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Ahead of Wednesday Federal Open Market Committee announcement about whether the Fed will taper its monetary stimulus program, Making Sense interviewed former Fed economist Catherine Mann, now at the Brandeis International Business School. She doesn ;t think the Fed will begin tapering this month. But when it does, she predicts the Fed could lower its purchases of assets in a nuanced way, perhaps lowering the amount of Treasuries, but not of mortgage-backed securities, it buys. In our continued conversation with Mann, below, she notes
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Scores of people are filming themselves dumping buckets of ice on their heads, posting the video to Facebook or Twitter, then challenging their friends to do so, too. The chilly action is intended to raise awareness of ALS, or聽Lou Gehrigs disease.Over the weekend, even 86-year-old Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy, got in on the action, challenging President Obama from her Hyan
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stanley cup S Association estimates. Started by Boston College baseball player Pete Frates several months ago, the movement has gone viral with the hashtag icebucketchallenge or StrikeoutALS. Frates was diagnosed in 2012, and has since become paralyzed, only able to eat through a tube. It just proves the goodness of human beings and the power of people. The power of positivity, John Frates, Pete dad, told ABC Boston. All we needed, really, was a bucket and a bag of ice to create all the awareness we ever needed.Matt Lauer of NBC Today Show helped propel the movement in mid-July when he was the recipient of an ice bucket himself on-air, and then challenged Martha Stewart, who accepted.
