“How Can One Understand the Federal Reserve’s Nearly $200 Billion in Losses?” by Alex Pollock
Alex Pollock’s important article in the New York Sun on the Federal Reserve’s staggering losses.
5 ways to improve the stability of the financial system
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.
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Uninsured deposits, not brokered deposits, led to 2023 bank failures
My latest article in American Banker explains how it was uninsured deposits, not brokered deposits, that led to 2023’s bank failures.
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“The next president must restore our faith in America” by Jamie Dinon
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.
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“The Federal Reserve Lacks the ‘Earnings’ With Which Legally To Fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” by Alex Pollock
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.”
Isaac Proposes Overhaul of U.S. Bank Regulation & Deposit Insurance
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.
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AEI: “The Forgotten Solution to the Housing Crunch”
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.
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It’s Broken So Let’s Fix It: Former FDIC Chair Isaac’s Recipes For Success – IBKR Podcast
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.
“A value-added tax is one solution to the crippling debt problem” by Peter Tanous
My good friend, Peter Tanous, has written a thoughtful article for CNBC on the necessity of the U.S. joining most of the rest of the world in adopting a Value Added Tax as a critically important step toward significantly reducing our dangerously out of control debt problems. I believe firmly that we must also reduce senseless Federal spending but, realistically, that alone will not do the job. We will also need a reasonable and fair way to increase Federal revenues. It’s time for the VAT tax coupled with a substantial reduction in wasteful Federal spending.
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Former FDIC chair: Workplace culture at the FDIC can and must be fixed.
My latest article in The Hill emphasizes the importance of identifying leaders at the FDIC who can attract and retain talent by treating employees with respect and dignity. The FDIC is an important institution with a noble goal, and misbehavior must not be tolerated.
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