Heartland's Center on Finance Insurance and Real Estate (C-FIRE) focuses on free-market, pro-consumer regulation of financial markets. We favor policies that empower individuals, replace centralized government authority, and pare regulations. Our efforts have involved fighting price controls, arguing against government takeovers of private markets, and abolishing subsidies for companies.
We focus on a limited subset of issues where we feel we can make a meaningful difference. When confronted with an issue, we always strive to respond as quickly as possible; we want to be in every news cycle. In carrying out our work, we make special efforts to partner with anyone and everyone who shares at least some of our views.
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Politically Correct Lending Hands Corporate Welfare to Big Banks
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The Fed’s $1 Trillion Bailout . . . of Foreign Banks
– May 23, 2013 -
Federal Reserve’s ‘Exit Strategy’ is Just More Monetary Manipulation
– May 15, 2013 -
Online 'Marketplace Fairness Act' Could Tax Your 401(k)
– May 9, 2013 -
SEC Charges Pennsylvania’s Capital City With Fraud
– May 7, 2013
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Resentencing Skilling: Reading Between The Lines
– April 12, 2013 -
Central Banks Buy Gold, Print Money
– March 18, 2013 -
Heartland Institute Experts React to State of the Union Address
– February 13, 2013 -
R.I.P. James M. Buchanan (1919-2013)
– January 19, 2013 -
The Wages of Unemployment
– January 17, 2013
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Research & Commentary: Ending “Too Big to Fail”
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Research & Commentary: Early Effects of Dodd-Frank
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Research & Commentary: Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Reform
– March 1, 2013 -
Research & Commentary: Illinois Minimum Wage Reform
– February 25, 2013 -
Research & Commentary: Lifting the Cap on Member Business Lending
– February 25, 2013
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Heartland Institute Experts React to State of the Union Address
– Education, – Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, – Environment, – Budgets and Taxes, – Health Care– February 13, 2013 -
Heartland Institute Experts React to House Vote on Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill, National Flood Insurance Program
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Heartland Institute Economic Experts React to October Jobs Report
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Heartland Institute Responds to Fed Plan to Buy Mortgages in Effort to Lower Rates
– September 13, 2012 -
Heartland Institute Applauds Senate Plan to Vote on Flood Insurance Reform
– May 24, 2012
Featured Works
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FIRE Policy News
FIRE Policy News is one of The Heartland Institute's six monthly public policy newspapers sent digitally or by mail to subscribers and every national and state elected official in the U.S. Click on the image below to find the current issue and browse the publication's archives.
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On the Blog
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Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism on the Charlie Sykes Show
May 23, 2013, 10:55 PM -
Heartland Daily Podcast: Schools, Data-Mining, and Invasions of Privacy
May 23, 2013, 12:41 PM -
Q&A with Edmund Contoski: ‘The Impending Money Revolution, The Dollar and Gold’
May 23, 2013, 10:52 AM -
Little Impact on FCC Open Internet Order Appeal from SCOTUS Chevron Decision
May 23, 2013, 10:14 AM -
The New Enemies List
May 23, 2013, 8:53 AM
In The News
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Review & Outlook: Your Next IRS Political Audit - WSJ.com
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Kenneth Scott and John Taylor: How to Let Too-Big-To-Fail Banks Fail - WSJ.com
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IRS Abuse Of Conservatives Is Either Corruption Or Incompetence - Investors.com
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Review & Outlook: The 'Independent' Revenue Service - WSJ.com
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Daniel Arbess: Bring on the 'Helicopter Money' - WSJ.com
May 15, 2013, 9:21 AM
On The Air
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Leonard Gilroy: Privatizing Tennessee Valley Authority Merits Study
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Jim Duggan: 'Disclose and Comply; Times Have Definitely Changed'
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Ying Ma: Our Bailout Dollars at Work . . . In China
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Roy Cordato: Here's Why We Need to Question Economic Development Claims
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Pete Sepp: It's Not Economic Development, It's Corporate Welfare
