News and Commentary Matt Shafer announces that The Council of State Governments has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to support development of new interstate compacts addressing [...]
News and Commentary Hannah Lang observes Randal Quarles' potential indication that the Fed will not make permanent May's interim exclusion of Treasury securities and Federal regional bank deposits from supplementary [...]
News and Commentary Michael Powe and Hanna Love extrapolate from a small business owners survey for Brookings, writing that rural businesses' proximity to each other is critical to economic recovery [...]
Rent Check Alex Muresianu has a guest post discussing the role of occupational licensing fees and state finances. Though a tempting source of revenue, relying on licensing fees to shore [...]
The pricing power that copyright protections grant academic journal oligopolists has enabled extraordinary price increases in the last few decades. Taira Meadowcroft, a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of [...]
News and Commentary Six New York Fed economists assess COVID induced dividend suspensions' impact on capital ratios and buffers. Telis Demos writes that additional stimulus spending may increase the effect [...]
News and Commentary Sammy Caiola reports for NPR's CapRadio that California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill allowing nurse practitioners (NPs) to diagnose patients and prescribe medications; still, NPs [...]
News and Commentary Elizabeth Weil and Mollie Simon investigate land use regulation's role in California's wildfires in a ProPublica piece. They find that over a quarter of Californians live in [...]
News and Commentary John Crabb forecasts a Biden-Harris administration's financial regulation in an International Finance Law Review article. A Fed proposal would roll recent stress tests in with a 2019 [...]
News and Commentary Jenny Schuetz at Brookings describes the insights and limitations of the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey which gives a forward looking metric for roughly predicting future evictions. [...]