Alex J. Pollock was interviewed by Institutional Risk Analytics to discuss his ideas for abolishing the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the need for meaningful financial reform legislation.

President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

The Obama administration’s recent focus on finding a compromise to allow the Iranian regime to maintain some enrichment capabilities “for peaceful purposes” distracts from the underlying nuclear threat at hand.

Please join us for a timely panel discussion on the state of freedom of expression in the Americas.

In this paper, I endeavor to show that continuing U.S. government involvement in the housing-finance system will inevitably involve serious losses for taxpayers and that the U.S. housing finance system could function well without GSEs or any other form of government financial support simply by ensuring that only good quality mortgages are allowed to enter the securitization system. 

On Wednesday 8, 2012, the House Committee on Ways and Means held a testimony on "The Interaction of Tax and Financial Accounting on Tax Reform." Here, Aparna Mathur contributes to their discussion.  

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to China this week for yearly strategic consultations, a daring bid for political asylum has highlighted the seething dissent beneath China’s surface stability.

Conservatives are considering means tests on Social Security and Medicare benefits, which seemingly offer billions in savings. But a means test is equivalent to a tax on work and saving, precisely the things Americans should do to reduce their dependence on government benefits.