In signing the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act President Obama claimed to much applause, “And finally, because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s mistakes. (Applause.) There will …
The sequester is kicking in, and the consequences are upon us: airplanes are falling out of the sky, furloughed FBI agents commiserate over donuts, sea levels keep rising. Help, however, is on the way. Increasingly, federal agencies are funding themselves …
New mortgage rules released by the CFPB show why heightened oversight is necessary.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is one of the most powerful and least accountable regulatory agencies in American history. Immune from budgetary oversight by Congress and headed …
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The Cato Journal’s Spring/Summer 2012 volume on “Monetary Reform in the Wake of Crisis” is not to be missed. Contributors include Allan Meltzer, John Allison, James Grant, George Selgin, and Judy Shelton, among others. You could think that so much …
Enacted swiftly in the wake of the financial crisis, the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform legislation contain a thicket of rules overhauling the entire American financial system, creating a bevy of new regulatory entities. But that is only …
Drove the kids to school this morning and now, there are bite marks in the steering wheel—not on account of anything they did, but courtesy of my listening in on an NPR interview with outgoing SEC Chair Mary Shapiro. While …
The next Liberty Law Talk is now available. This podcast is a discussion with Adam White, a lawyer in Washington with Boyden Gray & Associates, about the increasing policy significance of what has been a rather staid or predictable …
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- Helen Alvaré reviews John Witte’s classic work, recently reissued in a second edition, From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition. Here’s the link to a podcast
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