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9 Oct 2010, 7:24 am
(Todd Zywicki) This summer, shortly before Dodd-Frank was enacted, I offered several suggestions on how the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection could be made more consumer-friendly. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 9:13 am
(Todd Zywicki) As readers know, my concern about regulation of consumer credit and retail banking is that inefficient efforts to “protect” consumers by regulating prices and terms of credit can have severe unintended consequences by reducing access to higher-quality options (such as credit cards and debit cards) and push consumers to use less-preferred options involuntarily (such as payday lenders and check cashers). [read post]
3 May 2010, 4:52 am
(Todd Zywicki) When I was in college during the Reagan years the accepted wisdom on the limited government side of the aisle was that the only way to limit government spending was to first reduce government revenues. [read post]
28 Apr 2007, 3:40 pm
HIRING "SCANDALS" AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: Todd Zywicki is far from scandalized: Oh my goodness--a bust of James Madison in his very office! [read post]
21 May 2010, 2:04 pm
(Todd Zywicki) This column by Brian Johnson has been getting a great deal of attention since it was published Wednesday (as of today it is still the fifth most widely-shared piece on the Washington Times website). [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 11:03 am
(Todd Zywicki) Apparently King & Spalding’s new marketing strategy of “cut and run” when faced with politically correct pressure is not a universal success with its other clients: Virginia AG Ken Cucinelli has fired King & Spalding as counsel in matters for which the firm had been retained. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 1:08 pm
(Todd Zywicki) I’ve tended to side with the more hawkish Tea Party Republicans in the debt ceiling debate just because I always side with those who want to cut spending the most. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 10:33 am
(Todd Zywicki) Roy Poses at Health Care Renewal has been tracking an issue that has come to bother me as well–the increasing corporatization of the university. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 4:55 am
Todd Zywicki posts at the Volokh Conspiracy on the issue of professional licensing as a form of economic protectionism; the comment section quickly turns to the issue of attorney licensing. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 2:19 pm
The legal scholar amici include Steve Calabresi, James Ely, Steve Presser, and Volokh Conspiracy bloggers Jonathan Adler and Todd Zywicki, among others. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 10:50 am
(Todd Zywicki) A few final thoughts on the Durbin Amendment and interchange price controls. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 5:13 am
(Todd Zywicki) The Washington Post’s Ombudsman Andrew Alexander dedicated his column this week to the Post’s puzzling silence on the DOJ’s dismissal of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case over the past several months. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 4:08 am
(Todd Zywicki) Not reporting results, but that for the first time ever I was actually called last night by the Qunnipiac Poll. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 6:40 pm
Todd Zywicki and Joseph Adamson of George Mason have a new article at SSRN offering a conservative law-and-economics take on the subprime mortgage lending crisis. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 11:38 am
(Todd Zywicki) Speaking of amicus briefs, shortly before Christmas Josh Wright and I filed a brief in support of a petition for certiorari in an appeal from the 5th Circuit’s decision in Wine Country Gift Baskets.com v. [read post]
1 May 2012, 2:20 pm
(Todd Zywicki) One of the obvious questions prompted by the public recognition that Elizabeth Warren’s claimed Native American ancestry is what it takes for someone to avail themselves of the preferential treatment afforded to racial and cultural minorities in hiring–and in particular, can someone assert the identity if they are only 1/32 and have absolutely no cultural ties, such as tribal membership. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 2:07 pm
(Todd Zywicki) You just get your buddy the Secretary of the Treasury to give you insider information at the same time that he is telling the public something completely different. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 4:38 am
(Todd Zywicki) I just got a new smartphone. [read post]
20 May 2011, 8:46 am
(Todd Zywicki) One of the commenters on Jonathan’s post on the filibuster of Goodwin Liu links to an LA Times story where politicians suggest that Republicans are going to pay a political price for filibustering him. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 1:56 pm
(Ilya Somin) Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Barton Hinkle has a column surveying speech codes at Virginia public universities {HT: co-blogger Todd Zywicki]. [read post]
