How can we apply the same emergency measures that Harvard and other universities are using to navigate a financial crisis? Also, how universities invest their endowments and what their performance has been. Topics covered include: Show Notes Letter Sent to Harvard 2025-04-11—Harvard Harvard Response 2025-04-14—Harvard Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands by Vimal Patel—The New York Times Should Harvard Be Tax Exempt? by The Editorial … [Read more...]
333: How The Covid Shock Nearly Destroyed The Financial System
Why the Federal Reserve had to step in again to stop runs on money market mutual funds and keep the financial system from imploding. Topics covered include: Show Notes President’s Working Group on Financial Markets Releases Report on Money Market Funds—U.S. Department of the Treasury Report of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets: Overview of Recent Events and Potential Reform Options for Money Market Funds, December 2020—U.S. Department of the Treasury U.S. … [Read more...]
285: Money is Debt
Money can be used to purchase things now or saved to purchase things later. If individuals want to save their money to purchase things in the not too distant future, they can invest in what are known as cash equivalents. These include savings accounts at banks or money market mutual funds. Cash equivalents pay a little bit of interest while also having price stability in that the value of deposits varies little from day-to-day. Money Is Debt Backed By Debt Gary Gorton, Professor of … [Read more...]
97: The Great Financial Crisis
What caused the great financial crisis and how the lessons learned apply to our own financial lives. In this episode you'll learn: What caused the great financial crisis.What are mortgage backed securities and collateralized debt obligations.What is overcollateralization.How leverage and accounting rules contributed to the crisis.How we can apply the lessons learned from the great financial crisis to our own financial lives. Show Notes To Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How … [Read more...]
