Making Financial Markets Safer for Consumers

In this issue:

• Housing and the Federal Reserve
• Upfront: New Rules on Overdraft Fees; Rethinking Credit Rating Organizations
• Making Financial Markets Safer for Consumers: Lessons from Consumer Goods Markets and Beyond
• A Framework for Systemically Important Institutions: Too Big to Fail or Not Too Big to Fail?
• The Foreclosure Timeline: The Curious Case of Cleveland’s Foreclosure Rate
• Interview with Matthew Kahn
• Can Foreclosures Be a Neighborhood’s Best Friend?