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Financial Crises

What Did the Last Four Years Teach Us about Managing Inflation?

William English, a professor in the practice of finance and a former economist at the Federal Reserve, discusses lessons learned from central banks’ responses to four-plus years of extraordinary economic disruption.

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  • What Will Trigger the Next Financial Crisis?

    Experts offer their take on where the next crisis will come from. They’ve seen the risk, and it is us.

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  • Is Our Financial System Still at Risk?

    Yale’s Andrew Metrick discusses what we learned from the last financial crisis and areas of concern for the future.

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  • Fighting the Next Global Financial Crisis

    Yale SOM’s Robert Shiller warns that the shifts in public psychology that can spark instability are not easily anticipated.

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  • Did Culture Cause the Financial Crisis?

    Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller says that an event on the magnitude of the 2008-2009 financial crisis has to have many causes, but he sees “the spirit of the times” as a driving force behind many of them. In a lecture at Yale SOM, he described how he sees this spirit acting in everything from Fed policy to the growth in casinos.