Washington Post’s Ezra Klein Names Roosevelt Institute as Key Source for Financial Reform

Yesterday, on his Think Tank blog, WP’s Ezra Klein alerted readers where they could find the best information on financial reform, now that the debate in DC is shifting from health care:

As it happens, all the links are to reports put out by the Roosevelt Institute, because it has been publishing the best introductory articles by far. For anyone who has the time and the inclination to really get up to speed, download the whole of the ‘Make Markets Be Markets‘ report (pdf).

For those of you who haven’t yet seen it, the report, written by the country’s leading financial thinkers (including the Roosevelt Institute’s Rob Johnson, Director of the Global Finance Project and Fellow Mike Konczal, both of whom blog on these pages), covers key areas of reform. Klein names these as his favorites:

1) Mike Konczal writes up Financial Reform 101. Anyone who doesn’t feel up to speed on FinReg should start here.

2) Richard Scott Carnell explains that “in banking, the debacle was above all a regulatory failure.”

3) Elizabeth Warren makes the case for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

4) Raj Date argues that it’s time to get ride of Fannie and Freddie.

5) Rob Johnson lays out what it will take to end the ‘Too Big to Fail’ threat.

Hat tip to Klein for getting the word out on these critical reports. **Visit the MakeMarketsBeMarkets website to view video presentations by the report’s authors at Roosevelt March 3rd conference.