Too Big to Save? [C-SPAN]
February 8, 2010 – 9:58 am | No Comment

Robert Pozen looks at the causes of the 2008 financial collapse and says that the financial system needs to be reformed so that we don’t see a repeat down the road. He argues for changing the incentive system on Wall Street and calls for strengthening the government regulation of financial markets. (1 hours, 9 minutes)

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A case of regulatory jitters [Boston Globe]
May 2, 2010 – 4:48 am | No Comment

Local banks, insurers, financial firms brace for a new regimen of rules. Tracking these investments [derivatives] is critical, according to many observers. More important even than putting them on an exchange, said Pozen, the chairman of MFS Investment Management, is having a central clearing firm that processes those trades and can be examined by regulators.

To stop another crisis, everyone’s got to have a stake [Boston Globe]
December 13, 2009 – 9:58 am | No Comment
To stop another crisis, everyone’s got to have a stake [Boston Globe]

By Robert Gavin. Robert Pozen, chairman of Boston mutual fund firm MFS Investment Management, recently published a new book, “Too Big to Save?,’’ which explores the global financial crisis and the steps needed to reform the US financial system.

Making the ‘public option’ a simple one [Boston Globe]
October 10, 2009 – 9:30 am | Comments Off
Making the ‘public option’ a simple one [Boston Globe]

Within the context of state-based Connectors implementing the individual mandate, the most viable definition of the public option is a state-based health care plan currently serving governmental employees. That approach would sidestep the ideological debate, while helping to achieve the consensus goal of constraining health care costs.