Archive for February 2nd, 2009

It’s Time to Hit the Reset Button

Our financial crisis came about because of flawed thinking about how to help the poor. Financially sophisticated parents would never tell their children to borrow to the ceiling to buy a house or anything else. And yet, lawmakers thought that the way to help the poor was to encourage them to borrow heavily. The mass inducement [...]

February 2nd, 2009 - By Joetta Forsyth, PhD, Assistant Professor of Finance