This event will address the problems and improvements needed for student loans, beginning with a keynote presentation by former secretary of education Bill Bennett.

Most people know virtually no financial history, so when we have a financial crisis, it seems like it has never happened before. But it has, again and again. As Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, remarked: "About every ten years, we have the biggest crisis in 50 years." 

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At this AEI event, Wharton professor Joseph Gyourko discusses the implications of his research on the Federal Housing Administration. Edward Pinto, AEI scholar and housing finance expert, will respond.

Since the beginning of the subprime meltdown, policymakers, housing experts, and economists have been looking for data that would enable them to predict housing price declines for individual states and for the nation as a whole. To date, no academic study has offered a quantitative basis for evaluating the potential...

At this event, our panel of experts will share their thoughts on Bubble Trouble.

Switching from the current income tax to a consumption tax would cause only modest declines in the prices of stocks and owner-occupied homes.