For Ruth Aguilera, an expert on sovereign funds and professor at Northeastern University in Boston and at the Esade business school, this mention is significant because of what it says about their future independence.

Today on AirTalk, we check in on the television news industry to see where it stands and where its going. Joining us are David Folkenflik, media correspondent for NPR, and Dan Kennedy, professor of journalism Northeastern University.

“The foresight here is pretty impressive, because obviously, ‘threepeat’ has become a valuable term,” said Alexandra Roberts, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law.

Dan Urman, a Northeastern University law professor, told NBC News: “The bottom line is that our system is predicated on good faith, but also the rule of law in America means that the government abides by court rulings.”

Robert K. Triest, professor of economics at Northeastern University, recently told Northeastern Global News:”It’s expensive to mint coins, and it’s also expensive for businesses to process small coins.”

Robert K. Triest, an economics professor at Northeastern University, previously told the Associated Press: “The process of discontinuing the penny in the U.S. is a little unclear. It would likely require an act of Congress, but the Secretary of the Treasury might be able to simply stop the minting of new pennies.”

Already, others are beginning to explore the new paradigm of cosmic stasis. In August 2024, James Halverson and Sneh Pandya at Northeastern University in Massachusetts found that cosmic stasis arises from decaying towers of axions within models of string theory known as the axiverse.