This Week in Intellectual Property, March 26th
Rent Check The EU Parliament passed its Directive on Copyright, including the dreaded Articles 11 and 13 (relabeled as 15 and 17). It's unambiguously bad for a free and open [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, March 21
Rent Check California's SB 50 recently saw some revisions. Despite continued NIMBY complaints, these changes improve the bill. In The New York Times, Nellie Bowles discusses how a new crop of tech millionaires [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, March 20
Rent Check A new Texas bill that would remove the occupational licensing requirement for cosmetologists is bringing out all the bad takes. We should focus on reducing rents and opening [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, March 19
Rent Check Are Bernie Sanders claims about the $1 trillion 2008 Bailout correct? Regardless of if they made the taxpayers money, bailing out the banks was a government subsidy for [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, March 18th
Rent Check A jury sided with Qualcomm in its patent infringement case against Apple. The Court's decision to use monetary damages could be a road map for how policymakers should [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, March 12th
Rent Check The Fed recently announced that they are keeping the Countercyclical Capital Buffer at zero. This goes against the advice of economists who argue that a higher CCyB would [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, March 11th
Rent Check Recent changes in law that limit where patent lawsuits can be filed are having an affect on business decisions. Apple closed its two locations in the notoriously patent [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, March 8th
Rent Check California bill SB 50 received the support of AARP California. The bill, which would upzone the areas surrounding transit and job projects, would help increase the housing supply [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, March 7th
Rent Check Can robots replace doctors? A new Brookings Institution post looks at the pros and cons of using AI to supplement health care professionals, but for now giving full [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, March 6th
Rent Check What good are accountability rules if they aren't followed? A recent report from the Government Accountability Office found that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's internal [...]