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Vietnam’s Tariffs Offer Rejected by Trump Adviser—’Not a Negotiation’

Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “It seems to me that a reasonable person looking around the world from the United States saying, ‘we’re besieged with unfair trade practices,’ the first thing that they would do, the first thought that should have come into their head is let’s sit down and renegotiate.”
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Trump’s attack on higher education

Rana Foroohar highlights how universities should be a conduit for paid work experiences that fully connect what students are learning with jobs in a way that supports development of real world skills for students and creates a pool of less expensive labour for companies — something that has turned schools like Northeastern in Boston into […]
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Donald Trump Tariff Results Could Take Years To Show

Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University, told Newsweek it may take years for companies to adjust and increase their domestic output, but prices could go up fairly quickly.
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A cop dead in the snow, a girlfriend on trial. Why Karen Read is a true-crime obsession

Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, said part of the fascination with Read and others like Casey Anthony or Amanda Knox comes from the relative rarity of a woman facing murder charges.
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What makes jury selection in the Karen Read trial so hard? It’s not just publicity

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said the lawyers will need to look beyond just the questioning to determine if a juror is fit to serve on the Read case.
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Everything’s an ’emergency’: How Trump’s executive order record pace is testing the courts

“They’ve done massive firings and triggered massive lawsuits and now there are massive appeals,” Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University, told USA TODAY. “They caused all this. It’s absolutely clear that the fault is with them.”
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Trump’s Reciprocal Tariff Math Leaves Economists Baffled

“They had to come up with numbers that made him look good, and that would make U.S. [trade] look bad,” said Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University.
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Amazon, Target and Walmart In Sight for Boycotts Over DEI

A Northeastern University marketing professor, Yakov Bart, opined at the time that the failure was due to Amazon’s reach and consumers’ lack of alternatives to it.
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All of the updates about OpenAI

The company also announced partnerships with Northeastern University, London School of Economics (LSE), and Champlain College, along with with Internet2, which builds university tech infrastructure, and Instructure (maker of Canvas) to increase “equitable access to tools that support universities as they integrate AI.”
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Ted Cruz Speaks Out Against Donald Trump’s Tariffs: ‘Tax on Consumers’

Nada Sanders, professor of supply-chain management at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that the new tariffs would likely result in price hikes across the U.S.. 
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US Jobs Growth Explodes in Major Win For Trump

Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that President Trump’s tariffs were are expected to affect the U.S. labor market, with broader job losses due to an anticipated increase in inflation.
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‘VIP’ bettors say sportsbooks keep them playing, no matter the cost

People struggling with gambling addiction are particularly vulnerable to the pull of VIP programs, says Harry Levant, the director of gambling policy with the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law.