Harvard Magazine recently took notice of a lecture C. Lowell Harriss made during the AIER Summer Fellowship. Harriss, a longtime AIER trustee, is a Harvard alumni as well as professor emeritus of economics at Columbia University. He spoke to the student fellows about changes in the substance of economics since his sophomore course at Harvard in 1931.

AIER's newest publication Start Here: Getting Your Financial Life on Track by R.D. Norton, Senior Fellow and Research Advisor, has been recommended by numerous newspapers. These have included the San Jose Mercury News, Alameda Times Star, Contra Costa Times, Fremont Argus, Hayward Daily Review, Oakland Tribune, San Mateo County Times and Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, CA).

AIER visiting research fellow Fergus Hodgson's article entitled "The New Zealand Way" has been published in The Washington Times. This commentary compares the Federal Reserve policies of the United States the those of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

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July 31, 2009  2:00-4:30pm

As part of our Summer Lecture Series AIER will be hosting a symposium on the topic of hyperinflation. This mini-conference will feature presentations by:

Thomas Glaessner of ICG at Citigroup
Peter Heller of the International Monetary Fund
Gerard Caprio, Prof. of Economics at Williams College
Joshua Rosner of Graham Fisher & Co.

August 3, 2009  3:00-4:30pm

As part of our Summer Lecture Series AIER will be hosting a lecture by William Black of the University of Missouri – Kansas City. William Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.

The Boston Globe mentioned AIER and the work of Research Fellow Polina Vlasenko's in the article Working Longer, Staying Sharper, published on Monday, July 27.

Dow Jones writer Michael S. Derby has highlighted the research found in the article, a Toolkit for Transparency, published in the July 6 issue of Research Reports. 

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AIER's new publication, Start Here: Getting Your Financial Life on Track, has been mentioned in the College Finance 101 Blog.

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AIER's newest publication Start Here: Getting Your Financial Life on Track has been featured on the Money Talk Network.

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A recent commentary written by visiting research fellow William F. Ford and research fellow Walker Todd has been published in the opinion section of the Washington Times. The article discusses the Fed's balance sheet and is entitled "More Secret Than Sensible: Accounting Methods Block a Clear View."

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