RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Douglas W. Elmendorf, May 14, 2008, Joint Economic Committee
Even though billions of dollars of mortgage-related loses have yet to be declared, Doug Elemendorf offered Joint Economic Committee members four principles to guide reform of the troubled financial system. His diagnosis and prescriptions are based on a new Brookings report to be released Friday. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alice M. Rivlin, April 11, 2008, The New York Times
Alice Rivlin discusses why the recent rescue of Bear Stearns by the Federal Reserve, was "money well spent." The Fed's actions, she says, were aimed at "protecting the rest of the country—and indeed the world—from the possibly devastating consequences of a financial meltdown." Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
April 2008, The Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation
Unsustainable deficits in the federal budget threaten the health and vigor of the American economy. When the next president and Congress take office in January 2009, they will face one crucial question that has been almost absent from the current election campaign: how to close the enormous gap between projected federal spending and revenues. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alice M. Rivlin, February 26, 2008, House Committee on Financial Services
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Washington, DC
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kenneth Rogoff, February 15, 2007, Project Syndicate
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Clifford Winston, September 2006, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Martin Mayer, June 14, 2006, The New York Times
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Martin Mayer, December 30, 1997, The Wall Street Journal