Money and Finance

Amit Seru, SIEPR senior fellow, writes in Barron's that the Federal Reserve's quest for independent evaluations of its core operations overlooked one critical area: financial stability.

Neale Mahoney, SIEPR director and a leading scholar on medical debt, discusses on the Tradeoffs podcast research into strategies for helping patients manage health care costs.

The New York Times covers at length the latest results from the TIAA Institute–GFLEC Personal Finance Index, an annual report measuring financial literacy rates and coauthored by SIEPR Senior Fellow Annamaria Lusardi.

Neale Mahoney, SIEPR's Trione Director, tells the New York Times that a Trump administration proposal to allow patients to take out loans from health insurers to pay for their rising medical costs "seems to be hugely out of touch with where people are" given strained household budgets.

Matteo Maggiori, SIEPR senior fellow, explains the return of economic competition among powerful countries and predicts it will shape the next decades of international relations, in the latest issue of the International Monetary Fund's Finance & Development magazine.

SIEPR’s Darrell Duffie tells The Economist that, even if the Federal Reserve starts to play a smaller role in financial markets, the central bank will step in to avert a crisis. “But even with all guns blazing it can’t stop Treasury-market dysfunction. It can only make it less bad," Duffie said.

Scott Wallsten, a new SIEPR policy fellow and president of the Technology Policy Institute, uses his experience building a retirement-planning tool to show how AI is reducing the time and cost from idea to product, with implications for companies and the intermediaries they typically hire to build custom tools.

Kevin Warsh, confirmed last week as Federal Reserve chair, is wise to reexamine the central bank's models and overall approach as stagflation risks grow, explains SIEPR Senior Fellow John Cochrane in The Washington Post.

The Financial Times, in a story about Gen Z’s economic challenges, quotes SIEPR Senior Fellow Annamaria Lusardi on how parents can help their children learn financial literacy. She points out, too, that today's economic reality means "common wisdom" around personal finance no longer works for any age group.

In a New York Times op-ed, SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru warns that political dysfunction is seeping into American capitalism. Trump's erratic policies are the key reason, but Biden shares some blame, too.

The Financial Times covers a new report by SIEPR's Neale Mahoney and Chad Maisel detailing what they dub the "annoyance economy." Mahoney tells the outlet that AI will likely lead to even more frustration as scams and fees rise.

Bloomberg cites proposed reforms by SIEPR's Darrell Duffie to help the Federal Reserve shrink its $6.6 trillion balance sheet without blowing up money markets.