finances

“In an ironic generational twist, the children of Baby Boomers are proving more inclined to turn to their grandparents for advice -- at least when it comes to learning about managing money and saving for the future,” writes Joseph Coughlin, director of the MIT AgeLab, in an op-ed for The Huffington Post. 

Researchers from MIT and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston “are engaged in a ‘multi-year effort to build and test a hypothetical digital currency oriented to central bank uses,’” reports Craig Torres for Bloomberg.