Finance

• Now on the College Course Menu: Personal Finance By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, January 10, 2025
  
• Massachusetts, Money, and Inflation-Linked Notes By Daniel Dematos, The Tontine Coffee House, August 19, 2024
  
• Growth Stocks. Value Stocks. What Do Those Labels Mean? By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, May 10, 2024
  
• Wall St. Loves to Guess, but Nobody Knows What the Market Will Do in 2024 By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, December 23, 2023 ["So-called stock forecasts don’t deserve the name, our columnist says. Wall Street’s track record is horrendous."] 
• How Does the World’s Largest Hedge Fund Really Make Its Money? By Rob Copeland, The New York Times, November 1, 2023
  
• A ‘Shadow’ Lending Market in the U.S., Funded by Insurance Premiums By Maureen Farrell, The New York Times, October 4, 2023
  
• Harry Markowitz (1927-2023): Bringing Finance Into Economics By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, June 26, 2023
  
• Harry Markowitz, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Modern Portfolio Theory, Dies at 95 By Robert D. Hershey Jr., The New York Times, June 25, 2023
  
• Risky Bet on Crypto and a Run on Deposits Tank Signature Bank By Matthew Goldstein and Emily Flitter, The New York Times, March 12, 2023 [Regulators said keeping open the 24-year-old institution, which held deposits from law firms and real estate companies, could threaten the financial system’s stability.]
  
• The Crypto Collapse and the End of the Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism By Mihir A. Desai, The New York Times, January 16, 2023
  
• Inflation bonds are earning eye-popping rates: 9.62 percent. By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, May 4, 2022
  
• Nobel-winning stock market theory used to help save coral reefs By Karen McVeigh, The Guardian, 28 Nov 2021
  
• Inflation Bonds Are Getting a Big Rate Bump By Ann Carrns, The Nw York Times, Nov. 4, 2021
  
• Only 35% Pass Wall St.’s Toughest Test. How Much Does That Matter? By Lananh Nguyen, The New York Times, September 30, 2021 
• Stock, Bond and Real Estate Prices Are All Uncomfortably High By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, October 1, 2021
  
• Is a home warranty a waste or a smart buy? By Anthony Giorgianni and Kevin Brasler, The Washington Post, September 21, 2021
  
• The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight By Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2021
  
• What happened with GameStop? By Alexis Goldstein, Markets Weekly, 28 Jan 2021
  
• We Buy A Junk Bond Planet Money (podcast), September 9, 2020
• The Murderer, The Boy King, And The Invention Of Modern Finance Planet Money (podcast), September 4, 2020
• Mutual Fund Winners Don’t Stay Ahead for Long By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, July 31, 2020
• Course Materials
• empirical asset pricing By Ralph Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, 2021
  
• YouTube
  
• Emil Verner on Banking Crises, Credit Booms, and the Rise of Populism Mercatus Center, YouTube, Nov. 18, 2024
  
• Alex Tabarrok on DEFI Decentralized Finance - Crypto and Blockchain Macmillan Learning, YouTube, February 23, 2022
  
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Myron S. Scholes by Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, December 28, 2018
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Jeremy Siegel by Andrew Lo and Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, November 2, 2018
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Robert C. Merton by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, June 15, 2017
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Robert J. Shiller by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, June 9, 2017
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Harry M. Markowitz by Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, May 23, 2017
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Eugene F. Fama by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, December 15, 2016
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Porfolio: William F. Sharpe by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, May 26, 2016 
• The Secret History of the Credit Card Frontline PBS YouTube Channel, November 23, 2004
• Retirement
• Retirees, Get Ready to Need Long-Term Care. Here’s What to Know. By Mark Miller, The New York Times, May 24, 2025
• The 401(k) Has Reached a Tipping Point in Its Takeover of American Retirement By Anne Tergesen, The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2025
  
• Going Solo: How to Plan for Retirement When You’re on Your Own By Diane Harris, The New York Times, September 21, 2024
• You’re Retired. What’s the Best Way to Withdraw Your Savings? By Brian J. O'Connor, The New York Times, December 28, 2024
  
• Why Do So Many Americans Pass Up Bigger Social Security Checks? By Peter Coy, The New York Times, November 11, 2024
  
• A look at the Social Security funding gap and ways to fix it PBS NewsHour, YouTube, August 12, 2024
  
• How Much of My Paycheck Should I Save? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, June 21, 2024
  
• Was the 401(k) a Mistake? By Michael Steinberger, The New York Times Magazine, May 8, 2024
• What to Do When Your 401(k) Leaves Something to Be Desired By Mark Miller, The New York Times, April 19, 2024
• How Much Do I Really Need to Retire? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, December 21, 2023
• How Much Should I Have in Savings? By Steve Garmhausen, The Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2023
• How to Enjoy Retirement Without Going Broke By Peter Coy, The New  York Times, August 27, 2021
• How IRAs Work And Why They Are More Popular Than 401(k)s CNBC YouTube Channel, August 12, 2021
• How 401(k) Plans Work And Why They Killed Pensions CNBC YouTube Channel, March 24, 2021
  
• The Perfect Retirement Investment Nobody Wants By Peter Coy, The New York Times, February 17, 2023
  
• For More Certainty in Your Retirement Portfolio, Consider Annuities By Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, February 7, 2023
  
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