Testimony by Allan H. Meltzer before the House Financial Services Committee (March 5) and the Joint Economic Committee (March 6).

The Meltzer Commission reported on institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.

Despite almost continuous criticism and frequent predictions of the end of capitalism, the capitalist system has spread throughout the world. Once confined to western Europe, North America, and Australasia, capitalism has become the dominant form of organization in the entire world, including Asia, Latin America, and most of the former...

Statement before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, by Allan H. Meltzer, March 8, 2001.

In 2000 AEI scholar Allan H. Meltzer chaired a national commission--the Meltzer Commission--that issued a report highly critical of the practices and policies of the International Monetary Fund. The commission also made a series of recommendations for the reform of key IMF policies. In light of the...

The Transatlantic Law Forum, a joint initiative of the American Enterprise Institute and the Council on Public Policy, will explore the institutional and legal dimensions of the financial crisis at its 2010 annual conference.

In October 2007, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is scheduled to assume the helm of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He will do so at a time when the IMF is no longer a major lender to emerging market economies and when the IMF seems to have little to say about today’s large...

During the recent campaign season, the Democrats blamed the financial crisis on “Republican deregulation,” in particular the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA). The GLBA repealed the provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that prevented affiliations between commercial and investment banks,...