Several years since a collapse in house prices triggered the deepest financial and economic crisis in post-war American history, almost one in eight mortgage borrowers in the US are now either delinquent or in foreclosure proceedings. However, despite the considerable resources invested in various loan modification programs, the benefits have not reached the majority of […]
Congress established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in July 2011 with the goal of promoting accountability, fairness, and transparency in the financial industry. The CFPB works to provide consumers with honest, accessible information about financial regulations and to help them understand their own relationships with financial institutions as mortgagers, credit card providers, and investment banks. […]
Millions of people carry huge credit card balances. Is it because they don’t understand the costs? Millions more don’t set aside money in a retirement account. Do they not understand the benefits? The conventional answer to both questions is yes. The conventional response is to offer them personal finance 101. Building financial literacy is a […]
One from the archives: back in 2010, ideas42 co-founder Sendhil Mullainathan and New York University’s Glenn Loury had a wide-ranging discussion about behavioral economics, which you can listen to here. Lots of food for thought in there, including the behavioral economics of the snooze button, why single mothers are like air-traffic controllers, and sundry other […]
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