The underlying cause of the financial meltdown was much more mundane than a “crisis of
capitalism”: The real origins lay in mostly obscure housing, tax, and regulatory policies of the …

FinancialServices O utlook Page 1 This is an essay about accounting, but that is not a good
reason to stop reading. It has been more than a year since the credit crisis began, and it is …

… “Those of us who have studied the financial crisis concluded years ago that Peter Wallison
‘wrote the book’ on the subject. Now he has actually done so. For years he warned of …

The government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was necessary because of their
massive losses on more than $1 trillion of subprime and Alt-A investments, almost all of which …

As many of you may know, I was a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a 10-member
group set up by Congress to find and report the causes of the great financial crisis …

… Wallison shows how Reagan's unyielding attachment to certain key ideas— communicated
… In Ronald Reagan, Wallison describes what it was like to be on Reagan's White House staff …

Annotation Litan (economics, the Brookings Institution) and Wallison (the American Enterprise
Institute) discuss the issues surrounding corporate disclosure. They describe a system of …

… At the meeting, he was informed that “Fannie only wants to deal with its friends, and with
Peter Wallison on your board we can’t regard MGIC a friend.” When that was reported to the …

Though accused by critics of helping to cause the current financial crisis, credit‐default
swaps are blameless. The accusation is understandable, however, given misunderstandings …

It is popular around the world to blame the financial crisis on the United States. But before
we identify this as the usual anti-Americanism, we should perhaps look more seriously at our …