Here’s How Bernie Can Still be Right on $1 Trillion Bailout
Last week, Senator and Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders made the claim: Not one major Wall Street executive went to jail for destroying our economy in 2008 as a result of [...]
Apple Loses Patent Infringement Case Against Qualcomm
This Friday, a jury awarded Qualcomm $31 million in a patent infringement suit against Apple. Report Edvard Pettersson and Bill Callahan of Bloomberg: Qualcomm Inc. won the first U.S. jury [...]
Bad Arguments On Parade in Texas
A few months ago, we critiqued an essay that gave a critical look at the arguments against occupational licensing. We wholeheartedly disagreed with the authors’ analysis, but they made serious [...]
Not at All Quiet on the Western Front: SB 50 Updates
We’ve previously covered California SB 50, Sen. Scott Wiener’s second crack (after last year’s SB 827 died in committee last April) at a move to increase density in areas near [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, March 14th
Happy Pi Day! Rent Check Daniel Shoag has an excellent review of the current debate on housing supply published by Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project. Knowing what doesn't work is just [...]
Should Law Subsidize Driving?
A century ago, captains of industry and their allies in government launched a social experiment in urban America: the abandonment of mass transit in favor of a new personal technology, [...]
How Not to Address the Housing Affordability Crisis
Daniel Shoag of the Harvard Kennedy School has an excellent review of the literature on the housing affordability crisis and a number of reforms to increase housing supply across the [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, March 13th
Rent Check A bill in Arkansas would give pharmacists the power to administer oral contraceptives. News and Commentary A commentary on a recent report from the National Council on [...]
Arkansas to Legalize Pharmacists to Provide Contraceptive Access
Another modest reform to pharmacist scope-of-practice has been introduced in Arkansas, this time to allow pharmacists to prescribe oral contraceptives: An act to amend the the provisions of the Arkansas [...]
Housing Improvement Market Grows
When developers and homeowners can’t invest by increasing the number of housing units offered, they turn to other opportunities to increase the value of their homes, namely through renovations and [...]