News and Commentary Mercatus visiting fellow Kevin Erdmann argues that zoning restrictions and low property taxes are a toxic combination. Limiting the supply of housing confers windfall gains onto property owners, [...]
News and Commentary After a stint being homeless himself, Juan Carlos Montes de Oca learned cosmetology and began offering haircuts to homeless people who might otherwise go unkempt. All that [...]
News and Commentary Matt Stoller has an interesting issue of his BIG newsletter describing the inequality in how the Fed sets interests rates and, more importantly, who gets to borrow [...]
News and Commentary July's entry in EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" series is up! This particular stupid patent is owned by Anuwave LLC, and it covers technology that allows [...]
News and Commentary In Denver, a neighborhood group is attempting to preserve an eccentrically designed local restaurant. In doing so, they would prevent the owner from selling the establishment and [...]
News and Commentary What do Andrew Yang, Ivanka Trump, and Obama's economists all have in common? Other than a passion for mathematics, they all oppose excessive occupational licensing. An article [...]
Rent Check Dan Takash has a new post critiquing the regulatory treatment of Contingent Convertible bonds. CoCos function like normal debt until the borrower becomes financially distressed, then the loan [...]
We’ve previously written about Contingent Convertible (CoCo) bonds as an alternative to traditional debt and a tool to increase financial stability. CoCos are instruments that, while essentially the same as [...]
Rent Check This blog post details the profits earned by 2019's top movies. The worldwide box office totals alone have earned the films (all owned by Disney) fantastical returns, demonstrating how [...]
Rent Check John Hunt has an analysis of New York's latest package of tenant protections. The inclusionary zoning provisions, while a potential way to mitigate the (relatively) high price of [...]