This Week in Financial Regulation, September 22nd
News and Commentary At the American Action Forum, Thomas Wade analyzes the FHFA's decision to end policies limiting government-sponsored enterprises from buying risky mortgages. "In what is primarily a problem of housing supply, increasing housing demand [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, September 17th
News and Commentary In Full Stack Economics, Timothy Lee summarizes recent papers finding desirable cascading effects of new luxury housing: "Often, the person who rents the new apartment is moving out of an old apartment in [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, September 17th
News & Commentary In the Newnan-Times Herald, Marc Hyden discusses occupational licensing in Georgia: "Rather than creating and maintaining illogical impediments to work, policymakers would be wise to re-examine occupational licensing regimes critically. They need to [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, September 17th
News and Commentary In an article in The Washington Post, Rachel Siegel covers the state of play in Biden's pick for the Federal Reserves Vice Chair for Supervision, alternatively known as "the Fed's top banking cop." [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, September 17th
Rent Check Happy Constitution Day! Last year I wrote a piece discussing the relationship between the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and intellectual property rights. In summary, while intellectual property rights are a generally good idea [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, August 27th
News and Commentary In an article from the Regulatory Review, Alana Sheppard summarizes a recent report from the Brookings Institution arguing that housing affordability problems have resulted from zoning restrictions. In a post on Liberty Street [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, August 26th
News and Commentary Good news from the Tar Heel State: Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has declined a motion to dismiss a claim under the North Carolina Abusive Patent Assertions Act [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing Regulation, August 26th
News and Commentary In a press release, the government of Pennsylvania announced the release of its occupational licensing “snapshots,” which will “providing simple descriptions of professional licensing requirements” In a press release, the government of Pennsylvania [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, August 25th
News and Commentary In an episode of the Macro Musings podcast, host David Beckworth discusses the growth of the Federal Reserve with Bill Nelson, Chief Economist at the Bank Policy Institute. In a policy brief for [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, August 20th
In a piece for Greater Greater Washington, Libby Solomon discusses a new report on the DC Flexible Rent Subsidy Program. According to Solomon, the report suggests that “it’s too soon to tell what effect the program [...]