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ND in the News: February 2021

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  1. Jason Reed, assistant chair of finance at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, said: “We shouldn’t forget that the economy is still down about 10m jobs since the start of the pandemic. We aren’t anywhere close to where we were this time last year.

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    Jason Reed

    Jason Reed

    Mendoza College of Business

  2. Federal aid to households actually decreased the poverty rate between March and June of 2020, but as certain benefits expired over the summer, millions fell back into poverty, including 2.3 million children under 17, according to a team of economists from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  3. "We aren't anywhere close to where we were this time last year. The rollout of the vaccine will surely help Americans get back to work, but we shouldn't expect a return to normal until late 2021 or early 2022," Dz, professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, said.

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    Jason Reed

    Jason Reed

    Mendoza College of Business

  4. “If you ban payment for order flow, the individual investor is going to be worse off,” said Robert Battalio, a finance professor at the University of Notre Dame.

  5. “Perhaps a concern among top regulators is that markets for certain stocks are not currently discovering prices effectively, and that individuals are trading on credit in these markets,” Patrick Corrigan, a Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ professor specializing in securities regulation, said in an email.

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    Patrick Corrigan

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  6. Elizabeth Renieris, a data protection and privacy lawyer who runs the Notre Dame-IB Tech Ethics Center, says the clash over tracking has exposed how much both companies dominate their respective markets, which could be problematic since both are under antitrust scrutiny.

  7. According to Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, professors of political science at the University of Miami and Notre Dame, conspiracy theorists do not “hold coherent, constrained policy positions.”

  8. Tim Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, said the transition may free up Bezos to focus on his other passions.

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    Timothy David Hubbard

    Timothy Hubbard

    Mendoza College of Business

  9. That brought an angry response from Stephen F. Smith, a law professor at Notre Dame.

  10. His post garnered an "angry response" from Stephen F. Smith, a law professor at Notre Dame, who the Post said wrote back: "If by 'truth' you mean what actually happened, as opposed to a false narrative, then I agree."

  11. Tim Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, said: “Andy Jassy stepping into the CEO role at Amazon is a natural fit. Amazon Web Services is a powerhouse within the company, driving a lot of profitability."

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    Timothy David Hubbard

    Timothy Hubbard

    Mendoza College of Business

  12. "Andy Jassy stepping into the CEO role at Amazon is a natural fit," Tim Hubbard, assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business said in an emailed comment. 

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    Timothy David Hubbard

    Timothy Hubbard

    Mendoza College of Business

  13. But in states that doled out benefits to less than 35% of unemployed residents, poverty increased by 1.3% in 2020, a study from the University of Chicago and Notre Dame found.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

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    "Pope Francis has talked about the need to find a better kind of politics, a less polarizing kind of politics. And I think in that sense, he's expressing his hope that Joe Biden could be the one to open that conversation," said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.

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  15. "His (Garland's) job could become much more complicated very quickly," said University of Notre Dame law professor Jimmy Gurule, who was a Justice Department official in the George H.W. Bush administration.

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    Jimmy Gurulé

    Jimmy Gurulé

    Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ