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Brooksley Born is the former chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Prof. Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., a co-founder of BaselineScenario.com (a much cited website on the global economy), a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers, and a member of the FDIC's Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the private sector systemic risk council founded and chaired by Sheila Bair in 2012. Prof. Johnson is a weekly contributor to NYT.com's Economix, is a regular Bloomberg columnist, has a monthly article with Project Syndicate that runs in publications around the world, and has published high impact opinion pieces recently in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Republic, BusinessWeek and The Financial Times, among other places. In January 2010, he joined The Huffington Post as contributing business editor. Professor Johnson is the co-author, with James Kwak, of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown, a bestselling assessment of the dangers now posed by the U.S. financial sector (published March 2010) and White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt and Why it Matters to You (April 2012). In his roles as a professor, research fellow and author, Professor Johnson's speaking engagements include paid appearances before various business groups, including financial institutions and other companies, as well before other groups that may have a political agenda. He is not on the board of any company, does not currently serve as a consultant to anyone, and does not work as an expert witness or conduct sponsored research. His investment portfolio comprises cash and broadly diversified mutual funds; he does not trade stocks, bonds, derivatives or other financial products actively. From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, Prof. Johnson was the International Monetary Fund's Economic Counselor (chief economist) and Director of its Research Department. He is a co-director of the NBER Africa Project, and works with nonprofits and think tanks around the world. Johnson holds a B.A. in economics and politics from the University of Oxford, an M.A. in economics from the University of Manchester, and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.

Primary bond market volume was up 3.6% year-over-year to $49.9 billion, according to LSEG data.

Johnny Poulsen is the CEO of Income Lab, a company that wants to revolutionize the way retirement is planned and experienced.

With over two decades of experience in financial services, Poulsen co-founded Income Lab to equip advisors with better tools to help clients retire with clarity and confidence.

State governments would either have to spend more or fewer people would be covered, or a combination of the two, under the GOP's Medicaid and SNAP cuts.

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Sam Krishnamurthy is the Chief Technology Officer for Turvi.

Daniel Fagan, MSPFP, MPA, AIF, is managing partner at Radiant Wealth Management, an independent firm in Connecticut specializing in financial planning for academics, physicians and high net worth families.

He previously spent 17 years at TIAA advising faculty at top universities including Yale, UConn, Wesleyan and other leading institutions.

Russell Curzon has over 20 years of commercial experience in the payments industry. As vice president of commercial sales at Nuvei, Curzon and his team are building Nuvei's market share in the UK and Ireland and helping businesses with Nuvei's next-generation payments technology.

The Indiana Financing Authority is the biggest entry on 2025's largest negotiated calendar with $1.5 billion of Indiana University Health system revenue bonds.

Chinese students comprise nearly half of international students attending University of California schools.

The $44 million of unrated bonds, placed only with qualified investors, feature 9.5% coupons.

The Senate returns to Washington with a ticking deadline clock to turn the House's One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law with questions remaining about the future of the SALT cap deduction and green energy tax credits.

Sean Graham is a registered CPA, real estate investor and founder of Maven Cost Segregation. With a background in public accounting, tax strategy, and private equity, he helps real estate investors unlock major tax savings through cost segregation studies. Through Maven Cost Segregation, he brings institutional-grade strategies to everyday investors — making it simple and affordable to accelerate depreciation and reduce taxable income.

Main Street Natural Gas, a blended component unit of Georgia Gas, issues most of the authority's debt.

A new law lifts the revenue bond cap for the Grand River Dam Authority to $3.6 billion from $1.41 billion

UMB hired 13 people from Wilmington Trust, and opened an Orange County office, to expand in municipal and corporate trustee, escrow and paying-agent services.