In 2011, the Government Mortgage Complex accounted for 88 percent of all first-mortgage originations in the United States, with the government also controlling an estimated 90 percent of the student loan market. The government’s growing dominance in the home mortgage and student loan categories is cause for concern, posing a threat to private investors, borrowers, and taxpayers.

I have found that the Uncertainty Principle of quantum physics actually has no analogue in foreign policy. Regardless, it is a good way to describe Obama's foreign policy doctrine.

The Securities and Exchange Commission should weigh a compromise proposal on proxy access and how to pay for it.

In opposing Wal-Mart's application to acquire a bank-like institution in Utah, the banking industry is hurting its own prospects for growth and expansion.

Banks trying to prevent Wal-Mart from entering their businessshould tell us a lot about what the separation of banking and commerce is really about.

The precautionary principle can be paralyzing, while in contrastbalancing costs against benefitsmay offer the foundation of an approach for making difficult decisions.

Anew book from the AEI Press provides insight into the precautionary principle and how it has been used in one prominent legal system.

The school-choice movement needs more political support than it currently enjoys from the Republican Party.