For all the public wrangling we are seeing over the super committee — mostly centered on tax reform and revenues as a key component of a compromise — the big issue facing policymakers in the coming years is health care costs.

We are still suffering from the bursting of the housing bubble and now some people see signs that another bubble is bursting--the higher education bubble.

A regulatory response to problems in mortgage servicing must fix problems in the industry but avoid poorly conceived actions that would crimp American families' access to mortgage financing and threaten the still-weak housing recovery and the broader economy.

How much should the government do to prevent home foreclosures and how should we do it?

AEI's latest housing finance plan eliminates the need for government guarantees and permits the gradual elimination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee briefly outlines a proposed response to thecurrent wave of mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures.

The states' fiscal crisis is structural, not cyclical. Real recovery and reform will require drastic changes to our federal architecture.