This Week in Intellectual Property, May 21st
Rent Check A lawsuit between the creator of the Pepe the frog meme and the far-right website infowars for use of the frog's likeness creates some open questions on the [...]
Alt Right vs Copyright
Pepe the Frog has gone from a relatively obscure cartoon character to an icon of the alt right. The use of Pepe’s likeness in a poster for sale on the [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, May 16th
News and Commentary SB 50 has been postponed until January 2020. The bill was postponed and will likely undergo revisions, after fierce opposition from neighborhood supervisors and other local groups. [...]
Affordable Housing and City Welfare
Housing affordability has become the main policy challenge for most large cities in the world. Zoning, rent control, housing vouchers, and tax credits are the main levers employed by policy [...]
The rise and effects of homeowners associations
In the U.S., nearly 60% of recently built single-family houses, and 80% of houses in new subdivisions, are part of a homeowners association (HOA). We construct the first near-national map [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, May 15th
News and Commentary Conor Norris in Catalyst, the blog of the Independent Institute, argues for the expanded use of nurse practitioners by using the one argument in the debate that [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, May 14th
News and Commentary A Pro-Market blog post summarizing the research of Josh Ryan-Collins finds that financial deregulation in the 1980s that removed "credit guidance" led to a decline in investment [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, May 13th
News and Commentary Michael Rosen of the American Enterprise Institute summarizes the Thom Tillis and Chris Coons Section 101 reform outline. This would change patent eligibility standards by defining a [...]
Bank vs. Non-Bank Leverage
The Fed Board of Governors released the May Financial Stability report to give a status update on the resilience of the financial system today. There is one section in particular, “Leverage [...]
May 2019 Financial Stability Report
This report presents the Federal Reserve Board’s current assessment of the resilience of the U.S. financial system. By publishing this report, the Board intends to promote public under- standing and [...]