GDP growth depends on infrastructure.  Yet, the U.S. has under invested in our essential public infrastructure for decades – the quality of our infrastructure is rated “D” and the estimated under funding exceeds $150 billion annually.  In the US, local governments shoulder the majority of the burden and infrastructure investment has been crowded out by…

As uncertainly about COVID-19 persists, financial markets around the world have staggered. The global economic damage is already evident and represents the largest economic shock the world has experienced in decades. Governments continue to support the economic recovery and asset prices via an unprecedented amount of liquidity and fiscal stimulus. There is much uncertainty and…

Volatility often creates opportunity. Join industry professionals from the derivatives space as they assess pricing and liquidity in today’s options market. Various hedging and income strategies will be discussed along with associated costs. Learn how the markets have recently behaved and what may lie ahead. Are implied volatilities fairly priced, are skews too steep, should…

Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve was recently quoted saying “An aging population is driving demand for bonds, pushing their yields lower. We’re so used to the idea that we don’t have negative interest rates, but if you get a significant change in the attitude of the population,…

Join Sheila C. Bair, Founding Chair of the Systemic Risk Council, and Former Chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Jeremy Stein, former Federal Reserve Board Governor, Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University to discuss their thoughts on the economic impacts of COVID-19, the state…