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DEI Can Be Justified, But Not by Better Profits

DEI Can Be Justified, But Not by Better Profits
03.02.2025 10

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

More Risk, Less Reward: Welcome to the New World Order

More Risk, Less Reward: Welcome to the New World Order
29.01.2025 2

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Private Equity Does Not Belong in Your 401(k)

Private Equity Does Not Belong in Your 401(k)

“It is the holy grail,” the man said to me in a solemn tone. He worked in private equity, and he was referring to the 401(k) market. We were just...

24.01.2025 9

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Is It Better to Have High Growth or Low Debt?

Is It Better to Have High Growth or Low Debt?

To paraphrase that famous poem, I look on America’s debt burden and despair. Both Republicans and Democrats like to say they are serious about debt...

21.01.2025 5

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Private Equity Does Not Belong in Your 401(k)

“It is the holy grail,” the man said to me in a solemn tone. He worked in private equity, and he was referring to the 401(k) market. We were just...

14.01.2025 6

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Good Debt? Bad Debt? There’s No Such Thing

This is part of a series of Bloomberg Opinion columns exploring the risks related to the US’s rapidly expanding debt and budget deficit. Other...

25.12.2024 5

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent? The US Economy Says Yes

President-elect Donald Trump’s latest promise is to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which would mean putting the US on Standard Time year-round....

18.12.2024 5

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Economists Are Wrong a Lot But Not About Tariffs

Many Americans are fed up with experts, and I am right there with them. I get the desire to burn it all down, I really do — except when it comes to...

13.12.2024 7

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

The Oxford Curriculum That American Universities Need

Of all the hallowed American institutions that have experienced a loss in public esteem over the last few years, perhaps none has suffered a bigger...

04.12.2024 6

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

The Art Market Needs a Restoration Project

The contemporary art market poses one of the great chicken-egg questions in all of economics: If the thing for sale has no objective value, do...

25.10.2024 2

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Populism Is Bad for Economic Growth

The degrowth movement, which had a moment a few years ago, is over — and not a moment too soon. As nations in Europe and North America face...

21.10.2024 4

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Unions Need to Join the 21st Century Economy

It is hard to be “the most pro-union president in American history,” as Joe Biden likes to claim, while also leading an effort to “reimagine and...

09.10.2024 3

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Algorithms Don’t Raise Rents, Landlords Do

A friend on dating apps recently told me she is often presented with men who are lying about their age — or rather, as they tell it, being forced...

02.10.2024 1

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Your Next Financial Adviser Will Be on an App

I see a personal trainer five days a week, and I am now in the best shape of my life. I could not have afforded Doug when I was younger — and I...

30.09.2024 1

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Wall Street Has Proven That Trust Can Be Rebuilt

America’s financial industry has long had trust issues. Never mind the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-08; mistrust of the markets dates back to at...

25.09.2024 4

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Inequality Isn’t the Problem. Uneven Growth Is.

Growing economic inequality is either “a major issue of our time” or “a defining challenge of our time,” depending on your taste for...

17.09.2024 3

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

The Fed Is No Longer the Only Game in Town

Last week’s meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole was a kind of victory lap for the Fed. It may have also marked the peak of its power. The US...

30.08.2024 3

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

How the Treasury Is More Powerful Than the Fed

Decisions made by the Treasury get much less attention than those made by the Federal Reserve, but they can be even more consequential for interest...

19.08.2024 1

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Tim Walz’s Investment Strategy Makes Him an Outlier

The big divide in America is not so much between Republicans and Democrats as between people who invest and people who don’t. For a man of his...

12.08.2024 7

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

A Recession Wouldn’t Be So Bad This Time

Turmoil in the markets has renewed fears that the US did not escape history after all, that a hard landing — a recession — is coming. Whether this...

06.08.2024 8

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

What Do Graduates of Yale Law School Know About Economics?

Yale Law School is famous for producing some of America’s leading legal minds. But in the last few years it has become notorious — at least among...

05.08.2024 20

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager

Don’t Use Economic Policy as a Tool of Foreign Policy

Democrats and Republicans may have very different ideas about taxes and spending, but at least they’re pretty much agreed on economic growth: It is...

01.08.2024 2

Bloomberg

Allison Schrager