Arnold Kling
Arnold Kling
- Former economist Federal Reserve and Freddie Mac
- Member Financial Markets Working Group
Arnold Kling is a member of the Mercatus Center’s Financial Markets Working Group. As a member of the working group, Dr. Kling draws on his experience at Freddie Mac and the Federal Reserve to increase understanding of monetary policy, the regulation “anomaly,” and the inside workings of America's federal financial institutions.
Dr. Kling served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986-1994. He was an economist on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1980-1986. Previously, he started one of the first commercial websites on the World Wide Web, Homefair. He has taught economics and statistics at Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland, and economic citizenship at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Dr. Kling has authored three books, Learning Economics, a collection of essays on economic issues, Under the Radar, and Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care. He co-authors EconLog with Brian Caplan, and he is a contributing editor for TCSDaily. He has testified before Congress on the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He has been an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.
Dr. Kling earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.