Topic: Peter Wallison

Will Congress violate the Constitution if it fails to increase the U.S. debt limit in a few months, and does President Obama have the power under the 14th Amendment to raise the debt limit on his own? Yes. No. Maybe. Wait a minute, we're confused.

Hope the Bush administration could avoid intervening with the two largest U.S. mortgage firms ended Aug. 26, officials said.

Strict U.S. securities laws put in place after the 2002 Enron Corp. scandal are prompting some companies to avoid U.S. markets, a report said Monday. Initial public offerings in 2006 on the London Stock Exchange and London's Alternative Investment Market

Experts were speculating Monday whether President Bush would replace Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson.

According to Peter Wallison of the American Enterprise Institute, traders regard Fannie Mae (NYSE-FNM) stock as the best pure bet on the election, sure to benef

New questions about Fannie Mae has given more ammunition to powerful critics of the U.S. mortgage finance company and its sister firm, Freddie Mac.

It's been nearly two years since passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, aimed at mitigating investor fears after the Enron and WorldCom corporate collapses. While t

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New federal laws intended to improve accounting practices at publicly financed companies are a misguided response to the outbreak of scandals in American corpor

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