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...more modest scale, Harvard students have suggested growing vegetables at an Allston farm. Junior faculty members have expressed interest in reasonably priced new housing, and graduates of HBS and others could benefit from affordable incubator office space close to campus...
...that President Faust just led to South Africa in November. With Harvard’s local Allston/Brighton opportunity, a combination of Rappaport Institute conferences, seed grants to interested individuals and organizations, business plan contests, and an open invitation from the administration to welcome and consider good ideas could be enough to get the ball rolling...
...broad strokes, Obama set out a framework for using more federal money to create jobs. In addition to the infrastructure piece, which aides said could cost as much as $50 billion, Obama proposed new incentives for consumers who retrofit their homes (a program some have already dubbed Cash for Caulkers), an elimination of the capital-gains tax for small businesses and extensions of several other programs from the last stimulus to help small businesses. He also said he would instruct the Treasury Department to use funds that have already been appropriated to increase the flow of credit to small businesses...
...briefing call with reporters before the speech, a senior Administration official said that even though the unspent and returned TARP funds could not be used directly to fund the new stimulus efforts, they still created an environment in which there was "more fiscal room" for further spending. "There's other offsets over a 10-year period that one could consider as well," the official said, without providing any specifics...
...Those specifics will no doubt come out over the next few weeks and months as Congress attempts to pass a series of large spending bills, which could include a number of the programs that Obama announced. "One of the central goals of this Administration is restoring fiscal responsibility," he said in his speech. But as long as the economy continues in its fragile state, that goal will remain secondary to the more immediate task at hand. Which means that Obama's calls for government spending will keep being met by Republican cries of hypocrisy...