Veteran housing policy expert Alex Pollock of the R Street Institute offers some thoughts about GSE reform legislation currently before Congress as well as his proposal to rebuild and maintain the enterprises’ capital reserves along the lines of requirements for Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs)…

Investors Unite member Michael Ciklin, who is a Princeton graduate and holds a joint JD, MBA, MRE from University of Florida, joins Executive Director Tim Pagliara to discuss the findings from a Special Report he and fellow Investors Unite member Adam Spittler published, which is a forensic look at the bailout of Fannie Mae and subsequent conservat…

R Street Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow Alex Pollock joins IU Executive Director Tim Pagliara to discuss principles for housing finance policy, which he laid out in his recent study, "What’s next for U.S. housing finance?," including treating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac like any other systemically important financial institution (SIFI). Previ…

University of Virginia School of Law Professor Saikrishna Prakash joins IU Executive Director Tim Pagliara to discuss Judge Margaret Sweeney's March 7 order, which is the latest in a series related to the ongoing tug of war over the disclosure of documents sought by Fairholme Funds regarding the Net Worth Sweep. Professor Prakash is an expert on Co…

In the inaugural Investors Unite Podcast, IU Executive Director Tim Pagliara is joined by NYU Law Professor Richard Epstein. During the podcast, Epstein and Pagliara dissect recent developments in the effort to release government documents related to the Net Worth Sweep of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's profits, and discuss the likelihood of more doc…