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Jackson Mueller
January 12, 2018Many of you have heard of India’s efforts to assign more than 1 billion residents with a unique 12-digit random number for identification purposes. -
William Lee
December 20, 2017As the new tax legislation waits for President Trump’s signature, public discussion continues to ignore one of its most important elements: the possibility of increasing productivity by reducing the tax... -
William Lee
August 10, 2017Markets are reacting badly to rising tensions between North Korea and the United States even as most forecasters have been revising up global growth projections. -
Ross C. DeVol
February 02, 2017President Trump has called for a significant reduction in the corporate tax rate to aid the competitiveness of U.S. firms. The U.S. -
Michael Bright
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May 05, 2016With about 260 days left in the Obama administration, the clock is running down on Jacob J. Lew’s tenure as secretary of the Treasury as well as the government’s policy agenda. -
May 04, 2016“Five years ago, I don’t think anyone would have trusted their 16-year-old daughter getting into a car with a stranger,” said Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO of TaskRabbit. -
May 04, 2016When Darryl White, the CEO of BMO Capital Markets, had lunch with some college students in New York last week, the brokerage chief learned firsthand just how terrible Wall Street's... -
May 02, 2016Kristin Groos Richmond’s goal is to attack America’s childhood obesity problem in the school lunchroom, one healthy meal at a time. -
Ross C. DeVol
April 27, 2016As volatility in equity markets this year demonstrate, the world continues to be a risky place. -
Jakob Wilhelmus
February 25, 2016In her latest statement before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs, Fed Chair Janet Yellen answered a question about the importance and use of the Phillips curve. -
Jackson Mueller
January 20, 2016Welcome to FinTech in Focus, a compilation of must-read stories about the role technology plays in the delivery of financial products and services. -
Keith Savard
October 02, 2015The Federal Reserve has done its best since the global financial crisis to explain clearly its actions in undertaking exceptional monetary measures and to guide the public and market participants... -
Keith Savard
September 15, 2015With all eyes focused on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting this week and whether or not the target for the federal funds rate will be raised, market participants... -
September 11, 2015This week, we feature a new Financial Innovations Lab report on Southeast Asia, a blog about Europe's refugee crisis and a blog about aging and technology. -
Ross C. DeVol
September 10, 2015Two readings on U.S. labor markets depict an economy that remains on track for continued expansion. -
Claude Lopez and Matt Horton
August 21, 2015Whether the lapse in authority for the Ex-Im bank is seen as a concession by Congress to the more ideologically fervent members of a political party’s base, or as others... -
August 20, 2015As it stands today, the US payments system – which moves money between banks and between account holders – isn’t broken, but it can do better. -
Peter Passell
June 22, 2015Alvin Roth, an economist at Stanford who won a Nobel Prize in 2012, will be speaking at a Milken Institute Forum in Santa Monica on June 23 (see the details here). -
April 30, 2015Penny Pritzker, who has been President Obama's Commerce secretary since June 2013, is trying to send a message to businesses large and small: Don't underestimate what the Commerce Department can...
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