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Proposed Leverage Buffer and Credit Risk Transfer Rules Contradict the FHFA's Goals
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Stephen Matteo Miller
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and Thomas Hoenig
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November 24, 2021 | Financial Markets
FHFA’s proposed rulemaking improves the usefulness of the risk-weighted capital analysis introduced in an earlier proposal to establish minimum capital requirements for the enterprises. Nevertheless, it requires that FHFA assume that its models can anticipate and accurately measure shifting risks within a highly dynamic market, which too easily misleads the public regarding the enterprises’ financial resiliency. This public interest comment, while recognizing improvements to the proposal, offers several recommendations to strengthen it further for judging the enterprises’ capital and financial strength.
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Experts are Making Their Bets on Inflation. Here’s Mine.
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Bruce Yandle
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11/23/2021 • The Bridge
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Don’t Blame Big Oil Companies for High Gas Prices
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Alden Abbott
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11/22/2021 • Discourse Magazine
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Biden's FTC Charade Won't Lower Gasoline Prices
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Bruce Yandle
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11/23/2021 • Washington Examiner
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Scott Sumner on Monetary Policy
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Scott Sumner
11/20/2021 • The Not Unreasonable Podcast
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Former Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig on Biden’s Expected Fed Chair Nomination
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Thomas Hoenig
11/22/2021 • CNBC Worldwide Exchange
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Fed Faces Tough Decisions as Inflation Remains 'More Than Transitory': Hoenig
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Thomas Hoenig
11/23/2021 • Fox Business
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The Pall of Politics Descends Upon American Medicine
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Robert Graboyes
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November 24, 2021 | Discourse Magazine
Politics, and in particular hard-left “wokeness,” is infecting American medicine’s bloodstream. The danger cannot be overstated. It threatens medical professionals, patients, medical science and America’s civic life. Like so many societal pathologies, this one seems to have turned septic during the COVID-19 pandemic. The most prominent symptom is a newly released document that is at once laughable and terrifying.
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On Pfizer, COVID, and Charity
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Robert Graboyes
11/23/2021 • Inside Sources
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State Preemption and Multifamily Housing
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Salim Furth
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November 23, 2021 | Land Use Regulations
The policies embodied in H. 298 reflect the rising trend of state laws around the country that reframe local zoning authority with the intent of expanding housing supply. The United States, and Massachusetts especially, need more homes. The steady rise of prices and rents reflect a decade of underproduction nationally, and decades of underproduction in eastern Massachusetts. Increasing the supply of new housing would slow the rise of rents and home prices, reduce residential segregation, and expand opportunity for thousands of citizens.
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Elon Musk and the Coming Federal Showdown Over Driverless Vehicles
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Adam Thierer
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November 22, 2021 | Discourse Magazine
Afunny thing happened on the way to the world of driverless vehicles: No one created any formal rules of the road to govern them. Many industry insiders predicted that Congress would implement a federal framework by now, but years of wrangling have led to nothing.
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Markus Brunnermeier on The Resilient Society
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David Beckworth
11/22/2021 • Macro Musings
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Creating Affordable Housing
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Shruti Rajagopalan
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11/25/2021 • Ideas of India
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