October 21, 2015
A debt ceiling controversy could erupt by November 3rd when Jack Lew says the U.S. Treasury will need to borrow to meet its spending obligations.
October 5, 2015
Because credit card scores predict trustworthiness and financial distress, they indicate whether a co-habitation relationship will be long lasting.
October 2, 2015
Retirement savings and income depend on the person's prior income, longevity, the macroeconomic environment, Social Security and other entitlement programs.
September 30, 2015
The characteristics of the student loan crisis include a high default and delinquency rate, huge amounts of money and a personal and macroeconomic impact.
September 22, 2015
Always contentious, the federal budget needs to be approved by October 1st or a continuing resolution needs to enable discretionary federal spending.
August 30, 2015
Although it seems callous, for safety regulation like speed limits and for victims' compensation like 9/11 we need to quantify the value of a life.
August 25, 2015
August 21, 2015
Depending on how fast news travels, high speed trading can be done through homing pigeons or computers but both have created information asymmetry.
July 24, 2015
Although people in the eurozone want a single currency and their leaders want unity, monetary union problems create political distrust and disunity.
July 1, 2015
Comparing debt to GDP is like looking at a mortgage loan and household net worth. It can help us decide when a sovereign debt became too large.
May 8, 2015
In financial markets, data security relates to the timing of data releases because premature releases or leaks unfairly favor one group of investors.
May 4, 2015
While many nations have deposit Insurance and China will have theirs very soon, the quality and the confidence in different deposit insurance schemes vary.