Arnold Kling
Arnold Kling is an independent scholar who writes about a wide variety of economic issues. He was an economist on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1980-1986, and served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986-1994. In 1994, he started Homefair.com, one of the first commercial sites on the World Wide Web. (Homefair was sold in 1999 to Homestore.com.) Kling is the author of several books, most recently Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, published by the Cato Institute. He also co-edits EconLog, a weblog devoted to economic issues. Kling received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
Cato Studies
"Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae: An Exit Strategy for the Taxpayer," Briefing Paper no. 106, September 8, 2008.
Opinion and Commentary
"Main Street vs. Wall Street," The American, October 3, 2008
"Politicians' Power Dwarfs the Rich," Orange County Register, June 22, 2008
"How to Fix Healthcare Delivery," The American, June 17, 2008
"Mandates for Change," The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2008
"When Health Care Becomes Personal," TCSdaily.com, January 29, 2008
Events
"Health Care University," December 10, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care," August 29, 2006 [Book Forum]
"Is the Massachusetts Health Plan a Model for the Nation?," May 23, 2006 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
Multimedia
"A Dark Bailout Scenario" featuring Arnold Kling, October 3, 2008 [Flash Audio, 00:00]
"Bailouts and Uncertainty" featuring Arnold Kling, September 25, 2008 [Flash Audio, 11:44]
"Freeze Fannie and Freddie" featuring Arnold Kling, September 9, 2008 [Flash Audio, 08:02]
"Cost Insulation or Health Insurance?" featuring Arnold Kling, February 5, 2007 [Flash Audio, 08:39]
"Rethinking Healthcare Spending" featuring Arnold Kling, September 1, 2006 [Flash Audio, 06:22]