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MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy
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Steering US Credit Programs Toward Data-Driven Performance Management
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MIT GCFP Blog Series
Repealing Title II of Dodd-Frank
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This guest blog post, by former Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo, was prepared while he was recently in residence at the Golub Center as a Distinguished Fellow.
Informing Policy Options through Improved Student Loan Data
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With the arrival of a new Congress and a new administration, change may be in store for current and former students who have borrowed to pay for higher education expenses. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump indicated a desire to ease the debt burden carried by former students, and Republicans at ti...
Building Trust in Government through a 21st Century Approach to Financial Management
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As the keynote speaker at a recent conference of the International Consortium on Government Financial Management held in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to discuss with representatives from over 40 countries one of the primary challenges facing governments around the world – citizen engagement.
Liquidity Fueled CARS Stimulus
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In fragile economic times, the U.S. government occasionally enacts stimulus programs to provide a jolt to consumer spending. This was certainly the case during the Great Recession, when the government utilized both explicit stimulus programs, such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200...