This Week in Financial Regulation, October 8th
News and Commentary At the Wall Street Journal, Simon Clark and Caitlin Ostroff cover banks' resistance to the Basel Committee's proposed rules for cryptocurrency assets. From the banks' letter to [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, October 8th
News and Commentary The Staff at Antelope Valley Press covered Representative Mike Garcia's amendment granting licensing reciprocity for military families. In Chalkbeat Indiana, Aleksandra Appleton breaks down the Indiana legislature's [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, October 8th
News and Commentary In a paper in the American Economic Review, Enrico Moretti evaluates whether high-tech clusters, highly concentrated in relatively few cities, influence inventor productivity, finding that "When an [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, October 8th
News and Commentary Writing for the Niskanen Center's main website, I discuss why the month of September has been so fantastic for drug pricing reform. After the Biden Administration's focus [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, October 1st
News and Commentary In TechDirt, Mike Masnick criticizes an op-ed by Michael Rosen in The Hill. Rosen maintains that the proposed TRIPS waiver has done nothing to help the COVID-19 [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, October 1st
News and Commentary From the White House, President Biden's nominations for key regulatory and investor protection positions were announced. At Reuters, Jonnelle Marte reports on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, October 1st
News and Commentary For The Hill, Benjamin McMichael draws on his recent research to make the case for discontinuing nurse practitioner (NP) supervision requirements: "Allowing NPs to practice without physician [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, October 1st
News and Commentary At Reason, Sasha Volokh explores in detail the constitutionality of universities' influence on zoning. In Spur, Michael Lane heralds the flurry of housing-friendly legislation signed in California [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, September 24th
News and Commentary Ed Glaeser and David Cutler offer an essay in the Wall Street Journal on mobility through the US, adapted from their new book. "It’s a troubling sign [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, September 23rd
News and Commentary At Landscape Architecture Magazine, Stephen Zacks lays out recent history in licensing of landscape architecture and offers a perspective: "In a sense, professional licensure belongs to a [...]