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February 5, 2021
“If you do that, you must have failures. It’s intrinsic if you’re doing it right. If this policy makes sense, it makes sense because you’re targeting enterprises where it makes a big difference,” said Jim Hines, professor of economics and law, on former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s use of economic incentives to lure high-tech and sustainable businesses to the state.
The Detroit News -
February 4, 2021
“I hope the Biden administration and our many allies in Asia are able to remind Myanmar’s military leaders how bad things were for their country before they embarked on political reforms a decade ago,” said Dan Slater, professor of political science and director of U-M’s Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, commenting on this week’s military coup in the Southeast Asian nation.
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February 4, 2021
“We’ve got a lot of work to do. The estimates of one in 800 Black Americans that have been killed by COVID-19 is really disturbing. … We know that there’s differential access to opportunities that promote health in terms of having access to food and housing, financial security, the types of jobs that people are working,” said Enrique Neblett, professor of health behavior and health education.
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February 4, 2021
“The more socially vulnerable or socially disadvantaged the county is, the higher the likelihood of COVID cases and deaths,” said Renuka Tipirneni, assistant professor of internal medicine, whose research found that the coronavirus infected and killed more people in U.S. counties with higher populations of people whose second language is English, who live in crowded conditions and who live in single parent families.
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February 3, 2021
“Using the incredible leverage of federal government purchases in green electricity, zero-emission cars and new infrastructure will rapidly increase demand for home-grown climate-friendly technologies,” said Rosina Bierbaum, professor of environment and sustainability, in a story about President Biden’s executive actions to fight climate change.
The Associated Press -
February 3, 2021
“It is difficult to infer global-scale rock flow in Earth’s mantle from only a single viewpoint. It is like peeking through a keyhole and trying to find out what furniture is in the living room, kitchen and the bedrooms upstairs,” said Jeroen Ritsema, professor of earth and environmental sciences.
Live Science -
February 3, 2021
Adam Pritchard, professor of law, says lawsuits against Robinhood for restricting the frenzied online trading of GameStop stocks are very unlikely to gain traction: “The contract says they can do it. That seems to be a big stumbling block to the breach of contract claim.”
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February 2, 2021
“I think there’s a real temptation to view the stock market as a casino. But if stock prices become untethered from the actual economic value of companies, then the ability of the stock market to communicate information is broken,” said Gabriel Rauterberg, assistant professor of law, on the GameStop frenzy in which small traders used online investment firm Robinhood to drive up the stock price.
WIRED -
February 2, 2021
“The future of mobility is electric. Tesla set the pace but others are getting into the game. Ford has notably made a serious play in electrics, VW had a false start. GM has to be in this to be viable going forward,” said Andrew Hoffman, professor of sustainable enterprise, on General Motors’ plans to have all of its new light-duty vehicles be zero emission by 2035 and all of its global products and plants to be carbon neutral by 2040.
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February 2, 2021
Michigan ranked No. 1 in the Midwest with the fewest number of COVID cases per 100,000 between Nov. 1 and Jan. 15, said Marisa Eisenberg, associate professor of epidemiology, mathematics and complex systems: “Michigan calibrated its response pretty well in terms of having enough government response and Michiganders doing their part to practice social distancing and masking and all of those kinds of things to keep cases low.”
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