AEI Experts on Debit Swipe Fees
Alex J. Pollock, Alex Brill | AEI press
June 28, 2011

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On Wednesday June 29, the Federal Reserve board is set to meet to consider a final rule to limit the amount banks can charge merchants when a debit card is used. This rule was required by the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill and has been a major point of contention.

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholars are available to comment on this new regulation.

Alex Brill is a former senior adviser and chief economist to the House Ways and Means Committee. He also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

Contact: alex.brill@aei.org- 202.862.5931

Assistant: Chad Hill chad.hill@aei.org- 202.862.5862

Alex Pollock is a former president and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.

Contact: 202.862.7190 or jesse.blumenthal@aei.org

For additional assistance in reaching any of the scholars and for all other media inquiries, please contact Jesse Blumenthal at jesse.blumenthal@aei.org 202.862.4870.

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About the Author

 

Alex J.
Pollock
  • Alex Pollock joined AEI in 2004 after thirty-five years in banking. He was president and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago from 1991 to 2004. He is the author of numerous articles on financial systems and the organizer of the “Deflating Bubble” series of AEI conferences. In 2007, he developed a one-page mortgage form to help borrowers understand their mortgage obligations. At AEI, he focuses on financial policy issues, including housing finance, government-sponsored enterprises, retirement finance, corporate governance, accounting standards, and the banking system. He is the lead director of CME Group, a director of Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and the International Union for Housing Finance, and chairman of the board of the Great Books Foundation.

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  • Phone: 2028627190
    Email: apollock@aei.org

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    Name: Emily Rapp
    Phone: (202) 419-5212
    Email: emily.rapp@aei.org
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Alex
Brill

  • Alex Brill is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies the impact of tax policy on the US economy as well as the fiscal, economic, and political consequences of tax, budget, health care, retirement security, and trade policies. He also works on health care reform, pharmaceutical spending and drug innovation, and unemployment insurance reform. Brill is the author of a pro-growth proposal to reduce the corporate tax rate to 25 percent, and “The Real Tax Burden: More than Dollars and Cents” (2011), coauthored with Alan D. Viard. He has testified numerous times before Congress on tax policy, labor markets and unemployment insurance, Social Security reform, fiscal stimulus, the manufacturing sector, and biologic drug competition.

    Before joining AEI, Brill served as the policy director and chief economist of the House Ways and Means Committee. Previously, he served on the staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He has also served on the staff of the President's Fiscal Commission (Simpson-Bowles) and the Republican Platform Committee (2008).

    Brill has an M.A. in mathematical finance from Boston University and a B.A. in economics from Tufts University.

  • Phone: 202-862-5931
    Email: alex.brill@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Brittany Pineros
    Phone: 202-862-5926
    Email: brittany.pineros@aei.org
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