A missed opportunity at holding banks accountable

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 04/21/19 09:30 AM EDT Earlier this year I raised concern that many of the lessons that should have been learned from the 2008 financial crisis had not been; and that incoming Chairwoman of the House Financial Services...

The GOP is making Ocasio-Cortez more popular

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 04/05/19 09:00 AM EDT No one saw her coming. The 29-year-old New York City bartender and political outsider who decided to call for a “political revolution” got herself elected to Congress as a Democrat last fall and...

Old scars of the 2008 crisis continue to be ignored

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 02/01/19 11:15 AM EST In 2007 the newly appointed Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke, declared that problems in the subprime mortgage market were so “limited” they would not create “significant spillovers.” Within a year,...

John McCain was no ordinary warrior

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 08/28/18 11:00 AM EDT On a hot summer’s day in 2007, presidential candidate John McCain found himself in a bit of pickle: He was stuck at Reagan National airport hoping to catch a flight that would get him to a meet...