Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute. 

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry--including banking, insurance, and securities--who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy. At the two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members will discuss, among...

Since the enactment of a regulatory regime for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, their regulator has had only the powers of a conservator. This ordinarily means that the regulator could take control of the two GSEs under certain circumstances, but couldn't--as a receiver could--marshal their assets, pay off their creditors,...

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Economists sometimes ask basic questions about regulation that reflect a broader perspective on issues than is usually taken by those who wrestle with regulatory issues day to day. Paula Tkac, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank...

Please join the Journal of Financial Services Research and American Enterprise Institute at a conference honoring Anna Schwartz. Over the past four decades, Dr. Schwartz has made countless major contributions to economic and financial policy. This conference will feature keynote addresses by Alan Greenspan, Martin Feldstein, and Allan Meltzer....

As we navigate through the economic miasma, Congress has to keep in mind one of the greater long-term dangers that America faces: the flight of venture capital.

The Treasury secretary is supposed to stand up for correct policy. This Treasury Department sat back and let Congress dictate a costly and ineffective stimulus plan.