A crazy proposal from Biden for more redistribution.

He gets a lot right about the housing crisis, but left out something important.

Cronyists want to resuscitate Fannie and Freddie.

Our system of housing finance is mucked up by government intervention

Fannie and Freddie should never have been created in the first place.

The things we applauded and face-palmed over in 2014.

Even though we just suffered through a housing bubble/collapse thanks to misguided government intervention, Obama’s people are pursuing the same policies today.

The Obama Administration is proposing to once again put the economy at risk by subsidizing banks to give mortgages to people with poor credit, even though we’re still dealing with the economic and fiscal damage caused by the last episode of government housing subsidies!

I’ve explained on many occasions how the financial crisis was largely the result of government-imposed mistakes, and I’ve paid considerable attention to the role of easy money by the Federal Reserve and the perverse subsidies provided by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But I’ve only once touched on the role of the Basel regulations on […]

Remember my post from a week ago when I said I was not a Republican even though Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge are two of my heroes? Well, now I have another reason to despise the GOP. Those reprehensible statists just voted to expand federal housing subsidies. Here are some excerpts from an excellent National Review column […]