Subsidies to homeownership have disfavored renters through regressive regulations, lavishly subsidized bigger homes, and played no small role in the most crippling financial crisis and economic downturn since the Great [...]
News and Commentary Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee marked up the "No Combination Drug Patents Act", aimed at rolling back drug "evergreening." Drug companies will often tinker with already [...]
Last month, New York State responded to the affordable housing crisis by enacting a host of tenant protections. The law implements a wide range of changes from added eviction defenses [...]
On Monday, the Utah Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional an attempt to limit malpractice suits by the state's medical board. Given this naked defense of doctors’ interests at the [...]
News and Commentary Jenny Schuetz and Cecile Murry have a great post on the need for California to build more housing units...a lot of them. Not only are apartment buildings [...]
News and Commentary Andrew Yang wants to take a page from Arizona and Pennsylvania by increasing the probability of occupational licensing through broader recognition of out-of-state licenses. While he's not [...]
News and Commentary In an op-ed for The Hill, Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University makes the comprehensive case for narrow banking. Much like a mutual fund, it is simply impossible [...]
News and Commentary James Stansel of PhRMA penned an opposing view in USA Today on the importance of patents to the pharmaceutical industry. It's rather uninspired, and only goes through [...]
News and Commentary While the Federal government traditionally has little to do with zoning and land-use regulations, Nick Zaiac writes about the tools at HUD's disposal to liberalize regulations that [...]
News and Commentary The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs now requires certified professional midwives to be licensed starting August 1st. Nurse midwives, who are licensed separately, will only [...]