Leonhardt thinks Toyota's new Prius is a good first step toward using renewable energy.
After all, as Leonhardt points out, many top business school graduates start their careers with large consulting firms.
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Leonhardt will be the MC at the sold-out Silicon Valley Crowdfunding conference in Palo Alto tomorrow and Friday.
The New York Times likewise took a shot at Carnival in 2011 with a jab from David Leonhardt.
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Mr. LEONHARDT: Well, the way the Fed gets to influence the economy is that it can loan more or less money to banks.
To figure out how that really works - or if it does - we've brought in David Leonhardt, who writes about economics for the New York Times.
The first big change came in late July, when Abramson named David Leonhardt, a thirty-eight-year-old economics writer and a Pulitzer Prize winner, to replace Baquet as Washington bureau chief.
Eric Leonhardt, director of the Vehicle Research Institute at Western Washington University, said that even if solar cells worked far better than they do today, they wouldn't generate enough power for driving substantial distances.
Leonhardt said it would be more practical to use solar power to help charge a car's battery and use the more efficient panels mounted on a roof or over a parking area to supply the rest of the electricity needed to drive the engine.
Mr. LEONHARDT: Well, the way the financial system works, there's money moving around all the time, so banks are constantly lending money, not only to consumers but also to each other in order to shore up positions or move money around to different investments.
Donald Marron, director of the Tax Policy Center, thinks that this is precisely why cutting taxes no longer does the job, telling David Leonhardt of the New York Times that when the top marginal rate was 70 percent of higher, as it was from 1940 to 1980, tax cuts could make a big difference.
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