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28 May 2014, 6:35 am
A few weeks ago I participated in a program at the Cato Institute on “Bruno Leoni at 101″ with Aberto Mingardi, Roger Pilon, and Pete Boettke. [read post]
24 May 2014, 11:17 am
The Justice Department’s “Operation Choke Point” initiative has been shrouded in secrecy, but now it is starting to come to light. [read post]
22 May 2014, 2:11 pm
My co-authors and I been having a devilish time coming up with the cover art for our forthcoming book on consumer credit. [read post]
17 May 2014, 5:08 am
It is the season of campus thuggery and bizarre double-standards on the range of acceptable speech on campus. [read post]
12 May 2014, 7:35 am
The Wall Street Jounral has a fascinating story on the front page about the operations of banks located inside Wal-Mart–although not really for the reason that the reporters believe it is interesting. [read post]
3 May 2014, 7:06 pm
Tuesday May 6 at lunch I will be participating in a program at the Cato Institute, “Bruno Leoni at 101. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 9:05 pm
Circuit panel partially overturns SEC conflict minerals law [Bainbridge, more, more, Adler, earlier] Dodd-Frank vs. small banks, cont’d [Todd Zywicki] A failing grade for new Financial Stability Oversight Council? [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 6:08 am
I’ve written on several occasions of my hypothesis that the eventual legacy of Dodd-Frank will be to promote consolidation of the banking industry, driving out small banks and entrenching too big to fail. [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 9:21 am
The question of what to do, if anything, about high-frequency trading has been much in the news in recent weeks, largely as a result of Michael Lewis’s new book on the subject (which I haven’t read yet). [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 2:53 pm
I have a new column posted at Forbes.com with Adam Smith, “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: A Toxic Workplace Begets Toxic Policies For Consumers. [read post]
14 Mar 2014, 9:02 am
I have just posted a new paper, “Uncertainty, Evolution, and Behavioral Economic Theory” on SSRN (co-authored with Geoffrey Manne). [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 7:02 am
I just finished a new paper with economist Adam Smith (no, not that one) “Behavior, Paternalism, and Policy: Evaluating Consumer Financial Protection. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 7:54 am
One of the more surprising (that’s a euphemism, by the way) ideas of addressing the problem of unbanked and underbanked consumers is the idea of getting the United States Post Office into the banking business (here’s the post office’s proposal). [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 9:59 am
The Mercatus Center has just released the results of a survey of 200 small banks (less than $10 billion in assets) that serve rural and small metropolitan markets in 41 states. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 12:03 pm
Some readers may have noticed Gordon Crovitz’s column in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago on the FTC’s Consent Decree with Apple dealing with Apple’s iTunes store. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 6:35 am
Last week, E.J. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 6:26 am
A couple of years ago I co-authored a law review article on the soap opera bankruptcy case of the late Anna Nicole Smith that led to the Supreme Court’s decision in Stern v. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 8:05 pm
If you’ve answered a consumer survey about which pharmaceuticals you take, you may be hearing from this guy’s staff [Paul Barrett, Business Week on mass tort "lead generator"] Jury awards $9 million to Vancouver, Wash. man imprisoned for 20 years after wrongful child abuse conviction [Insurance Journal; The Columbian/Seattle Times 2009] Product liability: jury awards $18 million in fatal fire attributed to altered space heater [Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, outcome subject to… [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 8:05 pm
If you’ve answered a consumer survey about which pharmaceuticals you take, you may be hearing from this guy’s staff [Paul Barrett, Business Week on mass tort "lead generator"] Jury awards $9 million to Vancouver, Wash. man imprisoned for 20 years after wrongful child abuse conviction [Insurance Journal; The Columbian/Seattle Times 2009] Product liability: jury awards $18 million in fatal fire attributed to altered space heater [Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, outcome subject to… [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 5:47 am
A couple of weeks ago I attended the premiere of the new movie “Bankrupt: How Cronyism and Corruption Brought Down Detroit. [read post]