http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/mortgage-madness_952538.html Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) BOOK REVIEW – HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again by Peter J. Wallison Mortgage Madness Blame for the 2008 financial collapse is, and should be, widespread. Jay Cost June 1, 2015, Vol. 20, No. 36 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: […]
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Peter J. Wallison American Enterprise Institute The Case for Repealing Dodd-Frank PETER J. WALLISON holds the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously he practiced banking, corporate, and financial law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., and in New York. He also served as White
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September 11, 2013 Three-and-a-half More Years of Obama! By J.R. Dunn So the Syria “crisis” is reaching its culmination. Syria’s WMD’s are likely to be placed under the control of its patron, Russia, perhaps even with the cooperation of other disinterested, responsible states such as Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. The world’s only superpower, for
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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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IBD Editorials Perspective Copying Democrats’ Identity Politics A Loser For GOP By PAUL SPERRY Posted 03/27/2013 05:14 PM ET Read More At Investor’s Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/032713-649568-republican-makeover-looks-like-democrat-racial-politics.htm#ixzz2Oqs7j4N2 Follow us: @IBDinvestors on Twitter | InvestorsBusinessDaily on Facebook Republicans lost the election by failing to pin the Great Recession on Democratic housing policies mandating affirmative-action lending. They’ll lose
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES DECKER: 5 Questions with BB&T’s John Allison ‘It’s easier for government to control a few large institutions’ By Brett M. Decker– Brett M. Decker, former Editorial Page Editor for The Washington Times, was an editorial page writer and editor for the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Senior Vice President of
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Economic Judgment Day Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth By Richard W. Rahn This article appeared in The Washington Times on January 22, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The Departments of Defense, State and Justice are authorized by the Constitution
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