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Financial Services
By Alex J. Pollock
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Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The Troubled Asset Relief Program should be run like a business with a goal of returning as much of the involuntary investment as possible to its owners--the taxpayers--along with a reasonable overall profit.
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All Sarbanes-Oxley's efforts to control risk did not avoid the tremendous financial bubble and bust of the last several years.
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Current financial reform proposals would establish "too big to fail" as national policy.
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After having observed financial regulation fail time after time, its adherents still believe that it will work next time if we just make it more pervasive and more intrusive.
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Despite reassurances about the fiscal stimulus package last February, the U.S. economy has lost around 3.5 million jobs since the start of 2009.
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The administration's rationale for setting up a government-run resolution authority--to the extent that it is based on the idea that the interconnectedness of Lehman caused the financial crisis--is not well founded.
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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.
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By AEI Staff
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AEI People and Programs
Friday, October 30, 2009
This issue covers the health care debate, the Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index, the swine flu and more.
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Sometimes people ask if I miss working for the Federal Reserve. Perhaps if it continues expanding its fiefdom.
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Is economic growth the highest priority in Obama's Washington?
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
