Welcome Tim Fernholz

We are pleased to welcome Tim Fernholz into the fold of the New America Foundation. He joins us as a research fellow based in the Asset Building Program. Tim is also currently a staff writer for the American Prospect magazine and has been doing some of the best reporting around on the financial reform debates. He was a presenter at our consumer financial protection event in February, and has remained focused on this important and timely beat.

I was planning to fill this post with links to recent articles of his that would be of interest to readers of this blog, but then this morning I realized he had just posted a piece (A Wall Street Cheat Sheet) with all the links already embedded. This link will take you to a series of articles by Tim and his colleagues at TAP on the current legislative debate, the problem of too big to fail, the importance of consumer protection, alternative regulatory fixes, and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. It is an impressive body of work. If you spend some time surfing through this material, I can guarantee you be more informed than many of the so-called experts.

He has an upcoming piece in the works which examines the issues of connecting underbanked households to financial services and some of the more interesting policy efforts underway to address this challenge. We’ll look forward to that as well as his reporting on the unfolding legislative process for financial reform.