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October 3, 2019
“Trade policies have had the greatest negative impact on consumers, with a near record one-third of all consumers negatively mentioning trade policies in September when asked to explain in their own words the factors underlying their economic expectations,” said Richard Curtin, director of the Surveys of Consumers.
CNBC -
October 3, 2019
Dave Ulrich, professor of business administration, argues that today’s companies need to replace old hierarchical models with what he calls a “market-oriented ecosystem,” the blueprint for younger, fast-moving companies like Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Supercell: “There are enormous and dramatic changes in almost every part of our lives. And so, hierarchical organizations simply don’t respond.”
Harvard Business Review -
October 3, 2019
Matthew Shapiro, professor of economics and director of the Survey Research Center, says the $4 billion cost of the last three government shutdowns, as reported by a Senate subcommittee, “understates the cost of the shutdowns, because of all the indirect effects,” such as restaurants losing business, purchases that were never made and contractors who were never reimbursed.
Marketplace -
October 2, 2019
“Unfortunately, the message that has been conveyed by many health authorities is that vaping — in general — is responsible for the illnesses. Nothing could be further from the truth. … A great concern is that misunderstanding the situation will get adult smokers who have quit smoking by vaping to give up vaping and go back to smoking. Smoking, with the 7,000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke, is dramatically more dangerous than vaping,” said Kenneth Warner, professor and dean emeritus of public health.
Detroit Metro Times -
October 2, 2019
Research by Joshua Newell, associate professor of environment and sustainability, shows the number of informal footpaths in Detroit has plummeted in the past decade due to the city fencing off and transferring vacant land to private developers and others: “The city might want to formalize this, to look at how residents have used these paths, to facilitate the flow of traffic and also to deal with safety challenges.”
Reuters -
October 2, 2019
It’s important to try to go to bed every night and wake up each morning around the same time, although people tend to go to sleep and wake up much later on the weekends — making it hard to adjust, said Cathy Goldstein, associate professor of neurology at the Sleep Disorders Center: “It’s like you’re flying from L.A. back to New York.”
CNBC -
October 1, 2019
“This is clear evidence that the president himself is reaching out on his own initiative to ask a foreign government to go after the president’s domestic political rivals. That’s very bad. It’s the sort of thing that quite clearly rises to the level of an impeachable offense. The system isn’t built to withstand a president who is going to try to use all of his power and all of his influence to harass his political opponents,” said Richard Primus, professor of law.
WDET Radio -
October 1, 2019
“Mostly (they) get really depressed by the first part of the course, and then they pull it together at the end when they see how they can handle it. My emotion more and more is moving into acceptance of loss,” said Richard Rood, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and environment and sustainability, on the anxiety many of his students feel about the effects of climate change.
The Associated Press -
October 1, 2019
“The guidelines are not saying, ‘You should try this.’ They’re saying, ‘If you want to try, here’s how you should do it,'” said Kevin Boehnke, research investigator in anesthesiology and the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, who helped write Arthritis Foundation guidelines for people who want to try the cannabis-derived ingredient CBD to relieve pain.
NBC Today -
September 30, 2019
“We find nothing to suggest that granting someone a set-aside puts the public at risk, as skeptics have sometimes suggested. Those who receive set-asides are less likely to commit a new crime than the general adult population of Michigan. The rate of serious or violent re-offending is almost zero,” wrote Sonja Starr, professor of law, and J.J. Prescott, professor of law and economics, about a package of bills in the Michigan Legislature that would set aside criminal records for certain offenders through expungement.
The Detroit News
