Risk Transfer
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Our organizations welcome the opportunity to provide comment on the FHFA’s 2020 Proposed Capital Rule. The R Street Institute and Taxpayers for Common Sense are both 501c3 research organizations…
WASHINGTON (July 9, 2010) – The growing fiscal burden of federal disaster spending—driven increasingly by climate change—compels lawmakers and policymakers to explore effective policies that…
There has been much talk in recent years about the need to “drain the swamp” in Washington and bring public accountability to a federal government mired in self-dealing and special interests. But…
Chairwoman Gonzalez and Members of the Committee,
My name is R.J. Lehmann and I serve as director of finance, insurance and trade policy at the R Street Institute, a free-market public-policy…
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 Mae and…
The impending strike of Tropical Storm Barry on Southeast Louisiana, coming at a moment when the Mississippi River is cresting at heights not seen since 1927, has many fearing a replay of the…
June 26, 2019
Assembly Committee on Insurance
California Assembly
RE: SB 290 Natural disasters – Insurance and related alternative risk-transfer products
Chairman…
The undersigned organizations write in support of H.R. 5381, the “Government Risk and Taxpayer Exposure Reduction Act of 2018” or the “GRATER Act of 2018,” and we ask that the House pass the…
From SeekingAlpha:
The two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) in mortgage risk, Fannie Mae (OTCQB:FNMA) (the Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (OTCQB:FMCC) (the Federal…
From Artemis:
The two government-sponsored enterprises (GSE’s) in mortgage risk, Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage…