As policymakers begin to rethink the current financial regulatory regime, it is important to reconsider the relation between banking regulation, financial stability, and economic vitality. With this in mind, we focused this year's Cato Summit on Financial Regulation on banking and brought it to one of the…
Futures Unbound, this year's Cato-CMFA Summit on Financial Regulation, took place in Chicago on June 6th. The event consisted of lectures from five speakers; Congressman Blaine Leutkemeyer, CMFA's Thaya Brook Knight and George Selgin, the Federal Reserve's Thomas Sullivan, and University of Chicago Law Professor Omri-Ben Shahar….
On Tuesday, John Allison, chair of CMFA's executive advisory board, former president of Cato, and 20-year CEO of BB&T, testified before the House Financial Services Committee. The hearing was on the recently proposed Financial CHOICE Act, which aims to reform Dodd-Frank. Beyond discussing the potential efficacy of that bill, Allison's testimony…
The Heritage Foundation recently released a policy book, The Case Against Dodd-Frank: How the Consumer Protection Law Endangers Americans. The book consists of a title-by-title examination of Dodd-Frank, with each book chapter more or less corresponding to one of Dodd-Frank's titles. CMFA's Mark Calabria and Thaya Brook…
Michael Bordo, John Duca, and Christoffer Koch recently produced a Cato Institute Research Brief on how policy uncertainty affects bank lending. The Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy series allows economic researchers to write an accessible 2,000 word summary of an academic article that cuts through the…