News and Commentary Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property convened a hearing titled Innovation in America: How Congress Can Make Our Patent System STRONGER, focusing on the STRONGER patents [...]
News and Commentary This article makes the case that affluent single-family neighborhoods are the true culprits of gentrification. By blocking adequate construction in their backyard, they end up pushing growing [...]
News and Commentary President of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners lays out the gamut of the potential scope of practice reforms. Looking across regimes, states with restrictive laws tend [...]
News and Commentary The Fed has proposed imposing an 8% risk-adjusted capital requirement on the insurance companies it oversees. These insurance companies are so-called "shadow banks"--major financial institutions who face [...]
News and Commentary The CASE Act risks dragging people to court for small-time or inadvertent copyright infringement. This policy could not affect the real problems of corporate or foreign piracy [...]
News and Commentary The Trump administration is looking to update the Community Reinvestment Act. Meant to undo the history of redlining, the act incentives banks to lend to any low-income [...]
News and Commentary The Democratic primary has almost exclusively focused on the demand side of America's health care problems to the determined of other solutions to bring down costs and [...]
Rent Check A new paper from Niskanen's own Monica Prasad explores the tradeoff between social insurance and credit. Instead of providing resources to increase consumption by the least well off [...]
Rent Check A new blog post examines the recent copyright disputes involving Katy Perry and Led Zeppelin. If successful, these suits threaten to tie up the entire industry in expensive [...]
News and Commentary In order to fund some needed renovations, an historic Harlem church was planning to sell a part of their land for a highrise development. However, their proposal [...]