, split in 2017 when Paul Romer, a star economist with little managerial finesse, was relieved of his bureaucratic duties. (He then left the job altogether after only 15 months in the role.) Ms Goldberg was given more managerial power than Mr Romer ended up with, but less than he started with.
This month she said she would be returning to Yale in March, after only 15 months in the job. Her reasons were unclear. A reorganisation of the bank may have been a factor, including the imminent arrival of Mari Pangestu, who will assume oversight of Ms Goldberg's unit, in an effort to align research more closely with the bank's country operations. Ms Goldberg may have come to feel that the position carried too much of a managerial burden, but too little power to rule her fief.
But it is also possible that the bank's decision to block one of her team's papers grated on her. After aid to a country spikes, money departs for offshore havens. And after a sensitive paper is spiked, Penny departs for New Haven. In both cases, correlation is easier to prove than causation.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/02/13/the-world-bank-loses-another-chief-economist
#8050425 at 2020-02-06 18:30:57 (UTC+1)
Qresearch General #10305: Celebrating Aquittal, Waiting for the Corn! Edition
From yesterday. Apologies if in Notables.
World Bank chief economist Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg announces resignation.
World Bank chief economist Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg on Wednesday announced she will be leaving the institution, according to a letter sent to colleagues and obtained by AFP. Calling it a "difficult decision," Goldberg wrote that she will step down from her post on March 1 to return to teaching at Yale University. "This has been a rewarding experience, to work with you on the issues that we care deeply about and ensure that development economics serves to create opportunities for the poor," she told her colleagues in the letter.
In a separate letter, World Bank President David Malpass said research director Aart Kraay would take over for Goldberg until a new permanent chief economist is hired. "I appreciated Penny's passion for building the institution's connection to state-of-the-art academic research and her commitment to drawing young talented economists to the bank, an effort that will continue beyond her departure," Malpass wrote. A Greek-American national, Goldberg took up her post at the end of April 2018, after the resignation of Paul Romer following a controversy over the World Bank's statistical methods.
https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/world-bank-chief-economist-pinelopi-koujianou-goldberg-announces-resignation/1858004/
#5989161 at 2019-03-31 10:07:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7660: Geeky MMT Theory Edition
>>5988490 lb
fuck mmt. modern monetary theory posits that money exists for the sole purpose of the government to tax. it justifies such measures as negative interest rates. think about that your bank sending you a bill for depositing money with them because mmt. it allows additional ways to cook the books that we have never seen. it's a banker/bureaucrats were dream.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-01-10/u-s-economy-modern-monetary-theory-bets-deficits-don-t-matter
as a tip if you see Paul Romer shilling it, think twice
#5675401 at 2019-03-14 09:05:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7258: Trust POTUS Edition
>>5674880
she's married to akerloff. I seriously thought it was Paul Romer. but both are economists that peddle similar shilliness
endchan qrbunker Posts (2)
#129641 at 2023-06-26 12:38:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #381: The Mysterious Case of NOTHING WRONG Edition
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1:05 AM EDT
After Words: Rebecca Grant, "Birth - Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America". Journalist Rebecca Grant reported on maternal healthcare in the U.S. & discussed how social & political dynamics impact pregnancy & motherhood. She was interviewed by New York Times reporter Alisha Gupta.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?526943-1/birth-mothers-months-pregnancy-america
2:00 AM EDT
Authors on Government Efficiency - Philip Howard, Jennifer Murtazashvili, Yuval Levin and Paul Romer. Philip Howard ("Not Accountable"), Jennifer Murtazashvili ("Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan"), Yuval Levin ("A Time to Build"), and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer talked about government bureaucracies and how to hold them accountable. This discussion was part of an all-day conference held at Columbia University in New York City.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527431-2/authors-government-efficiency-philip-howard-jennifer-murtazashvili-yuval-levin-Paul-Romer
3:02 AM EDT
SC 'Authors on Government Efficiency - Daniel DiSalvo, Troyen Brennan, Christian Madsbjerg, David Schizer and Diana Mend. Daniel DiSalvo ("Government Against Itself"), Troyen Brennan ("Just Doctoring"), Christian Madsbjerg ("Look"), David Schizer ("How to Save the World in Six (Not So Easy) Steps") and Diana Mendes (HNTB Corporation) talked about government bureaucracies and how to hold them accountable. This discussion was part of an all-day conference held at Columbia University in New York City.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527431-3/authors-government-efficiency-daniel-disalvo-troyen-brennan-christian-madsbjerg-david-schizer
3:30 AM EDT
Press statements by the NATO Secretary General and the President of Lithuania at the Presidential Palace, Vilnius
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_216212.htm
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/events_67375.htm
4:00 AM EDT
11th Meeting - 53rd Regular Session of Human Rights Council
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1t/k1twbmbizr
4:00 AM EDT
3,994th Meeting, 138th Session, Human Rights Committee (CCPR)
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k18/k187rqgufs
4:00 AM EDT
WHO: Press Conference - Greater horn of Africa Crisis
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1w/k1w8b4hlfs
4:05 AM EDT
Authors on Government Efficiency - Niall Ferguson, Jennifer Pahlka, Paul Light and Richard Robb. Niall Ferguson ("Doom"), Jennifer Pahlka ("Recoding America"), Paul Light ("The Government-Industrial Complex") and Richard Robb ("Willful") talked about government bureaucracies and how to hold them accountable. This discussion was part of an all-day conference held at Columbia University in New York City.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527431-4/authors-government-efficiency-niall-ferguson-jennifer-pahlka-Paul-light-richard-robb
5:00 AM EDT
Authors on Government Efficiency - Philip Howard, Jennifer Murtazashvili, Edmund Phelps and Paul Romer. Philip Howard ("Not Accountable"), Jennifer Murtazashvili ("Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan"), Edmund Phelps ("My Journeys in Economic Theory") and Paul Romer (Professor of Economics at NYU) talked about government bureaucracies and how to hold them accountable. This discussion was part of an all-day conference held at Columbia University in New York City.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527431-5/authors-government-efficiency-philip-howard-jennifer-murtazashvili-edmund-phelps-Paul-Romer
5:30 AM EDT
Extending Social Protection to Migrant Workers in Gulf Countries: State of Play and Next Steps for Reform
Overseas Development Institute
https://odi.org/en/events/extending-social-protection-to-migrant-workers-in-gulf-countries-state-of-play-and-next-steps-for-reform/
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#129578 at 2023-06-23 12:43:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #381: The Mysterious Case of NOTHING WRONG Edition
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June 25, 2023
12:05 PM EDT
Robert Moffit Ed., "Modernizing Medicare". Heritage Foundation senior fellow Robert Moffit, co-editor of "Modernizing Medicare," and contributors to the book discussed ways to reform Medicare so that recipients receive better and more affordable care in the future. This event was hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527949-1/modernizing-medicare
June 25, 2023
1:05 PM EDT
After Words: Rebecca Grant, "Birth - Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America". Journalist Rebecca Grant reported on maternal healthcare in the U.S. & discussed how social & political dynamics impact pregnancy & motherhood. She was interviewed by New York Times reporter Alisha Gupta.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?526943-1/birth-mothers-months-pregnancy-america
June 25, 2023
2:00 PM EDT
Authors on Government Efficiency - Philip Howard, Jennifer Murtazashvili, Yuval Levin and Paul Romer. Philip Howard ("Not Accountable"), Jennifer Murtazashvili ("Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan"), Yuval Levin ("A Time to Build"), and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer talked about government bureaucracies and how to hold them accountable. This discussion was part of an all-day conference held at Columbia University in New York City.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527431-2/authors-government-efficiency-philip-howard-jennifer-murtazashvili-yuval-levin-Paul-Romer
June 25, 2023
3:02 PM EDT
SC 'Authors on Government Efficiency - Daniel DiSalvo, Troyen Brennan, Christian Madsbjerg, David Schizer and Diana Mend. Daniel DiSalvo ("Government Against Itself"), Troyen Brennan ("Just Doctoring"), Christian Madsbjerg ("Look"), David Schizer ("How to Save the World in Six (Not So Easy) Steps") and Diana Mendes (HNTB Corporation) talked about government bureaucracies and how to hold them accountable. This discussion was part of an all-day conference held at Columbia University in New York City.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527431-3/authors-government-efficiency-daniel-disalvo-troyen-brennan-christian-madsbjerg-david-schizer
June 25, 2023
4:05 PM EDT
Authors on Government Efficiency - Niall Ferguson, Jennifer Pahlka, Paul Light and Richard Robb. Niall Ferguson ("Doom"), Jennifer Pahlka ("Recoding America"), Paul Light ("The Government-Industrial Complex") and Richard Robb ("Willful") talked about government bureaucracies and how to hold them accountable. This discussion was part of an all-day conference held at Columbia University in New York City.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527431-4/authors-government-efficiency-niall-ferguson-jennifer-pahlka-Paul-light-richard-robb
June 25, 2023
5:00 PM EDT
Authors on Government Efficiency - Philip Howard, Jennifer Murtazashvili, Edmund Phelps and Paul Romer. Philip Howard ("Not Accountable"), Jennifer Murtazashvili ("Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan"), Edmund Phelps ("My Journeys in Economic Theory") and Paul Romer (Professor of Economics at NYU) talked about government bureaucracies and how to hold them accountable. This discussion was part of an all-day conference held at Columbia University in New York City.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527431-5/authors-government-efficiency-philip-howard-jennifer-murtazashvili-edmund-phelps-Paul-Romer
June 25, 2023
5:40 PM EDT
Amanda Freeman, "Getting Me Cheap - How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty". Sociologist Amanda Freeman examined how low-wage work can trap women and girls in poverty. Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago hosted this event.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527834-1/getting-cheap-low-wage-work-traps-women-girls-poverty
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