The Author of the Administration's Housing Finance Report, Arnold …
February 11, 2011 by Arnold Kling
Filed under Finance
So, basically, the Administration outsourced its policy on the entire future of housing finance to a professor and a grad student, neither of whom appears to have spent a single day working the mortgage industry. …
Housing Finance Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of …
December 1, 2010 by Arnold Kling
Filed under Finance
Portfolio lending savings and loan associations, the traditional backbone of the US housing finance system, were forced to subsidize interest rate risk. Federally chartered S&Ls in particular were required to finance fixed rate …
Housing Finance Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of …
December 1, 2010 by Arnold Kling
Filed under Finance
Portfolio lending savings and loan associations, the traditional backbone of the US housing finance system, were forced to subsidize interest rate risk. Federally chartered S&Ls in particular were required to finance fixed rate …
Finance, TARP, and the Great Recession, Arnold Kling | EconLog …
October 1, 2010 by Arnold Kling
Filed under Finance
Finance , TARP, and the Great Recession.
The Future of Finance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of …
September 8, 2010 by Arnold Kling
Filed under Finance
Several chapters, particularly the first two, ask whether the growth of finance is good or bad for the economy as a whole. Boone and Johnson answer this in the negative. So would I.
Labor Market Rigidity: Psychology, Technology, and Peter Pan …
May 16, 2010 by Bryan Caplan
Filed under Technology
Today’s firms do have better management and more advanced information technology than they used to. But the most important cause of labor market rigidity, at least in the U.S., is psychology. People resent wage cuts, especially nominal …
