This Week in Land-Use Regulation, December 5th
News and Commentary An op-ed in The New York Times directly rebuts the claims made by Bernie Sanders on the affordability crisis in the Bay Area--specifically that Big Tech is responsible [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, December 4th
News and Commentary Texas Governor Greg Abbott has sent an order to Texas licensing administrations to not only review the regulations associated with each agency, but to also reduce fees [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, December 3rd
News and Commentary A column from VoxEU examines the role of liquidity, as opposed to capital, requirements in macroprudential policy. While liquidity requirements are traditionally viewed in the context of [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, December 2nd
News and Commentary Matthew Higbee is one of the many copyright trolls engaging in extortive behavior online. But this most recent case is rather interesting: he targeted a nonprofit that [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, November 14th
News and Commentary Bernie Sanders, ever the enemy of Big-X, has repeated the popular claim that it is big tech that is responsible for the housing crisis in Silicon Valley. [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, November 13th
News and Commentary A new bill in Pennsylvania, SB 637, which would prevent automatic denial of an occupational license for a criminal conviction, has passed out of committee. Listen to an [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, November 12th
News and Commentary Paul Krugman has published an op-ed criticizing "Wall Street snowflakes" for their opposition to Elizabeth Warren's candidacy. Krugman's polemics aside, he makes two important points. First, banks got [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, November 11th
News and Commentary An article in Harvard Business Review debunks three myths about China's IP regime. The PRC's forced technology transfer policies, while abused in the past, have been dialed back [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, November 7th
News and Commentary A piece from The Atlantic discusses the breakthrough Minneapolis 2040, which essentially abolished single-family zoning in Minneapolis. One of the most successful strategies was pointing out how sky-high [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, November 6th
News and Commentary Read this Christian Science Monitor piece on the Louisiana hair braiders that are filing suit, with the help of the Institute for Justice, to challenge the State's [...]