Weekend Must Reads
Washington,
November 10, 2013
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Wall Street Journal | Affordable Housing Is What You Can Afford American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz-Eakin on a Senate housing “reform” bill that includes provisions for politically motivated lending. Baltimore Sun | Consumer protection bureau fails to protect A report by a Bipartisan Policy Center task force comes after almost a year's worth of in-depth review and analysis and seems to support what critics of the CFPB have been saying all along: This unaccountable bureaucracy harms business and consumers alike. Heritage Foundation | Fannie and Freddie: What Record of Success? The notion that the housing finance system in the U.S. worked until banks foreclosed on millions of homes is inaccurate. Los Angeles Times | Dodd-Frank: Obama's other big bad law The financial reform measure, like Obamacare, is flawed, with a similar potential to harm ordinary Americans. |