The National Association of Realtors (NAR), which pushed Congress to give FHA yet more responsibilities, is now trying to show that the agency is not really insolvent. But the slippery "facts" they are using show how tenuous their argument is.

The ongoing financial crisis provides lessons that should be used toguide the redesign of our regulatory system. Recent proposals such as those of the Group of Thirty and the Congressional Oversight Panel do not appear to have recognized these lessons.

In less than twenty-five years, government “affordable housing” and other housing policies have turned a healthy market into a financial ruin. Until Fannie and Freddie’s market dominance and the government’s role in the housing finance system are substantially reduced or eliminated, the United States will continue to have an inferior and unstable housing market.

Panelists will discuss a new report by the the Taiwan Policy Working Group.

Ronald Reagan signed the legislation making Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday in November 1983. In January that year, public opinion was divided, with 47 percent in favor of the holiday and 48 percent opposed in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. In an October 1983 Harris poll, however, 59 percent supported it.

Panelists at this seminar will discuss whether the euro can really challenge the dollar’s preeminent role.

A close look at a major voting group--aging baby boomers--shows that this growing demographic is becoming more conservative.

An ever-increasing number of individuals are turning to community college for their higher education. Online delivery of classes and competency-based models of higher learning should be employed and innovations from for-profit schools should be borrowed to increase the number of Americans completing their associate’s degrees.