At this conference, we will assess whether high frequency trading (HFT) has been good or bad for the securities markets and investors.

At a Hill event this morning in which Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Vice Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee will participate, AEI housing finance experts Peter Wallison, Alex Pollock and Edward Pinto will introduce a new housing finance policy white paper.

Super committee members Sen. Pat Toomey and Rep. Jeb Hensarling are taking flak from some conservatives for proposing a deal including increases in "revenues." But it's worth taking a look at what Toomey and Hensarling actually were talking about. It may not matter now but could after 2012.

AEI scholars Peter J. Wallison, Alex J. Pollock, and Edward Pinto will release a new AEI white paper outlining four principles for reform of US housing policy, the protection of taxpayers, and the prevention of future financial crises caused by housing policy.

With the congressional "supercommittee" now complete, the stage is set for a very high drama indeed. Now comes the moment when Americans must confront the costs of remaining the world's sole superpower, the guarantor of an international system that has created a generation of great-power peace, widespread prosperity, and unprecedented human liberty.

Many commentators have noted that if the Super Committee fails, the sky will not fall, at least not immediately. The sequesters that would be triggered do not take effect until 2013, after all. Here is the starker reality.

If we are to avoid future distortions and government-inflated bubbles in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie can and should be dismantled.

Even a seventh-grade civics student would know how to fix Congress's latest blunder.