Antoinette Schoar

Professor Antoinette Schoar from MIT Sloan discusses target date funds, financial literacy, crypto trading, and private equity in an insightful conversation. She highlights the impact of target date funds on retirement savings, biases in financial advisor recommendations, and challenges in private equity investments. The discussion also delves into individual beliefs affecting investment decisions, household risk perception in housing investments, and the importance of regulation in maintaining market stability.

Antoinette Schor, an economist from MIT's Sloan School of Management, dives into the complexities of blockchain technology. She discusses how blockchain could revolutionize power dynamics, shifting control from corporations to users. Schor highlights the challenges of implementing decentralized finance and the implications of digital currencies. The conversation also touches on the necessity of new evaluation metrics for crypto, the historical context of regulations, and a humorous tale of a failed NFT rocket launch, illustrating the unpredictable nature of this emerging landscape.