Let's Declare a Truce in the Culture War
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| Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
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Neither faith nor science can answer the most important questions.
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Treasury's Plan Gone Awry
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| Posted: Friday, May 23, 2008 |
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The Treasury's plan for a new financial regulatory structure deserves considerable praise, but the agency did not close the circle that it opened.
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Judgment Too Important to Be Left to the Accountants
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| Posted: Thursday, May 1, 2008 |
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Just because fair-value accounting is favored by accountants does not mean that it is ideal.
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Bear Facts
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| Posted: Friday, April 11, 2008 |
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Regulating securities firms the way we regulate banks, and giving them routine access to the Fed's discount window, makes no practical or policy sense.
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Dangerous Dithering
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| Posted: Friday, March 28, 2008 |
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Congress should act soon to protect U.S. taxpayers from the risk of GSE insolvency.
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Grading Bernanke: A Symposium
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| Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
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Amid widespread financial turmoil and talk of recession, five scholars at AEI graded and assessed the Federal Reserve’s recent policy decisions.
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Collapse Shows Folly of Limiting Ownership
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| Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
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Congress has made a serious error by limiting the control of banks to companies engaged in financial activities. Hopefully the FDIC will not follow suit.
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Private Profits, Public Risks
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| Posted: Monday, March 24, 2008 |
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The fall in housing prices and mortgage values has exposed a serious flaw in the idea that private, shareholder-owned, government-sponsored enterprises, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie
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Capital Ideas
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| Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
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Lawmakers should turn their attention to persuading banks and other financial intermediaries to raise more capital.
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Obama's Well-Aged Beef
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| Posted: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 |
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Barack Obama calls for a "movement for change," but he is preaching classic liberal ideals that have been around since the New Deal.
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