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...

High hopes for President Trump’s drug pricing plan

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 07/26/18 09:30 AM EDT In May, the President gave his first major speech on lowering drug prices, making good on his campaign promise to go after drug makers to get lower prices for consumers. Following the speech, the...