Arnold Kling
- Senior Affiliated Scholar
Arnold Kling is a Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He specializes in housing-finance policy, financial institutions, macroeconomics, and the inside workings of America’s federal financial institutions. He also is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
Kling has authored several books, most recently Specialization and Trade and The Three Languages of Politics. He has published articles in National Affairs, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Forbes, among others, and he blogs at arnoldkling.com/blog/.
Kling has testified before Congress on the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and on housing finance reform. Previously, Kling served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac and a staff economist on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He started Homefair, one of the first commercial websites on the Internet, until it was sold in 1999. He also has taught economics and statistics at Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, MD, and the Economics for the Citizen course at George Mason University.
Kling received his Ph. D in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Latest Work
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Who Is Living the Dream?
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
How Elite Institutions Lost Their Legitimacy
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Death and Politics
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Death and Politics
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Death and Politics
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Books Books
Reframing Financial Regulation
- | Low Interest Rates and the Economy: A Mercatus Colloquium Low Interest Rates and the Economy: A Mercatus Colloquium
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Research Papers Research Papers
What Would Change Interest Rates?
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Economists on the Welfare State and the Regulatory State: Why Don’t Any Argue in Favor of One and Against the Other?
- | Technology and Innovation Technology and Innovation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Sidestep the FCC and the FDA
Latest Work
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Who Is Living the Dream?
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
How Elite Institutions Lost Their Legitimacy
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Death and Politics
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Death and Politics
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Death and Politics
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Books Books
Reframing Financial Regulation
- | Low Interest Rates and the Economy: A Mercatus Colloquium Low Interest Rates and the Economy: A Mercatus Colloquium
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Research Papers Research Papers
What Would Change Interest Rates?
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Economists on the Welfare State and the Regulatory State: Why Don’t Any Argue in Favor of One and Against the Other?
- | Technology and Innovation Technology and Innovation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Sidestep the FCC and the FDA
Latest Work
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Simple Solutions to America’s Long-Term Budgetary Challenges
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Not What They Had in Mind: A History of Policies that Produced the Financial Crisis of 2008
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
The Unintended Consequences of International Bank Capital Standards
Latest Work
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Death and Politics
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Economists on the Welfare State and the Regulatory State: Why Don’t Any Argue in Favor of One and Against the Other?
- | Technology and Innovation Technology and Innovation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Sidestep the FCC and the FDA
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Four Key Questions on Housing Finance Reform
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
It’s All or Nothing. I Prefer Nothing
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Dodd-Frank Turns Two
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
President's Budget Still Focusing on Short-Term Instead of Long-Term
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary