Financial Stability

David Beckworth: Our guest today is Srinivas Thiruvadanthai. Sri is a managing director and the director of research at the

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David Beckworth: Our guest today is Heather Boushey. Heather is the Executive Director at the Washington Center for Equitable

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November 12, 2018 marked the nineteenth anniversary of the enactment of the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999

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Last year, I wrote a blog post in which I discussed my findings from a working paper that showed how the so-called “Recourse

Does the fact that stock prices are exceeding the traditional measurements of valuation mean that the market has a bubble? Scott

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis recently published a final version of an earlier draft that claims to make “a stronger

Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo recently lauded the "macroprudentialism". However, macroprudentialists' intensifying focus on the asset management industry offers the latest glimpse into how such an approach could undermine financial stability. Regulators are not wrong to think about the stability of the whole financial system. They are wrong, however, to assume that centralized risk management will foster systemic stability. Instead, it will introduce new vulnerabilities into the financial system.