News and Commentary The Cato Institute's Jennifer Schulp testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on retail investor activity during COVID-19. Hans Gersbach opines in a VoxEU column that [...]
News and Commentary Daniel Sherlock and Matthew Larvick detail final IRS regulations modifying long-term capital gains treatment in The National Law Review. Kevin Wack presents the controversy over potential for [...]
News and Commentary The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation initially required $3 billion in additional collateral from Robinhood, after which the online brokerage firm restricted trades of certain stocks reports [...]
News and Commentary Allan Malz reviews The Rise of Carry for Cato Journal; the book uses the carry trade to analyze how monetary policy can encourage excessive leverage. Jennifer Schulp [...]
News and Commentary Gary Gensler, President Biden's appointee to SEC Chair, may pursue aggressive fintech regulation during his tenure writes Raha Foroohar at Financial Times. Shaked Barkay highlights the debate [...]
News and Commentary JDSupra's legal news highlights Biden administrative appointments indicative of strong support for financial technology and hardened financial regulation. American Action Forum president Douglas Holtz-Eakin is skeptical that [...]
News and Commentary Hannah Lang previews the Federal Housing Finance Agency's finalized capital requirements for Fannie May and Freddie Mac in American Banker. The requirements have risen since May as [...]
News and Commentary Robert Schmidt, Jesse Hamilton, and Yalman Onaran trace Joe Biden’s dual task of pleasing Wall Street and his party’s more progressive figures on financial regulation. Tension could [...]
News and Commentary Sylvan Lane describes the Public Banking Act's proposed federal banking system establishment in the Hill. Greg Iacurci reviews Joe Biden's likely top picks for director of the [...]
News and Commentary Michael Barr, Howell Jackson, and Margaret Tahyar opine in The Regulatory Review that the Main Street Lending Program and other Federal ex post facto COVID induced recession [...]