THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FANNIE AND FREDDIE FOREVER Dec. 31, 2015 Washington is a place where bad ideas go to live forever. How else to explain the latest innovation from federal regulators to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dominating the market for mortgage finance? Prior to the financial crisis of 2008, these two […]
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June 28, 2015 5 Mistakes That Will Lead To The Fall of America John Hawkins 6/27/2015 8:10:00 AM – John Hawkins Thousands of years after the Roman Empire fell, people are still speculating about how such a powerful empire became too feeble to defend itself. Did it become corrupt? Was its taxes too high? Was
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WELCOME TO ILLINOIS, THE DEADBEAT STATE December 10, 2014 by Gerald Skoning Mr. Skoning is a labor and employment lawyer in Chicago Like millions of other Americans, I have spent cautiously, paid bills on time and maintained a strict budget. That doesn’t make us heroes. But it does mean
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Our Financial Crisis Amnesia Remember the S&L crisis? Nobody else does either. And we’ll soon forget about 2008 too. By Alex J. PollockMr. Pollock is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago 1991-2004. July 10, 2014
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Book Review: ‘The Map and the Territory,’ by Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan argues that Wall Street didn’t predict the 2008 crisis because it paid scant attention to the insights of behavioral economics. Burton G. Malkiel Oct. 22, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Bubbles and crashes will always be characteristics of free-market
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August 12, 2013 The Clinton-Era Roots of the Financial Crisis Affordable-housing goals established in the 1990s led to a massive increase in risky, subprime mortgages. By PHIL GRAMM AND MIKE SOLONMr. Gramm, a former Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is senior partner of US Policy Metrics and a visiting scholar at the
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THE Wall Street Journal THE GREAT DEGENERATION – BOOK REVIEW By GEORGE MELLOAN Mr. Melloan, a former columnist and deputy editor of the Journal editorial page, is the author of “The Great Money Binge: Spending Our Way to Socialism.” June 20, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: With a focus on the United States, “The Great
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