The official monitor for the mortgage servicing fraud settlement has put out a progress report on … [Read more...]
Why Housing?
Susan Wachter and I have a new paper out, entitled Why Housing? The paper is a critical review of … [Read more...]
Who Built It?
We're seeing the back and forth between the Dems and the GOP about "who built it," … [Read more...]
Who Built It?
We're seeing the back and forth between the Dems and the GOP about "who built it," … [Read more...]
Why No Prosecutions
The NYTimes had a very good editorial today bemoaning, with resignation, that there will not be any … [Read more...]
What’s the Point of Billable Rates?
Felix Salmon has a very insightful post about lawyers' hourly billing rates. His … [Read more...]
Cramdown and the Cost of Mortgage Credit
Joshua Goodman at the Harvard Kennedy School and I have a new paper out examining the impact of … [Read more...]
Do Your Research, Ezra Klein!
Ezra Klein has joined the melee over the Obama Administration's housing policy failure with an … [Read more...]
Zywicki’s Interchange Settlement Balderdash
I was really hoping that I would be able to go at least a year without having to call Todd Zywicki … [Read more...]
Zywicki’s Interchange Settlement Balderdash
I was really hoping that I would be able to go at least a year without having to call Todd Zywicki … [Read more...]
The Interchange Settlement
Moved to top from 8/15. I've held my tongue for a while on the proposed class settlement in … [Read more...]
Why So Few Mega-Credit Card Class Action Settlements?
JPMorgan Chase and Class Counsel have received preliminary approval of a $100 million class … [Read more...]
The Tenuous Case for Swaps Clearinghouses
I've got a new short article out about swaps clearinghouses. It's a response piece to an … [Read more...]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About CDOs (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Bill Bratton and I have a new paper out, called A Transactional Genealogy of Scandal: from Michael … [Read more...]
Team Tim v. Team Neal on the Financial Crisis
Matthew Yglesias has a fantastic piece about the Barofsky-Geithner proxy debate on the financial … [Read more...]
Location, location, location: ATM Fee Disclosure Edition
The number one agenda item for small banks is to repeal the physical, on-machine disclosure … [Read more...]
The New Cramdown
For the past couple of years, I've been thinking that cramdown is dead as a policy solution. … [Read more...]
Why Don’t Economists Read the Legal Literature?
When I read economics articles, I'm often struck by the absence of citations to the legal … [Read more...]
FHFA Wants Money Transferred from Local Government to Bondholders
FHFA has sued the State of Illinois and some local government units claiming that Fannie Mae and … [Read more...]
The Coasean Republic
At times I've joked to my classes about the possibility of a Coasean Republic, a state I call … [Read more...]
Eaton v. Fannie Mae Analysis
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court finally issued its long-awaited ruling in Eaton v. Fannie … [Read more...]
Securitization Fail-Litigation Update
The wheels of litigation move slowly, but there are a couple of recent securitization fail … [Read more...]
Arbitration Unconscionability Post-Concepcion
My Georgetown colleague Rebecca Tushnet has a great post about a recent Missouri Supreme Court … [Read more...]
Equity Financing of Higher Education
Luigi Zingales had an op-ed in the NY Times a few days back proposing equity financing of higher … [Read more...]
GM, Chrysler and Ideologically Selective Bankruptcy Formalism
James Sherk and Todd Zywicki have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that kvetches about the … [Read more...]
GM, Chrysler and Ideologically Selective Bankruptcy Formalism
James Sherk and Todd Zywicki have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that kvetches about the … [Read more...]
Making Banks Boring
Bloomberg has an editorial arguing that making banks boring won't prevent a crisis; only … [Read more...]
The Bully Model of Consumer Finance and Litigation
There's a fearful symmetry in the consumer finance world. It's a symmetry of bullies … [Read more...]
Reputational Sanctions in an Age of Internet Manipulation?
A major argument against substantive regulation of industries (including consumer finance) is that … [Read more...]