Search for: "Todd Zywicki"
Results 381 - 400
of 880
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
3 Feb 2011, 5:14 pm
(Todd Zywicki) Pawnshops have grown rapidly during the credit crunch and have started lending further up the income ladder from their traditional base–and will continue to grow I expect as regulation of credit cards and interchange fees drives more people out of mainstream financial institutions:Pawnshop respectability surged when the economy faltered, noted the National Pawnbrokers Association’s Murphy. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 8:23 am
(Todd Zywicki) The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics has just announced the inaugural Carl Menger Essay Prize for undergraduate students. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 5:28 am
(Todd Zywicki) My new white paper with Philippe Bergevin of the C.D. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 10:26 am
(Todd Zywicki) The Bill of Rights Institute has just produced a nifty new video on The Rule of Law and why it matters. [read post]
4 May 2010, 3:25 pm
(Todd Zywicki) The Competitive Enterprise Institute has filed an FTC complaint against General Motors for its claim that it has paid off its bailout loan “in full, with interest, five years ahead of schedule. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 8:22 am
(Todd Zywicki) Forbes has posted a reply by Joann Muller to the column I linked yesterday which asked whether GM was headed for bankruptcy again arguing that there are signs of hope. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 10:09 am
Vaccine holdouts have already taken legal action against employers requiring vaccination: Todd Zywicki, a law professor at George Mason University in Virginia who had recovered from Covid and has antibodies, recently fought his institution’s mandate and prevailed. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 1:43 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post and a forthcoming National Review article, co-blogger Todd Zywicki argues that repealing the Seventeenth Amendment would be an important step towards protecting federalism and limiting federal power. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 9:42 am
In a recent article, Money to Go: Auto Title Lending has an Important Role in the Financial Services Marketplace, Professor Todd Zywicki concludes that outlawing title loans would be bad for consumers, and that title loans are cheaper and better for consumers than their likely alternatives. [read post]
18 May 2012, 8:35 am
Todd Zywicki is seemingly obsessed with Elizabeth Warren and Brian Leiter and not, quite reasonably, me. [read post]
29 Apr 2007, 8:42 am
On the Volokh Conspiracy, Todd Zywicki writes to pooh-pooh the latest story about politicization in the Justice Department -- this one a Washington Post story noting that the DOJ will be returning to its old policy of having career attorneys rather than political appointees vetting applicants to the DOJ's honors and intern programs, and giving some back-story. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 5:13 pm
Todd Zywicki wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday that "The most important pro-consumer innovation in payment systems of the past two decades has been the general disappearance of annual fees on most credit cards. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 5:48 am
(Todd Zywicki) I’ve posted a new paper on SSRN, “The Economics and Regulation of Bank Overdraft Protection. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 11:10 am
(Todd Zywicki) Some of our readers might be interested in the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship. [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 6:54 am
(Todd Zywicki) A nominee for least-surprising business story of the year–payday lending booms as new credit card regulations and the credit crunch reduce access to credit cards, especially for higher-risk borrowers. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 6:10 am
(Todd Zywicki) From today’s WSJ, “Short-Term Lenders Seize the Day”:Tough times are good times for payday lenders and pawnshops. [read post]
30 May 2012, 10:06 am
(Todd Zywicki) As noted in the Boston Globe last week, it appears that Harvard may have run afoul of federal regulations in apparently identifying Elizabeth Warren as a Native American. [read post]
24 Jul 2011, 4:20 am
(Todd Zywicki) My colleague and TOTM blogger J.W. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 6:04 pm
(Todd Zywicki) Congratulations to my friend and GMU colleague Josh Wright, who has just been nominated to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 8:45 am
(Todd Zywicki) Some New Hampshire lawmakers want to protect their liberty-loving residents from inadvertently running afoul of Massachusetts law: Some New Hampshire lawmakers are backing a bill that would put up border signs warning drivers about to enter Massachusetts. [read post]
