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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…
Washington (September 18) – Earthquakes are among the most devastating and economically destructive natural disasters. Yet, unlike other common perils such as floods, fires and windstorms, the…
With another Northridge-size quake a near certainty over the next 30 years, and with the potential for losses that could top $300 billion, the time has come to take a hard look at all of the…
From AirTalk:
But actually, about 87 percent of homeowners do not have earthquake insurance — and a new report from free-market think tank R Street Institute looks at what implications that might…