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Too Big to Fail?: Long-Term Capital Management and the Federal Reserve
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Kevin Dowd
Country: United States

The rescue of Long Term Capital Management was misguided at the time and is causing more long-term consequences. This paper is available in PDF format. (9/22/99)

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (S. 900): A Major Step Toward Financial Deregulation
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: David C John
Country: United States

Soon Congress will consider the conference report to a bill, known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (S. 900), which would repeal obsolete Depression-era laws that still govern financial transactions today. Banks, securities firms, and other types of financial institutions could join together to offer their customers a more complete range of services. (10/29/99)

What Does Mr. Greenspan Really Think?
Source: Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education
Author: Lawrence Parks
Country: United States

An ongoing commentary on Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's position on various economic issues.

Government should withdraw from attempts to ban ATM fees
Source: Mackinac Center
Author: Jefferson G. Edgens
Country: United States

Edgens explains that even though public officials want to ban unpopular ATM fees -- a popular idea with many consumers -- doing so would likely end up depriving these same consumers of the convenience of accessing their accounts virtually anywhere. (11/10/00)

An exchange on monetary policy
Source: Ideas on Liberty
Author: Joseph T. Salerno & Richard H. Timberlake
Country: United States
E-mail: fee@free-market.net

Salerno and Timberlake debate the Austrian view of monetary policy in this exhaustive series of essays. (10/99-10/00)

The dollar club
Source: Hoover Digest
Author: Robert Barro
Country: United States
E-mail: hoover@free-market.net

"In countries throughout the world, the dollar has long served as an unofficial currency. Now quite a few of those countries are deciding to make the greenback official. Here's why." (Spring, 2001)

Finance on the frings
Source: Reason
Author: Mike Lynch
Country: United States

America's check cashers don't exploit the poor; they serve them. (04/02)

Neither fish nor fowl: An overview of the big three government sponsored enterprises in the U.S. housing finance markets
Source: Mercatus Center
Author: Jay Cochran and Catherine England
Country: United States

This report examines how Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Bank System could be harmful to consumers because of their growing debt and expanding scope. It is available in Adobe PDF. (11/01)

Right to work is powerful economic tool
Source: Mackinac Center
Author: David Bardallis
Country: United States

"Citizens in states that outlaw compulsory unionism via 'right-to-work' laws are enjoying the benefits of greater economic growth and prosperity thanks to their states' higher degree of worker choice and freedom."

FDIC Reform: Don't put taxpayers back at risk
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: George G. Kaufman
Country: United States

This study examines recent Federal legislation that would change the coverage, premium structure, and administration of the federal deposit insurance system in a way that would increase the government's potential liability for losses from bank failures. It concludes that "Congress should be careful not to revert to a system of unlimited taxpayer liability." It is available in Adobe PDF. (04/16/02)

Accounting after Enron: Is the cure worse than the disease?
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Richard Bassett and Mark Storrie
Country: United States

"[T]he main risk facing equity markets post-Enron has been one of too much political intervention in a market that was already working to right itself." Executive summary of a policy analysis. (full analysis available as a PDF file) (2/12/03)

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