2026 Per Jacobsson Lecture - Stablecoins and anonymous money
Lecture delivered by Gita Gopinath (Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics, Harvard University) on "Stablecoins and anonymous money", on the occasion of the Bank's Annual General Meeting.
...Opening remarks from Dr Hannah White OBE, Director and CEO of the Institute for Government.
Regulation in uncertain times: A keynote speech by Blair McDougall MP, Minister for...
Sebastian Mallaby on Alan Greenspan's Legacy
Alan Greenspan, who led the Federal Reserve for nearly two decades, died this week at the age of 100.
"Greenspan's public life—beginning in the late '60s when he advised Nixon, ending in 2006 when...
In this episode of The Spillover, host Rebecca Patterson and former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Roger W. Ferguson Jr. reflect on the legacy of recently deceased former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, and ...
How do official statistics capture crowdfunding and P2P lending? In this episode of The Economy – How Do You Measure That?, Jim Tebrake and Artak Harutyunyan explore how digital platforms are trans...
India’s Priority Sector Lending
...ia has mandated its banks to prioritize lending for 50 years. New data from the government's own economists suggests it may not be working — the India Chair’s Associate Fellow Ar...
Borrowing can help cities invest in growth, but it also carries risks. The challenge is knowing when — and how — to use it effectively.
You can listen to this episode by searching Ideas in Develop...
“In the first quarter, there was something like $10 billion of requests to get money out of private credit…only 70% of that $10 billion of requests has been honored so far,” says Sebastian Mallaby,...
“All this capital has gone into private credit, expecting these great returns, and then it started hitting a wall,” says Rebecca Patterson, noting that bankruptcies in the industry were raising red...
...3. Why this moment isn’t a repeat of 2008, but still presents real risks due to government debt levels and the lack of safety nets for private credit.
4. As Rebecca Patterson, CF...
Streetwise: Reflections on Leadership with Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein
From navigating the 2008 financial crisis to steering Goldman Sachs through a period of transformation, Lloyd Blankfein's career offers rare insight into leadership under pressure. In his new book ...
The small business economy, and the capital that fuels it, are changing in dramatic ways. Innovations in financing, new patterns of entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, and shifting market an...
...der of A Bit Digital, makes a striking observation about the British state: the government hasn't built the muscle to be genuinely responsive. And when it has managed it, during ...
The Brookings Center for Economic Security and Opportunity will host a discussion of how the changes to the federal student loan program under OBBBA will affect student loan borrowers, their famili...
From navigating the 2008 financial crisis to steering Goldman Sachs through a period of transformation, Lloyd Blankfein's career offers rare insight into leadership under pressure. In his new book ...
In this clip from the Policy Fix, Jill Rutter from the Institute for Government delivers one of the sharpest observations in the episode. Through the furlough scheme, ...
“[Roosevelt] compared Lend-Lease . . . to a situation where your neighbor’s house is on fire. And he doesn’t have a hose. He has no way of fighting this fire. But you do. And so you lend that hose ...
The GENIUS Act stands out in financial policy. BWC Advisory Council Member Gregory Johnson explains that major bipartisan legislation has historically followed crises, but this time innovation help...
The small business economy, and the capital that fuels it, are changing in dramatic ways. Innovations in financing, new patterns of entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, and shifting market an...
The small business economy, and the capital that fuels it, are changing in dramatic ways. Innovations in financing, new patterns of entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, and shifting market an...