Personnel is Policy at the OCC
If we ever solve the problems of fixing the broken financial markets that promote Wall Street’s casino capitalism at the expense of productive investments built around relationship banking, the solutions will surely come in many different [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, October 22nd
News and Commentary In the Huffington Post, Daniel Maranas writes about the European Union's alternative "waiver" text in its negotiations over the TRIPS waiver. In it, he outlines the proposal (which you can read here) which [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, October 22nd
News and Commentary On VoxEU's economics podcast, Maurice Obstfeld talks with Tim Phillips about the history of financial globalization and its future. The Cato Institute's Norbert Michel comments on indications that the Fed will incorporate climate [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, October 22nd
News and Commentary At the Diamondback, Shreya Vuttaluru covers ongoing zoning revisions in Prince George's county: it "shouldn’t significantly alter housing and development in College Park, but it could raise housing prices in nearby Langley Park. [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, October 22nd
News and Commentary Asian News International reports on clashes between police and doctors in Pakistan after the Pakistan Medical Commission made the National Licensing Exam mandatory. Nancy Hemphill reports for Healio on a new California law: [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, October 15th
Rent Check The process to become a lawyer in the United States is an arduous one, both objectively speaking and relative to other nations around the world. Peter Van Ness has some suggestions on how we [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, October 15th
News and Commentary At AEI, Edward Pinto and Tobias Peter present the latest trends in home purchases. "In Sep. 2021, while increases in second and investment purchase rate lock volume continued to outpace primary purchase rate [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, October 15th
New Research In an NBER working paper, Katharina Bergant and Kristin Forbes utilized the policy responses to COVID-19 "to examine how macroprudential frameworks developed over the past decade performed during a period of heightened financial and [...]
Liberalizing Legal Education
"If you are absolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself the thing is more than half done already. It is a small matter whether you read with any one or not. I did not read [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, October 13th
News and Commentary The Niskanen Center has proudly joined a letter with a group of copyright reformers encouraging the Biden Administration to ensure that discussions of a TRIPS waiver--which the administration supported last May--include copyright reforms. [...]