Arnold Kling

Arnold Kling was 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.