Publications
Members of Congress whose financial markets credo begins with “I believe in the Dodd-Frank Act,” experience severe cognitive dissonance when faced with the systemic financial risk created by…
The Senate Banking Committee held a hearing this summer on whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be designated as systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). Absolutely nobody there,…
From Inside Sources:
In a study released last year, R Street Institute scholars R.J. Lehmann and Daniel Semelsberger found that California is home to approximately two-thirds of Fannie Mea and…
The U.S. came out of the 2007-12 housing bust with a housing finance system even more government-centric than it was before, because the Government completely took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by…
From S&P Global:
“Fannie and Freddie continue to represent giant moral hazard, as they always have,” Alex Pollock, a senior fellow at the Washington think tank R Street Institute, said in an…
American residential mortgage finance is the second-largest credit market in the world, behind only U.S. Treasury debt. Its immense size, at $10.4 trillion in outstanding loans, perhaps alone…
From DS News:
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing on Tuesday titled “Should Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac be Designated as Systemically Important Financial…
From Global Capital Euroweek:
While Holtz-Eakin and R Street Institute senior fellow Alex Pollock agreed on the SIFI designation, a dissenting view was represented by Susan Wachter, professor of…
From National Mortgage News:
Both Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the president of the American Action Forum, and Alex Pollock, a distinguished senior fellow at the R Street Institute, argued that Fannie and…
From Congressional Record:
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be designated as systematically…