Money and Finance
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Is the AI boom an AI bubble?
Jared Bernstein, SIEPR policy fellow and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, appears on NPR to talk about why he thinks the AI investment frenzy could end badly.
October 16, 2025
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Warning: Our stock market is looking like a bubble
It's time to call artificial intelligence the third bubble of the century, argue SIEPR's Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings in a New York Times op-ed.
October 14, 2025
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Measuring the vibecession
SIEPR Distinguished Policy Fellow Jared Bernstein sheds light in Washington Monthly on why there's an affordability crisis despite government data signaling the economy is strong..
October 03, 2025
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We really want to trust crypto interests with the future of money?
In a New York Times op-ed, SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru explains why pending federal legislation favoring privately-issued digital currencies is bad policy.
September 29, 2025
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Women’s take-home pay often drops 10 percent during menopause, a study finds
Inc. Magazine features research by SIEPR's Petra Persson measuring the 'menopause penalty' women encounter at work.
September 29, 2025
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The gender optimism gap
SIEPR's Neale Mahoney and Ryan Cummings have a new analysis identifying a large and persistent gap in consumer sentiment between women and men.
September 29, 2025
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Americans lose faith that hard work leads to economic gains, WSJ-NORC poll finds
SIEPR director Neale Mahoney quoted, and his research with SIEPR chief of staff Ryan Cummings cited, in Wall Street Journal story on the loss of faith in the American dream.
September 01, 2025
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The democratization of private equity could create a “systemic risk machine”
In a Q&A, SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru explains the risks of the investment rush in private markets.
August 20, 2025
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The deeper reason for banking’s retreat
The Economist credits research by SIEPR's Greg Buchak in describing how regulatory red tape only partially explains commercial banking's retreat from traditional lending.
July 31, 2025
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Can markets trust stablecoins?
SIEPR's Amit Seru warns in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the recently passed Genius Act doesn't go far enough in regulating the digital currency known as stablecoins.
July 28, 2025
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Why more public pensions are taking a chance on alternative investments
SIEPR Faculty Fellow Juliane Begenau examines why public retirement plans have shifted more money to “risky” assets like private equity and hedge funds. In a word: advisors.
July 24, 2025
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What economics can teach foreign-policy types
The Economist features work by SIEPR's Matteo Maggiori into how countries like the U.S. and China are using economic coercion to achieve geopolitical goals.
July 24, 2025
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Debt reckoning: Has the Treasury market started to crack?
Harper's Magazine features insights from SIEPR's Hanno Lustig on why investors may be souring on Treasuries, which have long been considered the world's safest asset.
July 18, 2025
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SIEPR Director Neale Mahoney talks tariffs, uncertainty
In a CNN interview, Mahoney explains how Trump tariffs, the threat of more to come, and the uncertainty they cause will eventually harm economic growth in the U.S. and the world.
July 11, 2025
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Biden’s chief economist: The chart that convinced me our debt is a serious problem
Jared Bernstein, a Distinguished Policy Fellow at SIEPR, explains in a New York Times guest essay why Trump’s economic policies have turned him from a budget dove to a budget hawk.
July 09, 2025
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How have prices changed under Trump? Experts explain.
Neale Mahoney tells ABC News that, despite recent declines in the inflation rate, that “there’s a rock solid body of evidence" that Trump tariffs will raise consumer prices.
July 08, 2025
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‘No Buy’ July: Is It Really a Good Idea?
SIEPR's Annamaria Lusardi cautions in a New York Times story on the "no buy" July trend that the middle of summer isn't a great time for penny-pinching.
June 27, 2025
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Simple storytelling boosts financial literacy, study finds
New research by SIEPR’s Annamaria Lusardi shows the promising benefit of an online tool to improve adults’ financial knowledge by teaching the basics via two-minute stories.
June 04, 2025
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Scoping the trade war: New tool tracks company responses to tariffs, economic threats
SIEPR’s Antonio Coppola and Matteo Maggiori leverage AI to develop a way of measuring how companies are reacting to President Trump’s tariffs and other forms of economic pressure.
May 09, 2025
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Trump’s tariffs lead investors to question the future of the dollar
The dollar is typically a refuge in moments of uncertainty. SIEPR senior fellows Arvind Krishnamurthy and Hanno Lustig say this time is different.
May 08, 2025