Despite both the recent release of a set of "GSE reform principles" by the Mortgage Bankers Association and Treasury Secretary Designee Steven Mnuchin's promise to prioritize reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as matters stand such reform seems likely to remain stalled for some time: while…
After spending some years in both legislative and regulatory policy roles, I've come to even more strongly believe that almost everything you really need to understand regulation can be found in Peltzman's classic 1976 extension of Stigler's original economic model of regulation. Almost everything. What I find lacking is recognition…
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently appeared before the Senate Banking Committee to deliver the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress. A handful of Senators queried Yellen as to the lack of diversity among both the Fed staff and the members of the Federal Open Market…
My previous post, inquiring as to the actual impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on bank capital, elicited some comments, mainly in the form of tweets, from Dodd-Frank's defenders. Here are some of the issues raised, along with my response. A tweet from former Schumer staffer and current…
Financial reform has taken a prominent role in the current presidential debates, particularly between Clinton and Sanders. As Clinton is seen as the candidate of the status quo, her defenders have taken to arguing that the Dodd-Frank Act is "working." A recent example of such an argument…