The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) recently proposed accounting standards for U.S. government-related insurance programs and is seeking public comment through March 29, 2016. Programs under consideration include insurance and non-loan guarantee programs authorized by law to comp...
Please click here to read the WSJ.com article How Federal Lending Programs Served as a Big Shadow Stimulus which discusses Deborah Lucas’ paper Credit policy as fiscal policy.
Chester Spatt was interviewed by Kenneth Durr of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society last year about his time at the Commission as Chief Economist. A transcript of the interview can be found here; audio of the conversation is below.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy’s new Banking Reform Clearinghouse, or BRiC. With the recent passage of the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 in the U.S. House of Representatives and the [...]
Bloomberg Video Interview with Deborah Lucas: Congress Considers Fair Value Accounting
The Hill has published the op-ed, “Borrowing for Your College from Your Uncle Sam,” authored by GCFP Executive Director Doug Criscitello.
In a response to the July 2021 Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Policy Statement on Fair Lending, former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials Michelle Aronowitz (Law Office […]
CFP Director Deborah Lucas posted this guest blogpost on the Center for Economic Policy Research portal VOX: “Putting an accurate price tag on government credit support.”
Reverse mortgages are a financial innovation designed to help retirees free up the savings tied up in home equity without being forced to move. Access to those funds can make a big difference in the quality of life for house-rich, cash-poor, retirees. Yet the product has been slow to catch on. A new...
On March 28, 2019, Chester Spatt, a distinguished senior fellow at the Golub Center, testified before the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee as part of its panel on stock exchanges. Spatt […]
