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The May issue of FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) Policy News reports on Pennsylvania’s interest in using “pension obligation bonds” to avoid steep increases in pension payments over the...
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The April issue of FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) Policy News reports Standard & Poor’s is the only credit rating agency to have downgraded U.S. government debt – and the only credit...
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The March issue of FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) Policy News reports hundreds of condominium and homeowners associations in Florida are threatening foreclosure of banks that foreclosed...
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The February issue of FIRE Policy News reports state legislators in Oregon are considering lowering the state’s capital gains tax rate, one of the nation’s highest. Steve Buckstein, a senior policy...
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The December issue of FIRE Policy News reports residential home construction in September 2011 hit its highest level in four years, and in some markets, existing home sales also have been surging....
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The November issue of FIRE Policy News reports on the Federal Reserve’s decision to buy $40 billion of mortgage debt per month for an unlimited amount of time. “QE3 is more of the same, and it will...
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The October issue of FIRE Policy News reports the Obama administration has restructured terms of the federal government’s bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The administration made its move...
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The September issue of FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) Policy News reports state and local governments in Illinois – and that means taxpayers – collectively owe more than $200 billion in...
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The August issue of FIRE Policy News reports financial institutions that do proprietary trading are coming under fire for high-profile losses that critics say could put taxpayers at risk....
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In an April 17 Rose Garden speech, President Barack Obama blamed “speculators,” whom he called “an irresponsible few,” for the rise in the price of oil. But, as the July issue of FIRE Policy News...
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The June issue of FIRE Policy News reports on the Federal Reserve’s apparent commitment to more years of historically low interest rates, despite indications of an improving economy and rising price...
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The April issue of FIRE Policy News reports on federal charges filed in late January against a “criminal club” of investors who made money trading on insider information. The charges have raised the...
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The March issue of FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) Policy News reports on Louisiana’s unusually expensive automobile insurance rates, symptomatic, author Kevin Mooney writes, “of public...
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The February 2012 issue of FIRE Policy News opens with Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Wendell Cox’s analysis of the 2010 American Community Survey, which finds 79.2 percent of new households in U....
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The January 2012 issue of FIRE Policy News reports on the looming bankruptcy – or will it be a takeover by the state? – of Harrisburg, capital of Pennsylvania. The city’s finances are a mess, at...
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The December issue of FIRE Policy News reports on news that Wall Street firms secretly received at least $1.2 trillion in emergency loans from the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis. Did the...
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The October issue of FIRE Policy News features a quotation from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, published more than five decades ago and still frighteningly accurate today. In an editorial, Heartland...
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The September issue of FIRE Policy News reports on the Federal Reserve’s debit card fee limit, scheduled to go into effect October 1. Retailers are expected to benefit the most from the limit; it...
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The June issue of FIRE Policy News leads with a report on Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s efforts to expose the billions of dollars in assistance that, at the height of America’s financial...
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The April issue of FIRE Policy News analyzes the merger of the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange with a German firm, discussing what the merger does – and does not – symbolize...
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The March issue of FIRE Policy News reports on President Barack Obama’s proposal to use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to help homeowners who are still making payments on their mortgages but owe...
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The February issue of Budget & Tax News reports on reactions to proposals (at the time the issue was written) to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. Also in this issue:
With investors pulling out...
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The January issue of FIRE Policy News reports that cash from the federal government is now the largest revenue source for state and local governments, surpassing sales and property taxes. Fed monies...
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The December issue of FIRE Policy News reports on efforts by the attorneys general in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to investigate potential mortgage foreclosure fraud, particularly the...
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The October issue of FIRE Policy News leads with an analysis of Texas’s land use regulations, explaining how the state’s strong housing market can be traced to its refusal to adopt “smart growth” and...
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