Economics

Chris Temple of Living on One, in a scene from the documentary, "Living on One Dollar."

keynote speaker Hilary Hoynes (second from left), with CMC professors Heather Antecol and Serkan Ozbeklik

On April 11, CMC’s Inland Empire Center hosted the Coachella Valley Economic Forecast Conference in Indian Wells. The event was sponsored by both the Lowe and the Rose Institutes at CMC. Set against a background of slopes baking in the Southern California sun, economists, healthcare experts, lawyers, and real estate developers discussed health and wealth forecasts for the Greater Palm Springs area.

Is Europe facing an economic crisis? For economist and author Guy Sorman, this is a familiar question.

“Europe has always been in crisis,” Sorman told a lunchtime audience at the Athenaeum earlier this week. “In fact, I cannot remember when there hasn’t been a crisis.”

It may not be a household term yet, but President Obama’s mention of the College Scorecard in his Feb.

CMC's Lisa Meulbroek, the Fritz B. Burns Professor of Financial Economics, George R. Roberts Fellow, and director of the Financial Economics Institute (far left), with FEI students at the New York offices of KKR, with Trustee Henry R. Kravis '67 (center, blue tie).

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