Editors at National Review Online urge the Trump administration to avoid a major mistake with federal housing policy. The Trump administration wants an IPO for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…
Editors at National Review Online ponder a recent high-profile bank failure. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank should not have been a surprise to financial executives and bank regulators. They…
E.J. Antoni writes for the Daily Caller about one economic signal that could spell trouble for Democrats in November. When it comes to gauging the country’s economic health, the media…
How does the Federal Reserve “control” interest rates, and how are their actions related to inflation?
The Big Short, ironically, opens with an apocryphal Mark Twain epigraph: “It ain’t what you know that gets you in trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so”…
Desmond Lachman warns in a U.S. News column that no one really knows what’s likely to happen when the Federal Reserve reverses course. Perhaps as early as September, the Fed…
Last week the Wall Street Journal posted an opinion piece by Andy Koenig, in which the policy adivsor for Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce complained that: The [Obama] administration’s multiyear…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column contends that the Obama administration’s disrespect for the rule of law has hit a new low. The lawlessness of the Obama administration has been astounding.…
Gene Epstein of Barron’s devotes his latest column to the Federal Reserve’s continued exploration of uncharted territory. The Fed used to observe the tradition of mainly limiting its buying and…
Former FDIC chair Sheila Bair devotes a column in the latest Fortune magazine to the topic of getting rid of two of the key players in the housing market collapse.…
The recent housing crisis convinced many people that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac caused too many problems to be allowed to continue in their current structure. But as Jim McTague…
N.C. bankers support Sen. Kay Hagan’s co-sponsored bill to replace Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae with a new government agency to guarantee home loans. Lengthy analysis here, but the bottom…