Rent Check New research: financial stability and liquidity after the post-crisis reforms. News and Commentary Mark Calabria, chief economist to Vice President Mike Pence, was nominated to head the Federal [...]
Rent Check The good folks @YIMBYNeoliberal have released their platform. It's an excellent statement of what good urban policy should be, with something for folks on both the left and [...]
Rent Check New report from Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury on how to improve the U.S. healthcare system by increasing choice and competition. Among the many [...]
A new paper from the Annual Review of Financial Economics documents the effects of post-2008 reforms on liquidity and leverage during the financial crisis. Overall, they find that these reforms [...]
Between the passage of Minneapolis 2040, legislation introduced by California Senator Scott Wiener, London Breed’s push to streamline the development approval process in San Francisco, and renewed federal interest in [...]
Rent Check Where do "new" ideas come from? IP hawks tend to treat innovation as a series of leaps and bounds, in reality it's a process of incremental change and [...]
Last week, a joint report prepared by the Departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor articulated a number of potential reforms to inject more “choice and competition” into [...]
Rent Check 1. California Senator Scott Wiener, author of SB 827, has a new bill, SB 50, that borrows from his previous legislation to increase density and housing opportunity in [...]
Rent Check A new report from the Institute for Justice finds the indirect costs of occupational licensing through resource misallocation dwarf the costs of "deadweight loss." News and Commentary [...]
Rent Check 1. Anat Admati speaking on the need for greater equity financing and the myths that pervade our financial system. 2. The New York Fed's decision to deny The [...]