White House Counsel, Resident Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute
Peter Wallison of the American Enterprise Institute explains in Hillsdale College’s Imprimis why the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation represented the wrong response to the 2008 financial crisis. … [T]he crisis…
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…
Peter Wallison and Cornelius Hurley argue in this excellent Forbes article that it would be highly beneficial for the country if Washington dumped the TBTF idea, which causes banks to…
Peter Wallison of the American Enterprise Institute here calls out Barney Frank for his continuing duplicity about the housing bubble. Frank wants people to believe that the foolish (and bipartisan)…
Peter Wallison argues in this USA Today piece that Fannie and Freddie are to blame. We hear all the time that it was caused by “deregulation” but a) the regulatory…
AEI’s Peter Wallison draws the comparison here. As he writes, the parallels are clear for anyone who wants to look. The trouble, of course, is that all our admirers of…
Michael Barone‘s latest piece for the Washington Examiner offers Republicans advice for tackling Democrats’ proposed financial regulations. The real heart of the Dodd bill is the provision creating a $50…
Responding to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal — an article written in response to Barney Frank’s idea that we need a new federal regulator to control systemic risk…
The line the Democrats have been using to shift blame for the financial crisis — that it was due to deregulation and laissez-faire philosophy of the Republicans — is unraveling.…
While the Hagan campaign criticizes Elizabeth Dole for being “unwilling to take the lead in introducing the bills she refers to regarding the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,”…
Don Boudreaux sends this letter to the New York Times (which is almost certainly futile since the Times rarely runs letters from those who don’t share its statist views, but…