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  1. Shrinking household debt is good sign for 2013 economy

    Sun, 16 Sep 2012

    That's down to below 85% now, and on pace to approach 75% by late next year, Moody predicts. Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff said consumer debt is now headed in the right direction, but cautioned it might not translate quickly into more economic

  2. Analysis: A deep divide over the nation's course ahead

    Wed, 25 Jan 2012

    of the two sides on opposite sides of the aisle may no longer be adequate to illustrate their divide. Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff says they seem to be operating in separate worlds. "The whole debate has a men-are-from-Mars, women-are-from-Venus

  3. U.S. stocks open higher, Europe trims losses

    Tue, 9 Aug 2011

    for the Fed is to announce that it is considering another monetary stimulus, which would be its third in three years. Kenneth Rogoff , a Harvard University economist, says that may be the only hope to help the U.S. avoid a Japan-style lost decade of

  4. U.S. stock futures point to higher open, Europe trims losses

    Tue, 9 Aug 2011

    for the Fed is to announce that it is considering another monetary stimulus, which would be its third in three years. Kenneth Rogoff , a Harvard University economist, says that may be the only hope to help the U.S. avoid a Japan-style lost decade of

  5. Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn: The portrait of a paradox

    Thu, 2 Jun 2011

    The whole thing, his downfall, the circumstances are just incomprehensible. I don't know another word for it," said Kenneth Rogoff , a former IMF chief economist who's now a Harvard University economics professor and member of the Group of 30, an organization

  6. Larger debt debate looms on the Hill

    Sun, 3 Apr 2011

    soaring U.S. debt caused international investors to sour on Treasury bonds. On Tuesday, dozens of senators will hear from Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, whose recent paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research warns of future crises. "This

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  1. Why You Should Care About PIGS

    Tue, 9 Feb 2010

    It's a typical aftershock after a big banking crisis to get a big sovereign debt crisis," says Harvard University economist Ken Rogoff , who has just co-authored a book on financial crises. How PIGS May Have Hurt Your Retirement Savings And it's easy to

  2. 'This Week' Transcript: Pelosi and Gates

    Fri, 22 Jan 2010

    this point, and I do not think so. I side with people like Kenneth Rogoff at Harvard who say there is time for austerity, and this CROSSTALK) KRUGMAN: That's -- yes, I think Ken Rogoff is doing some damage here with some pretty bad statistics

  3. Obama's Influence on Bank Lending Is in Doubt

    Mon, 14 Dec 2009

    guys operate for the next two decades or more," said Harvard economics professor and former Federal Reserve economist Kenneth Rogoff . "Certainly the president has a lot of sway over them." Obama, he said, "has to say he's mad, because if he's

  4. Not every nation can export its way to economic recovery

    Wed, 2 Sep 2009

    economic drivers. "The world is going to be adjusting for years to slow growth from the U.S. consumer," says economist Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University. "The U.S. consumer has been the engine of world growth for the last quarter century; that

  5. U.S. debt shrinking at glacial pace

    Mon, 6 Jul 2009

    of the U.S. consumer is a huge adjustment the whole world is going to have to absorb," says Harvard University's Kenneth Rogoff , former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. Household debt peaked at 133% of disposable income in 2007

  6. Rising national debt raises prospects of eventual inflation

    Sun, 28 Jun 2009

    spending. Already, some economists are suggesting letting inflation take some of the bite out of government spending. Kenneth Rogoff , chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, gently told Bloomberg News that a bit of inflation might be a good

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

    Wed, 3 Jun 2009

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