News and Commentary: A recent news report in Reason finds local governments in California are stalling construction of backyard cottages, an ideal way to increase density during a pandemic. Deregulating [...]
News and Commentary: Adam Millsap warns in Forbes that occupational licensing and zoning policies will delay a recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and recession. He helpfully summarizes findings from an [...]
News and Commentary: American Action Forum has a helpful summary of the Federal Housing Finance Agency's proposed GSE capital requirement rule. The proposal is modified from 2018 and sets a [...]
News and Commentary A new report published at Cato by Alex Nowrasteh and Michelangelo Landgrave assesses the benefits of expanding healthcare worker visas. The authors discuss new bipartisan legislation to [...]
News and Commentary Economic Innovation Group has a second report on neighborhood poverty in addition to the one we covered last week, forming a project on the topic as a [...]
News and Commentary Mercatus Center’s Macro Musings podcast has a new episode interviewing Anat Admati of Stanford University. The host David Beckworth asks some insightful questions on Covid-19 and Admati [...]
News and Commentary Brookings Institute has a new report on how Covid-19 might impact the impressive growth rate that has been seen in the last decade for metropolitan downtowns across [...]
News and Commentary Georgia’s Secretary of State announced his office will be releasing plans in the coming weeks to overhaul licensing for various trades. He believes these policy changes will [...]
News and Commentary The Intercept’s Lee Fang writes about efforts by GOP lawmakers to deregulate the banking sector during the Covid-19 crisis. He argues that reducing regulations such as capital [...]
News and Commentary Governor Whitmer of Michigan signed an executive order suspending scope-of-practice laws past the deadline of a prior order. Michigan’s legislature should consider making such changes permanent. Unfortunately, [...]