This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

This booktraces the origins of GSEs, contrasts investor-owned and cooperative GSEs, and examines such issues as activities and the quality of oversight.

Requiring companies to expense options in the absence of any satisfactory method to evaluate their costs would be inconsistent with the principles and objectives of accounting.

The establishment of new accounting rules for expensing options would likely do more harm than good.

This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.