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Is the financial system too complex for the country’s good?

Did it all just get too complicated? And if so, how do we deal with it? It’s the economy , but this isn’t stupid. Quite the opposite when two Nobel laureates—Robert Merton, MIT PhD ’70, and Institute Professor Emeritus Robert Solow—argued different approaches to making sure what happened to the U.S. financial markets in 2008 doesn’t happen again. Dean Emeritus and Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management Richard Schmalensee moderated the

The U.S. needs an overhaul of the corporate tax system, not a temporary tax break

Today U.S. multinationals  have more cash stashed overseas than ever before –according to several estimates, companies have more than $1 trillion in profits squirreled away in foreign subsidiaries. Many of the companies with the most money abroad – including powerhouses from Apple to Google to Pfizer – say they’d like to bring a large portion of it back to the U.S. This comes with a catch, however. The companies want a

A strategy for thinking about internationalizing companies

Companies should internationalize  because the company is good at something that travels or because the industry is global in scope. And when those companies internationalize, MIT Sloan Professor Don Lessard provides a framework for exploiting and enhancing that can lead to a successful internationalization: RATs and CATs. Professor Lessard shared this framework with MIT Sloan alumni in his Alumni Weekend workshop 

Argentina’s inflation deception

For years Argentina has lied to the world about its inflation  rate. INDEC, the official statistics institute, claims the country’s inflation rate stands at around 10%. But estimates by economists—myself included—show that figure is two to three times less than the real rate. According to MIT’s Billion Prices Project, which runs an index that aggregates online price information from the largest supermarkets all over the world and provides real-time inflation estimates,

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