This Week in Occupational Licensing, April 18th
Rent Check After a lengthy discussion on Twitter, here is our response to the criticisms made by various MDs and MD advocacy groups in opposition to Pennsylvania's SB 25. News [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, April 19th
Rent Check Christian Britschgi in Reason on how a selectively enforced Nashville ordinance prevents home studios from participating in the city's $5 billion music industry. News and Commentary AEI has a [...]
Trust Them, Even if They’re Not Doctors
A twitter thread of mine commenting on the ability of nurse practitioners (NPs) to perform most of the functions primary care physicians (PCMDs) can perform generated a significant amount of [...]
Music City’s Restrictions on Music
In Reason, Christian Britschgi writes about how a Nashville ordinance that makes it illegal to have a home business restricts the ability of independent musicians to commercialize their creative works [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, April 17th
Rent Check While Jamie Dimon is right that a free market system should be preferred, he is misguided in his claim that capital requirements interfere with that system. Instead, they [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, April 16th
Rent Check Elizabeth Warren has proposed a national right to repair law for farm equipment. The New York Times editorial board argues this should be expanded to cover all third-party [...]
Supporters of Capitalism Should Support Capital (Requirements)
In his annual report, J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon gave a full-throated defense of the free-market capitalist system: There is no question that capitalism has been the most successful [...]
Protecting the Right to Repair Your iPhone
While many on the left, most notably Elizabeth Warren, are pushing for a revival of antitrust, here’s one specific policy that could rein in tech giants and has momentum for [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, April 12th
News and Commentary Howard Weiss-Tisman analyses a new report on the effects of Vermont joining an interstate nursing compact. While it could help the nursing shortage, the report argues that, [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, April 11th
Rent Check A new NBER paper looks at how stress testing of central counterparts should better incorporate the "topography" of the financial sector with CCPs at the middle. News [...]