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China’s Growing Local Government Debt Levels - New MIT Report provides a snapshot of debt levels over time

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks discusses the forces shaping banking today, from cryptocurrencies, fintech and the payment system to the response to COVID and the focus on social justice.

The GCFP’s goal to provide a forum for discussion among policymakers, financial professionals, and educators will be aided by a new online MITx course “Financial Regulation: From the Global Financial Crisis to Fintech and the COVID Pandemic” to launch on October 4, 2024 on the edX platform.

The White House released the President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2019 on February 12, just days after President Trump signed a bill extending spending caps for military and domestic spending and suspending the debt ceiling. While the new law has already...

Held virtually on July 7 – 9, hosted by MIT GCFP. More videos will be made available in the coming weeks. All available videos are linked in the title.

In the latest installment of the GCFP Distinguished Speaker Series, Jack Brennan, Chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Board of Governors, discussed the [...]

Robert Merton (School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics and GCFP co-director) has long advocated for better ways to save for retirement. His concept of Retirement Security Bonds (RSB’s) would allow [...]

Does the provision of leverage to retail traders improve market quality or facilitate [...]

This January, Doug Criscitello taught a new, for-credit class on the role of the U.S. government as a financial institution. The course touched on the history of government involvement in the credit marketplace, the economic rationale for credit intervention, and the many ways the U.S. government fu...