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When the Affordable Care Act’s “individual mandate” takes effect in October, millions of Americans will be hard pressed to select the best health insurance coverage for their needs, unless relatively simple design features are incorporated into the state and federal websites they will use to choose a policy. Smart design of those websites, the so-called health insurance exchanges at the heart of Obamacare, could save consumers and the government more than $9 billion annually.

Our annual Tokyo Conference was held on May 15th at Otemachi Financial City Conference Center. With Governor Kuroda from the Bank of Japan and Dr. Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics as keynote speakers, the conference gathered speakers and guests from a wide range of fields to discuss and debate the future of the Japanese economy. The event was sold out and covered by multiple media sources, which can be viewed from the following links:

New online marketplaces don't do enough to let consumers weigh their options, experts sayBy Karen PallaritoHealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- You have to wade through a lot of insurance jargon and be a skilled number-cruncher to choose the right health insurance plan on the new health exchanges, health literacy and consumer decision-making experts say.

When frigid temperatures set much of the country shivering last week, pundits took the opportunity to scoff at the concept of climate change."This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bull**** has got to stop," Donald Trump tweeted. "Our planet is freezing, record low temps, and our GW scientists are stuck in ice."The final comment referred to an Antarctic research vessel that got stuck in ice driven by high winds in late December.  

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Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate Christopher Mayer spoke at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, April 24, as part of the panel "Helping Responsible Homeowners Save Money Through Refinancing" convened by the Senate Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development.

Neng Wang, the Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, has been awarded a 2013 Research Grant from the School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business to further his work on dynamic entrepreneurial finance.