Experts Available: Does Too Big to Fail still exist under Dodd-Frank?
Peter J. Wallison, Alex J. Pollock, Phillip Swagel
June 26, 2013

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With the House Financial Services Committee holding a hearing on whether 'too big to fail' still exists under Dodd-Frank, AEI has a number of finance experts available for comment or to speak on background for this ongoing issue. 

Peter J. Wallison, a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in 2009 and the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies, writes that too many questions remain unanswered to break up the big banks, including:
•    1) Is 'Too Big to Fail' (TBTF) even real?
•    2) What Size Makes a Firm Not Too Big to Fail?
•    3) Are We Going to Break Up Nonbanks, Too?
•    4)  What Would It Mean to Break Up the Biggest Banks?
•    5) What's Wrong with Dodd-Frank?
Click here to read his full report, "Breaking up the Big Banks: Is Anybody Thinking?"

Alex J. Pollock, a research fellow at AEI and a former president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, writes that by Mr. Jim Bullard's logic, we should also be breaking up the Federal Reserve.

Phillip Swagel, visiting fellow at AEI and former assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury, takes on the notion of TBTF.

To set up an interview with one of the financial services experts, please contact mediaservices@aei.org or 202.862.5829.

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  • 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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  • Phillip Swagel, an economist and academic, was assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department from 2006 to 2009, where he was responsible for analysis on a wide range of economic issues, including policies relating to the financial crisis and the Troubled Asset Relief Program. He has also served as chief of staff and senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund. He is concurrently a professor of international economics at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy.  He has previously taught at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and Georgetown University. Mr. Swagel works on both domestic and international economic issues at AEI.  His research topics include financial markets reform, international trade policy, and the role of China in the global economy.


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