Arnold Kling
- 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.
Publications & Appearances
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
The Five Channels of Debt Reduction: Economic and Policy Tools for Reducing the Debt-to-GDP Ratio
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
No Leaders, No Demands
Arnold Kling and Martin Gurri discuss social movements in the digital age. Read more at Discourse.
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
Living in a Post-Truth Age
Recently, the Mercatus Center’s executive director, Dan Rothschild, sat down with Arnold Kling and Martin Gurri to discuss the…
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Discourse Magazine Podcast Discourse Magazine Podcast
Living in a Post-Truth Age
Dan Rothschild talks to Arnold Kling and Martin Gurri about how a collapse of trust in established institutions has led to a…
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Instead of Paycheck Protection, the Government Should Ensure Access to Credit
Any business or individual with a checking account should be able to get a cheap, government-backed loan. Read more at Discourse…
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Instead of Paycheck Protection, the Government Should Ensure Access to Credit
Here we go again. Another $310 billion in funds were just added to the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) created by…
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
A Government-Backed Line of Credit Would Help Small Businesses More Than Current Relief Efforts
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Political Demonization in the Time of Coronavirus
The pandemic has not changed how we disagree with each other. Read more at Discourse.
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Political Demonization in the Time of Coronavirus
The crisis caused by the novel coronavirus has not changed the tone of American political rhetoric. Although many people have…
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Who Is Living the Dream?
In his new book, economist Michael Strain argues that the American Dream is still very much alive. Read more at Discourse.