Up until today, this website has served as a collection for various op-eds and other articles that I have written for publications like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Those articles will stay—you can find them by clicking on the “articles” tab in the menu. But now that I have a little bit more time on my hands, with only one full-time job instead of two, I have decided that it is time to start blogging.

Throughout my work, I come across interesting and thought-provoking news stories that apply to my fields of expertise, and a blog is really the best way to pass them along to you, together with my analysis. I will also occasionally provide some original analysis or ideas. These grow out of my unique role straddling the worlds of private business (as former Chairman of MFS Investment Management), academia (as Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School), and government (through advisory roles in the Romney administration and as head of the SEC).

You should expect to see material on many issues. In the past, I’ve written about:

• Financial regulation: How should the ratings agencies be reformed?
• The mutual fund industry: How are money market funds being affected by low interest rates and new regulation?
• Tax policy: How should the tax code be reformed?
• Many other issues of public and fiscal policy: What adjustments need to be made to Social Security, and how can these pass Congress?
• Also, I should mention that I wrote an article for the HBR about personal productivity (pdf) about a year ago. That article has gotten a fair bit of play, so I’ll make sure to keep passing on my thoughts on how to become more productive, personally and professionally.

I’ll do my best to post as often as I can. I hope this blog can be helpful to policy wonks, aspiring professionals, and members of the financial industry.