This Week in Financial Regulation, July 29th
News and Commentary In an article in The Wall Street Journal, Kate Davidson and Andrew Restuccia covers Biden’s impending nomination of Graham Steele to be assistant Treasury secretary for financial [...]
Lots to Love: The Biden Competition Executive Order on Intellectual Property
Earlier this month, the Biden administration unveiled the executive order entitled “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” I wrote about it more broadly here. In short, I think the executive [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 27th
News and Commentary Juan Londoño has a primer for the American Action Forum about right-to-repair measures discussed in President Biden's executive order on competition. He is overly generous when dealing [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, July 23rd
News and Commentary In a piece in New York Magazine, Eric Levitz argues that Tucker Carlson’s and JD Vance’s brand of populism would primarily benefit the “small-time rich” due to [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing Regulation, July 22nd
News and Commentary In an article in The Week, magazine staff cover prominent journalists’ responses to the Biden Administration’s recent executive order to promote competition. In an opinion piece for [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, July 21st
News and Commentary In an article in Reuters, Howard Schneider, Ann Saphir, and Jonnelle Marte cover Fed chair Powell’s recent appearance before the Senate Banking Committee to answer questions about [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 21st
Rent Check It's patent quality week! I have written about patent quality as it relates to property rights. In short, if we want to view patents as property, then we [...]
Patent Quality Week: Building on Solid Ground
The US patent system is a load-bearing feature of the innovation ecosystem and American industrial policy. It’s not always the right tool for the job, but in an economic system [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, July 16th
News and Commentary In an article in Arlington Now, Joe DeVoe covers Amazon’s recent donation of $40 million worth of vacant land on which the county may develop new affordable [...]
Course-Correcting on Competition
Last Friday, President Biden signed an executive order entitled “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” In it, he made the case that over the past 40 years, the United States [...]