Reena Aggarwal Appointed to Biden-Harris Transition Team
January 15th, 2021
Reena Aggarwal, Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance and director, Center for Financial Markets and Policy, is serving on the Biden-Harris …
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Coindesk Names Georgetown a Top University for Blockchain
January 5th, 2021
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business was named a top school for blockchain by Coindesk, a media platform that focuses on how crypto…
The Dow has Passed 30,000 for the First Time Ever
November 24th, 2020
Today’s historic news “signals that investors are a lot more confident about the future than the present,” says Arthur Dong, professor of practice at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. But he adds that the measure’s rise has little impact on small businesses. “There is disconnect between what happens on Wall Street and Main Street. The pain on Main Street continues to persist.”
SEC Chairman Clayton to Step Down
November 16th, 2020
James Angel, associate professor of finance at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, told ThinkAdvisor Monday in an email that he doubts “the lame duck Trump administration will try to ram through his [Clayton’s] nomination” to the Southern District of New York post.