Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have aggressively used their government support to achieve extraordinarily high profitability and domination of the residential mortgage market.

The failure of the largest banks will not generally endanger the solvency of their parent bank holding companies (BHCs), preventing the secretary of the Treasury from using single point of entry (SPOE).

The central causes of the Savings and Loans debacle, according to this study, lay in the decision to substitute government regulation for the disciplines of the market.

This book recommends the creation of a new, alternative legal structure for collective investment, the "managed investment trust."

Today's knowledge-based economy requires an entirely new system of assessing the value of companies--a system tapping the vast communication capabilities of the Internet.

The FCIC's report fails to address the cause of the deterioration in mortgage underwriting standards that led to the housing bubble widely accepted as the key factor in destabilizing the American economy.

This book argues that privatization of the government-sponsored enterprises is the only viable way to protect the taxpayers and the economy.

In his new book, Peter Wallison argues the Dodd-Frank Act was the result of a false narrative about the 2008 financial crisis, blaming the crisis on the private sectors when in fact it was caused by the US government’s housing policies. This was not harmless error; the act will suppress...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have aggressively used their government support to achieve extraordinarily high profitability and domination of the residential mortgage market.

Because two disparate clients demand loyalty from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, these government-sponsored entities must fulfill two ultimately irreconcilable roles.