GCFP Executive Director Edward Golding recently wrote with colleagues from the Urban Institute (Laurie Goodman, Jung Hyun Choi, and John Walsh) about how government policy may unnecessarily hinder...

Douglas Criscitello is a senior lecturer and executive director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy at MIT Sloan School of Management.

by Deborah Lucas / It has been 10 years since the federal government took emergency actions in response to the financial crisis of 2008. Were those expensive interventions good investments?

The United States government today is one of the largest consumer lending institutions in the world. Its expansive loan portfolio has been growing for years with little attention given to […]

BY ROBERT POZEN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR

by Daniel Greenwald, Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. More countries should follow Denmark’s example. As the Covid-19 pandemic brings the U.S. economy to a standst

“Bailouts allow investors to keep all the profits in good times without bearing the losses in bad times. Instead, bailouts impose losses on taxpayers, including those most in danger of losing their […

Bloomberg Business Week. Deborah Lucas says, “You don’t want to blow up viable, going concerns, and that’s the biggest risk in the current situation. It’s worth paying a lot to […]