This essay is a manifesto expounding the relevance of the critical theory of Paul Virilio to critical criminology. I interpret the global credit crisis as a criminogenic ‘event', explicable in terms of Virilio's theory of speed-politics. The trans-national space(s) of globalization are...

A new analysis in our Making Ends Meet survey series looks at the early impact of COVID-19 on the financial status of consumers. The results show that fewer consumers had difficulty paying a bill in the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic than one year earlier and that both credit scores and...

Buildings consume 75% of U.S. electricity; therefore, improving the efficiency and flexibility of building operations could increase the reliability and resilience of the rapidly-changing electricity system. We estimate the technical potential near- and long-term impacts of best available...

This report examines how financial conditions faced by renters evolved, relative to those faced by homeowners, over the course of the pandemic using two waves of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Making Ends Meet survey and its association with consumer credit data. The Bureau...

Consumers are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic into an economically tumultuous period marked by high inflation and other threats to financial security. How has the financial standing of America’s consumers, including those who are economically distressed, changed in response to the economic...

Many consumers struggle to afford the costs of essential medical services. To bring more focus to the impact of medical bills and collections on consumers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is releasing reports and blogs over the next several months discussing the key financial...

In 2022, consumer financial health continued to be buoyed by pandemic relief, high employment, and increased savings accumulated during the first year of the pandemic. But financial health was no longer as high as it was during the first year of the pandemic. Average financial well-being had...

I propose a new benchmark to evaluate hedge fund performance: the returns to shorting CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) futures. The informativeness of this benchmark leads to a new methodology that is able to predict hedge fund performance. Specifically, it separates hedge funds, ex-ante, into one...