Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Evergrande's bust portends China's bursting real estate bubble

October 19, 2021

All eyes are on Chinese property giant Evergrande this week as it approaches the deadline to settle interest payments on its offshore bonds. Will Cong and Robert Hockett weigh in on the situation and what may happen if Evergrande defaults.

International
Economics and Business
Law School
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Cryptocurrency dive indicative of greater market downturn

September 23, 2021

Bitcoin, Ethereum and dogecoin are falling as cryptocurrency gets caught up in the Evergrande selloff. 

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Law School

Bitcoin ‘too volatile’ for national currency in El Salvador

September 7, 2021

Robert Hockett and Will Cong weigh in on El Salvador becoming the first country to make bitcoin ‘legal tender,’ alongside the U.S. dollar.

Economics and Business
Law School
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Johnson Graduate School of Management

GameStop chaos offers test of post-2008 financial regime

January 29, 2021

Robert Hockett, professor of law, says the volatility introduced by the GameStop gambit will test the financial system and its protection of the 'real' economy. 

Law and Policy

US-China summit: ‘It's so cold in Alaska’

March 17, 2021

Top officials from the U.S. and China will meet in Anchorage on Thursday and Friday for the first high level summit after President Biden took office. Cornell University experts, Allen Carlson and Robert Hockett, are available to discuss the political and economic implications of the summit.

International
Arts and Sciences
Law School
Allen Carlson

GameStop hearing: how trillions flowed to a 'high-stakes poker game'

February 16, 2021

On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee will host a hearing to discuss the recent GameStop stock speculation. The committee will hear from the CEO of Robinhood and other financial service apps that contributed to pushing the stock price of the gaming retailer to record highs. Cornell professors Scott Yonker and Robert Hockett comment on the upcoming hearing. 

Economics and Business

Pandemic-driven digital fiat currencies to sound Bitcoin’s ‘death knell’

May 6, 2020

Robert Hockett, professor of law and an expert in financial and monetary law and economics, Will Cong, professor of finance and an expert on financial technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and Emin Gün Sirer, professor of computer science and founder and CEO of AVA, comment on the future health of Bitcoin as it approaches a slowing of its token creation rate, known as a halving.

Law and Policy
Economics and Business
Emin Gün Sirer