AEI.Org: Outlook Outlooks List http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/100007?presentation=rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:48:41 +0100 http://www.aei.org:80/views/images/accountRegistration/aeismall-reg.gif AEI http://www.aei.org:80/home 50 50 AEI Deregulation and the Financial Crisis http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/100089 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> An alternative narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by U.S. government housing policies that helped create 25 milion subprime and Alt-A mortgages--47 percent of all U.S. mortgages--which are currently defaulting at unprecedented rates. </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 TARP Baby: The Administration's Resolution Authority for Nonbank Financial Firms http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/100077 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The Obama administration's proposal for a resolution authority for nonbank financial firms has a fundamental flaw. </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 Unnecessary Intervention: The Administration's Effort to Regulate Credit Default Swaps http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/100065 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The administration's proposal for regulating the credit default swaps market is unlikely to reduce systemic risk, and may in fact increase it. </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 Unfree to Choose http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/100056 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The administration's proposal for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) promises to be one of the most comprehensive and controversial pieces of regulatory legislation ever presented to Congress. </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 Advice, Not Consent http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/100050 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> A "systemic risk adviser" independent enough to point out the systemic risks being created by the government's financial actions and policies, in addition to those of private financial actors, might be a useful institution. </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 Stress for Success http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/100043 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The stress tests boosted confidence in U.S. banks, suggesting that earlier disclosure of bank balance sheet conditions would have stabilized markets sooner. </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 Reinventing GSEs http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/100027 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Neither actual conditions in the financial markets nor historical patterns call for the systemic risk and resolution system envisioned by the Obama administration's financial system reform proposal. </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 Risky Business http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/100006 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> There is an emerging consensus that the Fed should become a systemic risk regulator, but this is a bad idea, both because of the Fed's current mission and the nature of systemic risk. </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 Regulation without Reason http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/29285 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Why should regulation be extended to most of the major players in the financial system when it has been a consistent failure for banks? </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 Everything You Wanted to Know about Credit Default Swaps--but Were Never Told http://www.aei.org:80/outlook/29158 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Although thecredit default swapmarket can be improved, excessive restrictions on it would create considerably more risk than it would eliminate. </body> </html> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500 1999-11-30T00:00:00-0500