Satya Thallam

Select Publications (with related presentations and coverage)

• “The Accelerating Cancellation of the Future,” Palladium Magazine, forthcoming.
• “Take Care and Break a Leg: The Internal Contradiction of Chief Justice Roberts’s Theory of Standing,” Notice & Comment, Yale Journal on Regulation, September 2026.
• “The Regulatory Three-Body Problem,” Notice & Comment, Yale Journal on Regulation, August 2026.
• “Void Where Prohibited: The Vacancy at the Heart of Federal Vacancies Law,” Notice & Comment, Yale Journal on Regulation, August 2026.
• Congress in a Post-Chevron World, Congressional testimony before the House Committee on Administration, July 2024.
• Message Incoming: Establish An AI Incident Reporting System, Federation of American Scientists, June 2024 (with David Robusto, Doug Calidas, and John Croxton).
• Congress May Soon Have More Homework, Foundation for American Innovation, June 2024 (with Dan Lips).
• Restoring Congressional Oversight Over Emergency Powers: Exploring Options to Reform the National Emergencies Act, Congressional testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, May 2024.
• Empowering Regulatory Oversight: How Congress Can Hold the Administrative State Accountable, Foundation for American Innovation, June 2024 (with Dan Lips).
• Never Ending Emergencies: An Examination of the National Emergencies Act, Congressional testimony before the House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, May 2023.
• “When ‘follow the science’ meets data nationalism,” op-ed, The Hill, March 2023.
• “Why Congress Needs to Improve Its Regulatory Oversight,” op-ed, National Review Online, December 2022 (with Dan Lips).
• “The Terminally Ill Deserve Right-to-Try Laws,” op-ed, The Wall Street Journal (ghostwritten on behalf of Sen. Ron Johnson), September 2016.
  • “A National Right to Life,” editorial, The Wall Street Journal, February 2017.
  • “Giving Patients One More Shot,” editorial, The Wall Street Journal, February 2018.
  • “A GOP Right-to-Try Fumble,” editorial, The Wall Street Journal, March 2018.
• Direct from the Source: Understanding Regulation from the Inside Out, Majority Staff Report, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, January 2016.
• Reform Principles for FSOC Designation Process, Policy Brief, American Action Forum, November 2014.
  • John Heltman, “Financial Groups to Press FSOC Over ‘Systemic’ Designations,” American Banker, November 2014.
• The Investor Cost of Designating Investment Funds as Systemically Important Financial Institutions, Policy Report, American Action Forum, May 2014.
  • “Pimco Provides a Real-World Test of FSOC’s Systemic Risk Hypothesis,” Insight, American Action Forum, January 2015.
  • “What Happens if Investment Funds are Labeled ‘Too Big to Fail’?” op-ed, Forbes, June 2014 (with Douglas Holtz-Eakin).
  • “Runs and the Asset Management Industry,” presentation to SIFMA Asset Management Group, Boston, MA, May 2014.
• Reconsidering Too Big to Fail, Policy Report, American Action Forum, March 2014.
  • “The Complicated Reality of ‘Too Big to Fail’,” op-ed, Real Clear Policy, March 2014.
  • “Too Big to Fail,” Congressional testimony delivered to Senate Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, July 2014, delivered by and prepared on behalf of Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
• “Reform the mortgage interest deduction,” The Hill, January 2014.
• “Flood Insurance,” Congressional testimony delivered to House Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, delivered by and prepared on behalf of Douglas Holtz-Eakin, November 2013.
  • “Get ready for rising premiums on flood insurance,” op-ed, The Hill, December 2013.
• The Federal Reserve’s Crisis Response, Policy Report, American Action Forum, September 2013.
  • “Federal Reserve,” Congressional testimony delivered to House Committee on Financial Services, December 2013, delivered by and prepared on behalf of Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
• “A Failed Model for GSE Reform,” Real Clear Policy, October 2013 (with Anthony B. Sanders).
• “Using Disparate Impact Analysis to Establish Discrimination in Lending,” Journal of Law, Economics & Policy, March 2013.
• House of Cards: Reforming America’s Housing Finance System, May 2012, as editor.
• “Legislative Proposals to End Taxpayer Funding for Ineffective Foreclosure Mitigation Programs,” Congressional testimony delivered to House Committee on Financial Services, March 2011 (with Anthony B. Sanders).
• “Subprime Mortgages: What Have We Learned from a New Class of Homeowners,” chapter 24 in Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and our Economic Future, 2010, ed. by Robert Kolb (with Todd Zywicki).
• 2008 International Property Rights Index, annual project of the Hernando de Soto Fellowship, Property Rights Alliance (with Karol Boudreaux, Richard Epstein, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky).