Measures to help avoid a future crisis and proposals to change the way in which the government responds to crises should they happen nonetheless.

The House Financial Services Committee's October 27 Discussion Draft proposes measures that would, if enacted, retard economic growth, allow the government to assume control over the financial system, and seriously impair financial competition.

London’s success in attracting financial transactions and securities offerings from U.S. markets has sparked interest in the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the coordinating body for financial services regulation in the United Kingdom. The U.S. regulatory system for financial services is highly decentralized—even fragmented—while the UK’s system is strongly centralized. U.S....

Joseph Antos' analysis of Medicare's fiscal crisis and reform options that could make the program sustatainable; a response to a request from 16 health professionals elected to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for public comment on Medicare reform. 

Longstanding policies that were intended to promote confidence in the independence of regulatory decision-making have now been wiped away by the Dodd-Frank act, which has in effect placed all the financial regulators under the direction of the Treasury secretary.

Under the Dodd-Frank financial-reform law, large nonbank firms may be declared systemically important because their failure will cause a systemic breakdown. In effect, this amounts to a government statement that these firms are too big to fail.

How do supplemental educationonial services impact student achievement and what makes SES effective or why does it fails?