This Week in Financial Regulation, October 28th
News and Commentary Michael Barr, Howell Jackson, and Margaret Tahyar opine in The Regulatory Review that the Main Street Lending Program and other Federal ex post facto COVID induced recession [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, October 27th
Rent Check Despite his best efforts, Tom Lehrer's dedication of all of his lyrics to the public doesn't mean that they're in the public domain due to features of U.S. [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, October 23rd
News and Commentary Liberty Towers affordable housing development faces zoning map, text, and permit barriers to construction in St. George, Staten Island, writes Vanessa Londono for New York's Yes In [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, October 22nd
News and Commentary Matt Shafer announces that The Council of State Governments has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to support development of new interstate compacts addressing [...]
Tom Lehrer Dedicates his Songs to the Public Domain…Sort of
Tom Lehrer is one of the most brilliant people in human history. Though a Harvard-trained mathematician, his most famous works are in the field of musical satire. A pioneer in [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, October 21st
News and Commentary Hannah Lang observes Randal Quarles' potential indication that the Fed will not make permanent May's interim exclusion of Treasury securities and Federal regional bank deposits from supplementary [...]
A Bailout for Theaters at $0 to Taxpayers
Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark’s media newsletter “Screen Time” (which I encourage readers to subscribe to) had an interesting article about how movie studios are continuing to leverage their power [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, October 20th
Rent Check We don't have much to go on in figuring out how a Justice Amy Coney Barrett would rule when it comes to intellectual property, but an exchange with [...]
ACB & IP
Intellectual property is usually the red-headed stepchild of Supreme Court nomination hearings, and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is no exception. With few cases to go on, most of [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, October 16th
News and Commentary Michael Powe and Hanna Love extrapolate from a small business owners survey for Brookings, writing that rural businesses' proximity to each other is critical to economic recovery [...]