My good friend, Alex Pollock, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, has published a very important article in the American Banker on what he considers the illegal funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the Federal Reserve System.
“The CFPB is funded by the Fed’s profits. Trouble is, there are none” by Alex Pollock Read More »
The Federal Reserve continues to struggle with adoption of Basel III. I firmly believe it is a futile and useless exercise, which should be abandoned, as I state in my most recent article in the American Banker, summarized here. I declined to adopt Basel I when I was Chairman of the FDIC and believe it
It’s time for the US to withdraw from the Basel capital accords Read More »
Alex Pollock’s important article in the New York Sun on the Federal Reserve’s staggering losses.
In our latest article in The Hill, my good friend Thomas Vartanian and I outline five key challenges standing in the way of financial stability in the US banking system.
5 ways to improve the stability of the financial system Read More »
My latest article in American Banker explains how it was uninsured deposits, not brokered deposits, that led to 2023’s bank failures.
Uninsured deposits, not brokered deposits, led to 2023 bank failures Read More »
I couldn’t agree more with Jamie Dinon’s Washington Post opinion, titled “The next president must restore our faith in America,” calling for much needed leadership in the US that will unite us in these very difficult, divisive, and perilous times.
“The next president must restore our faith in America” by Jamie Dinon Read More »
Alex Pollock published an important column in the NY Sun: “The central bank is in circumstances that the authors of Dodd-Frank failed to anticipate — it’s been operating at a loss.”
William Isaac has released a new white paper on much-needed reforms for U.S. bank regulation and deposit insurance. The paper, “It’s Broken, So Let’s Fix It” uses Mr. Isaac’s decades of experience in banking and regulation to make recommendations on accounting rules, regulatory oversight, deposit insurance reform, and better and more effective US-centric capital rules.
Isaac Proposes Overhaul of U.S. Bank Regulation & Deposit Insurance Read More »
Ed Pinto at the American Enterprise Institute discussed the American housing market in a new podcast interview, and the AEI released a compelling 9-minute video on the topic.
AEI: “The Forgotten Solution to the Housing Crunch” Read More »
I sat down with Interactive Brokers Podcast Host and Senior Economist Jose Torres to discuss how today’s regulatory failures mirror past crises and what we need to fix our financial system.
