Financial Regulation

• Christine Hall
• 03/05/2012

Washington, DC, March 5, 2012 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today filed an amicus brief in support of hedge fund Bulldog Investors and free speech…

Banking and Finance

• Christine Hall, John Berlau
• 02/06/2012

Washington, D.C., February 6, 2012—So-called “payday loans” and other forms of non-bank , short-term credit are roundly vilified by many politicians and activists, including the…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 02/05/2012

Is a $16 surcharge on a $100 product unfair, unjust, and “predatory”? Hardly anyone flinches, for instance, at a $16 “resort fee” on a $100…

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/27/2012

G. William Beale noted in his Commentary column, “Big regulations stifle small banks,” that small banks are being crushed by pointless red tape due to…

Financial Regulation

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/06/2011

Markets rallied last week on news of central bank intervention to ease indebted European governments’ liquidity problems, but the central problem remains. Europe is in…

Banking and Finance

• By: CEI Staff
• 12/05/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 12/04/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 12/01/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: Matthew Melchiorre
• 11/26/2011

One of Thomas Jefferson’s rules for living was, “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” As an American and as a “cittadino”…

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 11/22/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 11/22/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 11/22/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: William Frezza
• 11/21/2011

The federal government protects two different classes of investors very differently against losses they might incur as a result of making poor investment choices. Both…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 11/16/2011

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has signed a coalition letter with other individuals and public policy organizations opposing the expansion of government-backed mortgages for wealthy home-buyers.

Banking and Finance

• By: William Frezza
• 11/09/2011

What is money, and from where does it draw its value? This is a question Greece is facing as its people stare into the abyss.

Banking and Finance

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 11/05/2011

  Capital standards are critical to the stability of any financial system. However, whether such standards are better achieved by markets rather than political entities…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 11/04/2011

‘Tweet for Jobs.” So says a section of Barack Obama’s campaign website encouraging the public to use social networks to lobby Congress for passage of…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 11/04/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 11/02/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 11/01/2011

Repeal Financial Regs Repeal portions of the Bush-era Sarbanes-Oxley Act to make it easier for smaller companies to raise capital by going public,…

Banking and Finance

• By: Matthew Melchiorre
• 10/31/2011

American entrepreneurs and small business owners have good reason to be scared this Halloween. According to a new Gallup poll, small business owners consider…

Banking and Finance

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 10/31/2011

  When regulations make hiring employees more expensive, companies won't hire as many of them. It's a simple truth. But it is an inconvenient one…

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/29/2011

Re: “Amendment would cripple government, devastate Americans,” Oct. 23 commentary: Where did Andy Schmookler get the strange idea that former President Herbert Hoover practiced…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 10/27/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Now that the Senate has defeated the so-called American Jobs Bill, which…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 10/27/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau, Sam Kazman
• 10/25/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 10/24/2011

‘They are . . . not interested in asking millionaires and billionaires to pay a half a penny on the dollar for the sake of…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau, Sam Kazman
• 10/16/2011

Banking and Finance

• Christine Hall
• 10/14/2011

Washington, DC, October 14, 2011 –  In response to the spate of new “Durbin Fees” hitting the debit cards and checking accounts of so many…

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/10/2011

Re: Harper denies focusing on austerity, Sept. 28. Wherever did some Canadian economists get the strange idea that U.S. President Herbert Hoover “helped plunge…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 10/05/2011

There are many observations that can be made about President Obama’s remark Monday to ABC News that businesses “don’t have some inherent right just…

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/05/2011

Wherever did some Canadian economists get the strange idea that U.S. president Herbert Hoover “helped plunge his country into the Great Depression through austerity measures”…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 10/01/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/01/2011

Re: “Harper rejects warnings austerity will spark recession,” The Journal, Sept. 28. Former U.S. president Herbert Hoover did not practice austerity, so it is…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 09/30/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: Hans Bader
• 09/30/2011

Warren Buffett was wrong to suggest that capital gains taxes are too low (“Calling Buffett’s bluff,” Comment & Analysis, Monday). They are actually much too…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 09/30/2011

Your editorial “The Anti-Solyndras” (Sept. 22) is right on target in detailing the devastating impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on job and…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 09/30/2011

Read the headlines — and your bank statement — and weep, but don’t say TAS didn’t warn you. As I detailed here in February…

Banking and Finance

• Nicole Ciandella
• 09/28/2011

Washington, D.C., September 28, 2011—“Free checking is going the way of the free checked bag,” declared USA Today this week. And for more than…

Financial Regulation

• By: John Berlau
• 09/26/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 09/26/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 09/23/2011

The Competitive Enterprise has submitted comments regarding the implementation of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which attempts to…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 09/21/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 09/21/2011

Banking and Finance

• By: Iain Murray
• 09/20/2011

Greece is in economic meltdown. Its economy has become so biased towards the public sector that it is now literally unsustainable. It cannot afford to…

Banking and Finance

• By: William Frezza
• 09/19/2011

Among the colossal fallacies that keep our economy mired in unemployment, few loom as large as the notion that “creating” jobs leads to growth and…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 09/15/2011

In U.S. President Barack Obama’s 33-minute speech to Congress on job creation, one sentence was worth nearly all the rest of his 4,000 words. In…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 09/14/2011

In President Obama’s 33-minute-long speech to Congress on job creation, one sentence was worth nearly all the rest of his 4,000 words. In the…

Banking and Finance