The Author of the Administration's Housing Finance Report, Arnold …

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. …

The Author of the Administration's Housing Finance Report, Arnold …

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 …

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 …

Finance , TARP, and the Great Recession.

The Future of Finance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of …

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.

Remarks on U.S. Mortgage Finance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library …

At a conference yesterday on mortgage finance, I managed to turn a discussion of the future of securitization into a discussion of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage . I think that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is an artifact of …

Mortgage Market Experts, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of …

All of them know more than I do about mortgage finance, and I assume that most of the other conference participants do as well. I might do well to talk instead about the Greek debt crisis. I know much less about that than I do about …