Financial Services Outlook
April 13, 2004

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AEI's monthly newsletter on current issues in financial services, including banking, insurance, and securities. Also of interest: AEI's work on the housing GSEs.

Financial Services Outlook

2009

January: Regulation without Reason: The Group of Thirty Report, by Peter J. Wallison

2008

December: Everything You Wanted to Know about Credit Default Swaps--but Were Never Told, by Peter J. Wallison
November: Cause and Effect: Government Policies and the Financial Crisis, by Peter J. Wallison
October: Systemic Risk and the Financial Crisis, by Peter J. Wallison
September: The Last Trillion-Dollar Commitment, by Peter J. Wallison and Charles W. Calomiris
August: Fannie and Freddie by Twilight, by Peter J. Wallison
July: Fair Value Accounting: A Critique, by Peter J. Wallison
June: For Financial Regulation, the Era of Big Government Really Is Over, by Peter J. Wallison
May: The Human Foundations of Financial Risk, by Alex J. Pollock
April: Bear Facts: The Flawed Case for Tighter Regulation of Securities Firms, by Peter J. Wallison
March: Dangerous Dithering: Congressional Inaction Plants the Seeds of Crisis, by Peter J. Wallison
February: Healthy Hedge Funds, Sick Banks, by Peter J. Wallison
January: The FDIC on the Spot, by Peter J. Wallison


2007

December: Crisis Intervention in Housing Finance: The Home Owners' Loan Corporation, by Alex J. Pollock
November - Thinking Ahead: Treasury Prepares to Lay Down a Marker for the Future (Part 2), by Peter J. Wallison
October - Thinking Ahead: Treasury Prepares to Lay Down a Marker for the Future (Part 1), by Peter J. Wallison
September - What Is, What Ain't, What Might Have Been: Chris Cox's Legacy at the SEC, by Peter J. Wallison
August - It's Not the Principle, It's the Money: The SEC and Proxy Access, by Peter J. Wallison
July - Will the Real Shareholders Please Stand Up? Principals and Agents in the Sarbanes-Oxley Era, by Alex J. Pollock
June - Fad or Reform: Can Principles-Based Regulation Work in the United States? by Peter J. Wallison
May - Price Competition: A Better Way to Reduce Mutual Fund Costs, by Peter J. Wallison
April - Hostages to Fortune: A Change in the Audit Certification Can Reduce Auditors' Risks, by Peter J. Wallison
March - The Sorcerer, the Apprentice, and the Broom: What to Do About Private Securities Class Actions, by Peter J. Wallison
February - Does Anyone Here Know How to Play This Game? The SEC, Regulation FD, and the Global Settlement, by Peter J. Wallison
January - Has the FASB Outlived Its Usefulness? by Alex J. Pollock

2006

December - Are Corporations Democracies? by Peter J. Wallison
November - A Bridge Too Far: The Basel II Bank Capital Accord, by Peter J. Wallison
October - Groundhog Day: Reliving Deregulation Debates, by Peter J. Wallison
September - Retirement Finance: Old Ideas, New Reality, by Alex J. Pollock
August - The Canary in the Coal Mine: What the Growth of Foreign Securities Markets and Foreign Financing Should Be Telling Congress and the SEC, by Peter J. Wallison
July - Moral Hazard on Steroids, by Peter J. Wallison
June - Addressing the Insolvency of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, by Alex J. Pollock
May - Landmark Ruling, by Peter J. Wallison
April - Only Skin Deep, by Peter J. Wallison
March - Competitive Equity, by Peter J. Wallison
February - What Should Society Want from Corporate Governance? by Alex J. Pollock
January - All the Rage, by Peter J. Wallison

2005

December - Dead Man Walking, by Peter J. Wallison
November - Revoke All Perpetual GSE Charters, by Alex J. Pollock
October - Buried Treasure: A Court Rediscovers a Congressional Mandate the SEC Has Ignored, by Peter J. Wallison
September - Regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Now It Gets Serious (Continued), by Peter J. Wallison
August - Why Do We Regulate Banks?, by Peter J. Wallison
July - From Making Judgments to Following Rules, by Alex J. Pollock
June - Sarbanes-Oxley and the Ebbers Conviction, by Peter J. Wallison
May - Regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Now It Gets Serious, by Peter J. Wallison
April - The Government Should Not Try to Promote "Investor Confidence", by Alex J. Pollock
March - The WorldCom and Enron Settlements: Politics Rears its Ugly Head, by Peter J. Wallison
February - Rein in the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, by Peter J. Wallison
January - End the Government-Sponsored Cartel in Credit Ratings, by Alex J. Pollock

2004

December - Reform of Securities-Market Structure: The SEC Rejects Competition, by Peter J. Wallison
November - The Next Steps in Reforming the Housing GSEs: Creating the Common Regulator and Enhancing Competition, by Alex J. Pollock
October - Shooting from the Hip: The SEC Has Stopped Doing Its Homework, by Peter J. Wallison
September - Better Business Reporting for Investors: Help Is on the Way, by Peter J. Wallison
August - The Housing GSEs: Through Competition to Privatization, by Alex J. Pollock
July - The SEC and Market Structure Reform, by Peter J. Wallison
June - Sarbanes-Oxley As an Inside-the-Beltway Phenomenon, by Peter J. Wallison
May - The Case for Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Grows Stronger, by Peter J. Wallison
April - The SEC's Proposed Shareholder Voting Rule, by Peter J. Wallison

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