Harvard Professor to 2002 Senate Banking Committee: Homebuyers Are Being Ripped Off!
The opening statement by Harvard Professor Howell Jackson to the Senate Banking Committee on January 8th, 2002: Yield spread premiums and related industry practices have become a major problem for American homeowners. More...
Debunking Deregulation as the Cause of the Financial Crisis
Deregulation And America’s Architects Of Destruction Ever wonder why Democrats, liberals and progressives vociferously repeat that it was “Fat Cat bankers, Greedy Wall Streeters and the Failed Policies More...
Deregulation And America’s Architects of Destruction
Earlier this week, I violated a rule I have of not arguing politics with someone I don’t know on social media. However, on Facebook a woman posted a sign that said: If you think it wasn’t deregulation More...
Are you growing, or dying?
You are Either Growing or Dying: America and Top Line Growth First, what is “top line growth” and what does it have to do with the U.S. economy? The term “top line growth” comes from More...
The Republicans’ Regifting: The Right Policy, The Wrong Politics
Richard Baris is a new contributor to The Brenner Brief. His columns will appear weekly on Saturdays. Tis’ the season of sheer folly. As I watch conservatives engage in the fiscal cliff debate, it sure seems that More...
