Arnold Kling
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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
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Regulatory Capital: Enhanced Supplementary Leverage Ratio Standards for Certain Bank Holding Companies
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Four Key Questions on Housing Finance Reform
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Building a Sustainable Housing Finance System: Examining Regulatory Impediments to Private Investment Capital
- | 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
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Books Books
House of Cards: Reforming America's Housing Finance System
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
President's Budget Still Focusing on Short-Term Instead of Long-Term
- | U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
How a Default Might Play Out
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Spending Cuts Don’t Have to Mean Fewer Jobs
Latest Work
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Regulatory Capital: Enhanced Supplementary Leverage Ratio Standards for Certain Bank Holding Companies
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Four Key Questions on Housing Finance Reform
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Building a Sustainable Housing Finance System: Examining Regulatory Impediments to Private Investment Capital
- | 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
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Books Books
House of Cards: Reforming America's Housing Finance System
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
President's Budget Still Focusing on Short-Term Instead of Long-Term
- | U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
How a Default Might Play Out
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary