This Week in Land Use Regulation, February 6th
News and Commentary California Senate Leader Toni Atkins recently gave a statement on SB 50's failure to pass the Senate, explaining that "opponents of SB 50 have real concerns, but [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, February 4th
News and Commentary How risky are Bank Holding Companies (BHC) today? A new blog post at Liberty Street Economics investigates this question while looking at BHCs and finds similar trends [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, January 30th
News and Commentary Noah Smith writes at Bloomberg Opinion about the necessity of new construction to address the housing crisis ongoing in many large cities. He points to development restrictions [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, January 29th
News and Commentary New Jersey lawmakers have rejected legislation that would have expanded the scope of practice of advanced practice registered nurses. Groups such as the American Medical Association have [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, January 28th
New Research A new NBER paper examines the role of leverage in an economy, modeling out the theory of how assets can function as collateral. They find assets used as [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, January 23rd
News and Commentary California's SB 50 is once again back in the game with new changes to give local governments more discretion on where zoning changes occur before density mandates [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, January 22nd
News and Commentary Florida's State Senate and House are considering legislation to prevent local governments from imposing any occupational licenses not required state-wide. Governor Ron DeSantis has pushed for similar [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, January 21st
News and Commentary Listen to Cato's Diego Zuluaga discuss banking consolidation. New Research A paper at the Centre for Economic Policy Research analyzes Switzerland's extra capital requirements and the [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, January 20th
News and Commentary Youtube is allowing creators to address copyright disputes with their published videos by giving an option to simply trim out the disputed content in the video. This [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, January 9th
News and Commentary Edward J. Pinto and Tobias Peter in MarketWatch observe the rising cost of entry-level housing and argue it can be lowered by abolishing single-family zoning. AEI's James [...]