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 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…
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…
Testimony of
Alex J. Pollock
Distinguished Senior Fellow
R Street Institute
Washington, DC
To the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
United States Senate
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Alex J. Pollock and Thomas H. Stanton
Washington…
From Peacefare:
On June 4 the American Enterprise Institute hosted a panel discussion titled “Europe’s Populist and Brexit Economic Challenge” moderated by Alex J. Pollock of the R Street…