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April 16, 2020Banks pretend 2020 never happenedAn excerpt from a paper by finance professors Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald was used in a Bloomberg opinion column about the risk of securities fraud for public companies during a national disaster such as COVID-19.
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April 16, 2020Professional gamblers in Nevada may now be able to collect unemploymentFinance professor and assistant chair Jason Reed was quoted in a Market Watch piece, saying "“This is what the Cares act is designed to do, to catch all these people who would not have been caught with traditional unemployment insurance.”
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April 16, 2020‘Hit by a hurricane’: 22m out of work in US as coronavirus takes heavy economic toll“It’s akin to the entire country being hit by a hurricane,” said finance professor Jason Reed of the The torrent of layoffs that have swept across the U.S. in a Guardian article.
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April 16, 2020The IRS’s stimulus payment plan is basically asking for fraudIT, Analytics and Operations professor and computer security expert Mike Chapple wrote an opinion piece for Washington Post, explaining the security issues the IRS system has in regards to stimulus payments.
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April 15, 2020What should you do with your stimulus check? Will it really help the economy?"The actual amount of money that every family is getting would likely not be enough to prop the economy back up," said finance professor Jason Reed in an interview with WSBT 22 News.
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April 15, 2020Growing the Good, One Micro-Loan at a TimeUniversity of Notre Dame undergraduate students grow the good in business through the Jubilee Initiative for Financial Inclusion, a micro-lending nonprofit founded by Mendoza College of Business alumnus Peter Woo (B.B.A '14).
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April 15, 2020Excited to get your hands on that stimulus check? So are scammersThe IRS portal for stimulus money could give scammers an opening to hijack payments according to IT, Analytics and Operations professor Mike Chapple, a former computer scientist with the National Security Agency, in an article for Fortune.
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April 15, 2020Adding women to corporate boards impacts the efficiency of product recalls
A new study led by IT, Analytics and Operations professor Kaitlin Wowak finds that products that injure or kill consumers are recalled much faster when there are women on the board of the company that makes the product.
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April 14, 2020Concerns grow over food supply as coronavirus closes processing plants"We're seeing so many disruptions across a number of different product categories, particularly meat and dairy products throughout the supply chain," IT, Analytics and Operations professor Kaitlin Wowak told CBS News during an interview about the effects of COVID-19 on the meat market.
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April 14, 2020Stimulus cash puts IRS on alert for scammers preying on unwary
Bloomberg interviewed IT, Analytics and Operations professor and former computer scientist for the NSA about security concerns with the IRS payment portal, which could give scammers an opening to hijack payments.
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