Financial Regulation

News and Commentary Diego Zuluaga writes at Cato Institute about recent trends in America’s housing finance system. He notes that expected costs for mortgage servicers can differ widely depending on [...]

News and Commentary President Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed published an article on the CARES Act and how relief bills should be structured in the light of the 2008 [...]

News and Commentary Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle writes about the limits of the Fed in addressing the economic crisis. Fortunately, Congress has since taken action but time will tell [...]

News and Commentary A new article at CEPR’s Vox details the role of shadow banking in the European economy. The author notes that as shadow banking grows, it will slowly [...]

News and Commentary The Bank of England announced economic measures as households and businesses brace for the Covid-19 epidemic. The measures include a cut to interest rates, more generous lending [...]

News and Commentary Elizabeth Dexheimer at Bloomberg writes on Mark Calabria, the director of U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency. Calabria faces several challenges in determining the future of Fannie and [...]

News and Commentary Liberty Street Economics has a new blog post on subprime borrowing and the 2000s housing boom. The authors find house price growth was negatively correlated with growth [...]

News and Commentary Bill Nelson and Greg Baer at the Bank Policy Institute argue the Fed Board should set the reserve requirement to zero and is legally required to do [...]

News and Commentary The Cato Institute's Daily Podcast has Diego Zuluaga discuss recent changes to mortgage lending rules. You can listen to it here. Zuluaga has also gone on the [...]

News and Commentary David Roberts of Vox covers a new climate change paper from The Great Democracy Initiative at the Roosevelt Institute. The paper argues that Dodd-Frank's Section 165 and [...]