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 [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, November 5th
News and Commentary An op-ed in The Hill by Laura Kodres argues that 10 years after Dodd-Frank, we need to rethink the legislation. Specifically, she argues for reexamining the Volcker Rule, the [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, November 4th
News and Commentary An article in IAM discusses the global landscape for patent litigation. The rules and challenges associated with patent litigation vary from country to country (in this case, [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, October 31st
News and Commentary Christian Britschgi has an article in Reason about how Facebook's plan to solve the state's housing affordability problem will fail to resolve the affordability crisis as long as restrictive [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, October 29th
New Research In Tennessee, a new state law that provides an alternative to the traditional licensing regulations has upset some of the industry's professionals but finds support from others who [...]