Publications
Alex J. Pollock and Thomas H. Stanton
Washington…
From National Mortgage News:
“If you think about the risk of the activity, guaranteeing half the mortgage market, which is their whole business and political purpose, then I think it leads you…
Taking up a key issue in housing finance reform, one within his control as the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Mark Calabria told a conference recently that Fannie Mae and…
From Forbes:
Not invited to the hearings were free-market think tanks such as The Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Cato, R-Street, Mercatus, and the Competitive Enterprise…
In a recent White House memorandum, President Trump said, “It is time for the United States to reform its housing finance system.” He is right about that. He is also right about…
The giant U.S. government-guaranteed mortgage companies,
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were and are unique features of American housing
finance compared to other countries. In the days before their…
Kevin Erdmann of the Mercatus Center joins R Street’s Josiah…
On behalf of National Taxpayers Union, R Street Institute, Citizens Against Government Waste, Institute for Liberty and Taxpayers Protection Alliance (“the undersigned”), we respectfully submit…
Banking always involves political economy,
as professor Mark Rose observes, or as we might more precisely say, political
finance. This is the central lesson of Rose’s Market…
From Forbes:
Another reason for ending the sweep would be that the Treasury has already been paid back its $187.5 billion injection plus the 10% compound dividend payments required…