Annual percentage rate
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Op-Ed
What Does a Pizza Have to Do With a Loan?
I was reading about Linney’s Pizza v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a case involving a Kentucky pizza shop and the fees merchants pay on debit-card transactions, and it got me thinking about…
Originally published inDC Journal
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Op-Ed
Mortgage rates just fell below a crucial psychological threshold
The difference from a 6 percent rate is tiny, but the appeal to customers is big.
Originally published inThe Washington Post
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Policy Brief
Buried in Bias
The Center for Responsible Lending’s “Buried in Debt” report fails as policy analysis.
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Policy Brief
The Need to Modernize Financial Literacy in Uncertain Economic Times
A modernized financial-literacy framework must equip students with practical, real-world tools to navigate an increasingly complex and often predatory consumer-finance landscape.
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White Paper
The Case Against 50-Year Mortgages
How will Washington’s housing “fix” entrench debt, inflate prices, and undermine the American Dream?
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Policy Brief
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Reply Is the Real Joke
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s slow, self-serving defense of the 30-year mortgage proves that lifetime debt, not homeownership, is the product they’re really selling.
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Policy Brief
The Real Cost of Homeownership: Beyond the Mortgage and APR
This guest commentary was written by Ed Harris, CEO of Harris Northwest Advisors and a Visiting Contributor at the Southwest Public Policy Institute. In his argument about APR, Patrick Brenner is wrong but inadvertently correct on…
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Policy Brief
Compounding Interest: The Case Against the Confused Case Against the Case Against 30-Year Mortgages
In his letter responding to my column in The Wall Street Journal, “The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages,” former Freddie Mac executive David Andrukonis defends the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage as a transparent, borrower-friendly product. In “A Confused…
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Policy Brief
Compounding Interest: Reader Replies, Part IV
When you publish in The Wall Street Journal, you have to expect a few readers to come out swinging. Some disagree on principle; others on tone. And then there are those who lecture you like you…
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Policy Brief
Compounding Interest: Reader Replies, Part III
The responses to my article for The Wall Street Journal “The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages” keep coming… They’re thoughtful, challenging, and occasionally humbling. What started as a critique of an outdated lending standard has evolved into…