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  1. Road Warriors: The Romney Campaign's Hunt For Headlines

    Tue, 19 Jun 2012

    Mark Ruffalo, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello and Coldplay's Chris Martin, renowned economists including Jeffrey Sachs , and former Goldman Sachs executives and global leaders such as Desmond Tutu joined today for an unprecedented coalition

  2. Bhutan Royal Wedding: A Commoner Becomes Queen

    Thu, 13 Oct 2011

    that this was not simply some flakey idea, but something that really had substance," Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs said. "With all this wealth that's been created, we're not feeling all that well." But is Bhutan really as

  3. The Presidential Planner

    Thu, 3 Dec 2009

    Krugman, Princeton University Joe Stiglitz, Columbia University Bob Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Jeffrey Sachs , Columbia University David Ickert, Air Tractor Woody Hall, Diversapack Rose Wang, Binary Group Anna Burger, Change to

  4. Tightrope: Word-of-mouth only goes so far

    Wed, 3 Jun 2009

    Hi, Gladys, I will soon be 59, and I had to leave my job to come home to take care of my sick husband. I need to be productive both because I need the money and I need to feel like I am a part of something. I love arts and crafts and believe that I might be able to make a good living at it. So far

  5. Former Treasury secretary Summers adapts his style

    Tue, 2 Jun 2009

    Joseph Stiglitz; former Federal Reserve Board governor Alan Blinder; Harvard University's Kenneth Rogoff; and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University. The dinner represented an unusual moment in official Washington: a president, breaking bread

  6. John Legend Live in Central Park in 'GMA's' Summer Concert Series

    Tue, 26 May 2009

    poverty through sustainable development at the individual, family, and community levels. Legend is working with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs , Millennium Promise, and the people of Mbola, Tanzania to implement practical solutions to poverty that include

News

  1. Clem's Chronicles: Freddie Mac Suicide/Economy & Stress/Plan B changes/ABC NEWS in Iran

    Wed, 22 Apr 2009

    in the toilet? Dan Harris, reporting for WORLD NEWS asks that very question to economist and global health activist Jeffrey Sachs : “Harris: We’re in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Why would we want now to spend

  2. Can America Afford to 'Go Green'?

    Wed, 22 Apr 2009

    solutions because those investments are actually going to help us get out of the downturn that we're in," said Jeffrey Sachs , executive director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Representatives of more than 175 companies, including

  3. The Note, 4/7/2009: ‘One of Them’-- Obama trip marked by short-term setbacks, long-term possibilities

    Tue, 7 Apr 2009

    to become President Obama’s chief of staff.” What’s catching George Stephanopoulos’ eye -- including Jeffrey Sachs ’ take on how to game the bank bailout plan. How’s this for hoop dreams? “So imagine how awkward it might be if the

  4. Will Obama Give Africa More Than Just Pride?

    Thu, 22 Jan 2009

    policies," de Pontet said. "[It's] great to throw food aid at Ethiopia every year, but it's not sustainable." Jeffrey Sachs , who heads the Millennium Villages Project out of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is calling on the Obama

  5. John Legend Performs in Bryant Park

    Thu, 8 Jan 2009

    with a conscience, and he's on a mission. After reading "The End of Poverty" by Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs , Legend traveled to Ghana to learn more about extreme poverty. He returned determined to make a difference and address

  6. The Man Who Saw It Coming: Meet Dr. Doom

    Wed, 5 Nov 2008

    Roubini moved to the United States to pursue a h.D. at Harvard University, where he studied under noted economists Jeffrey Sachs and Lawrence Summers, who later served as Treasury Secretary under President Clinton and has been named as a candidate

  7. A Foreign Correspondent's View of U.S. Elections

    Fri, 31 Oct 2008

    New York last week. One of the main problems, he agreed with economists Nouriel Roubini of New York University and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia, was that the markets focused on surface appearances and did not recognize underlying reality. This superficiality

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Videos

  1. Saving Africa with Jeffrey Sachs

    Wed, 13 Sep 2006

    Martin C recently traveled with the program's director took them bullet Tanzania. To inaugurate the newest village. Jeffrey Sachs believes that he is found a way to end extreme poverty on this planet. That the solution is quite simple. The key

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    Jeffrey Sachs believes that he is found a way to end extreme poverty on this planet. That the solution is quite simple. The key
  2. Energy Crisis: Finding a Solution

    Sun, 22 Jun 2008

    examine the causes of the energy crisis and what to do about it. We've gathered our own mini summit here I joined by Jeffrey Sachs director Columbia university's earth institute also the author of commonwealth. Economics for troubled planet congress

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    it. We've gathered our own mini summit here I -- joined by Jeffrey Sachs director Columbia university's earth institute also the author of commonwealth. Economics for troubled planet congress and Ed Markey. And chairman of the
  3. The Year: Revolutions

    Thu, 15 Dec 2011

    protesters with pepper spray California campus stunned the country. And became a rallying cry. Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs says occupied Changing the conversation. Of the country taken over by crony capitalism. The Wall Street firms were

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    California campus stunned the country. And became a rallying cry. Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs says occupied -- Changing the conversation. Of the country taken over by crony capitalism.
  4. What's Causing Gas Prices to Rise?

    Mon, 18 Apr 2011

    about who is driving the prices up. From an MIT study on the speculative bubble leading economist Paul Krugman and Jeffrey Sachs who point the speculators. And Richard Branson whose airline pays more because of speculation. Little debate except

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    MIT study on the speculative bubble -- leading economist Paul Krugman and Jeffrey Sachs who point the speculators. And Richard Branson whose airline pays more because of speculation. Little debate except among the speculators themselves. Are
  5. Getting Off Oil for Good

    Sun, 11 Jul 2010

    always say. Can't do this is that we can be in the lead now we're watching trying to do this and were paralyzed. Jeffrey Sachs is head of the earth institute. So how would he get us off of oil and other fossil in five years under the Sachs plan

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    Jeffrey Sachs is head of the earth institute. So how would he get us off of oil and other fossil -- in five years
  6. Green Room: Energy Talk, Plus Donaldson '08?

    Sun, 22 Jun 2008

    On the top we heard all of our energy experts are and Jeffrey Sachs said this offshore drilling proposals put forth is really more of a distraction. Yet is that as saying well actually to opting

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    top we heard all of our energy experts are -- and Jeffrey Sachs said -- this offshore drilling proposals put forth is really more of a distraction. Yet is that -- as saying well actually
  7. Republicans Hammer Obama on Financing

    Sun, 22 Jun 2008

    to Begin to point 100000 barrels of oil per day out of that strategic petroleum reserve contrived on the. Price. Jeffrey Sachs of the earth institute at Columbia university and red cavity of the American Petroleum Institute were also on the program

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    Price. Jeffrey Sachs of the earth institute at Columbia university and red cavity of the American Petroleum Institute were also on the program. Shifting focus
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