Beyond the bubble
At Center for Real Estate conference, economists contemplate ways to make the risks of financial innovation more evident.
Explained: Quantitative easing
An unconventional financial tool is getting more attention as the Fed tries to jump-start the U.S. economy
When a little knowledge really is dangerous
MIT Sloan professor on the ‘arms race’ between investors trying to understand financial products, and the firms trying to confuse them.
Explained: Knightian uncertainty
The economic crisis has revived an old philosophical idea about risk and uncertainty. But what is it, exactly?
3 Questions: The euro mess
MIT Sloan economist Kristin Forbes on the recent troubles roiling the international financial markets
All in the family: MIT Sloan becoming home for the Hatamis
Third sibling to receive his MBA this spring; follows his older brother and younger sister.
Pattern seen in governments’ currency policies
Small-time money transfers from migrants shape key decisions on foreign exchange, research shows.
‘Failure is good’
In a talk to promote his new book, MIT’s Simon Johnson lambastes a finance industry he sees as lacking a healthy fear of losing money.
Banking on mobile money
A cellphone-based cash transfer system has changed the way Kenyans handle their finances. But what does it mean for Kenya's economy — and the developing world?
MIT Sloan Professor Simon Johnson named 'public intellectual' of the year
MIT Sloan Professor Simon Johnson topped UK's Prospect Magazine's list of 25 public intellectuals of the financial crisis in 2009.
3 Questions: Vincent Lépinay on bankers unleashed
An MIT anthropologist, who studies financial practices, discusses how ever-changing banking tools baffle regulators.
Simon Johnson, Lawrence Fish discuss 'Financial Services: Prospects for Your Future'
Experts deconstruct the near collapse of the banking system
Insurance against financial fear
When the economy stumbles, panic can drive matters from bad to worse. Economist Ricardo Caballero has a new plan to keep investment markets free of fear