Alex J. Pollock has been a resident fellow at AEI since 2004, focusing on financial policy issues, including government-sponsored enterprises, retirement finance, housing finance, corporate governance, and accounting standards. He has written extensively on the housing bubble and bust and is the author of the one-page mortgage disclosure proposal. Previously, he spent thirty-five years in banking, including twelve years as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, while also writing numerous articles on financial systems and management. He is a director of Allied Capital Corporation, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation, the International Union for Housing Finance, and chairman of the board of the Great Books Foundation. He is a graduate of Williams College, University of Chicago, and Princeton University.
Recent Blog Posts by Alex Pollock
- “They Have Their Exits”: Bank Survival 1983-2010
- Deposit Insurance: The Forgotten Moral Hazard
- Error vs. Fraud
- Advice, Not Consent: A Case for a Systemic Risk Adviser and against a Systemic Risk Regulator
- Building Loss Reserves in Good Times
- Reform of “Fair Value” Accounting
- TARP Accountability and Oversight
- Bank to the Future
- Out With the Old Banks, In With the New
- The Future of Fannie and Freddie
- Was There Ever a Default on U.S. Treasury Debt?
- Verdict on the FASB’s “Fair Value” Accounting: Guilty
- The British Way Is Better
- The RTC or the RFC: Taxpayers as Involuntary Equity Investors
- Most Radical Part of the Bailout
- Your Guide to the Housing Crisis
- Regulatory Implications of the Housing and Mortgage Bubble and Bust
- The Greenspan Gamble
- Why (Financial) History Repeats
- The Greenspan Gamble
- Will the Real Shareholders Please Stand Up? Principals and Agents in the Sarbanes-Oxley Era
