684. He Helped Clean Up the Last Crash. Does He See Another One Coming?
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Former S.E.C. chair Gary Gensler has had a front-row seat to numerous financial booms and busts. How does he feel about America’s massive bet on A.I.? “Something has to give.”
- SOURCES:
- Gary Gensler, professor of the practice of global economics, management, and finance at M.I.T.
- RESOURCES:
- This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (2011).
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Former S.E.C. chair Gary Gensler has had a front-row seat to numerous financial booms and busts. How does he feel about America’s massive bet on A.I.? “Something has to give.”