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 Douglas Criscitello / With taxpayers at risk for $20 trillion in loans and insured obligations, worth more than the five largest American bank companies combined, the United States government...
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?
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...
GCFP serves as a catalyst for innovative, cross-disciplinary and non-partisan research and educational initiatives that address the unique challenges facing governments as financial institutions.
Deborah Lucas said she would opt for temporarily leaving the weekly payment at $600, or even increasing it a bit...
The central bank could try to help Americans more directly, said Prof. Lucas: “They could print money, and ... distribute it to households."
Deborah Lucas says: "If the goal is to protect paychecks, the way we do that is through our unemployment system,”
