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The Enduring Legacy Of Modern Efficient Market Theory After Halliburton V. John, Mark Klock
The Enduring Legacy Of Modern Efficient Market Theory After Halliburton V. John, Mark Klock
Georgia Law Review
In 1988 the U.S. Supreme Court approved the fraud on the market theory for securities trading in an efficient market thus enabling securities class action plaintiffs to establish their required reliance element of the case through a rebuttable presumption. Basic v. Levinson held that efficient markets incorporate publicly disseminated information and investors who purchased or sold securities in an efficient market therefore relied on any publicly disseminated misinformation. For more than a quarter century since Basic, the efficient market theory has sustained a barrage of assaults from commentators who object to the use of economic theory in legal decision making …
Underwriting Sustainable Homeownership: The Federal Housing Administration And The Low Down Payment Loan, David Reiss
Underwriting Sustainable Homeownership: The Federal Housing Administration And The Low Down Payment Loan, David Reiss
Georgia Law Review
The United States Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has been a versatile tool of government since it was created during the Great Depression. The FHA was created in large part to inject liquidity into a moribund mortgage market. It succeeded wonderfully, with rapid growth during the late 1930s. The federal government repositioned it a number of times over the following decades to achieve a variety of additional social goals. These goals included supporting civilian mobilization during World War II; helping veterans returning from that war; stabilizing urban housing markets during the 1960s; and expanding minority homeownership rates during the 1990s. It …