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9 Oct 2010, 8:00 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) The Center for Class Action Fairness has filed an objection to the proposed settlement in the Classmates.com class action: You may have been one of the millions of people to receive asettlement notice regarding a class action against Classmates.com; the settlement notice implied that class members would receive $9.5 million (though only $2-$3 per person, and that mostly in coupons) and the attorneys would ask for $1.3 million. [read post]
17 Jul 2010, 7:06 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Josh Wright discusses the concerns of behavioral economists about using and misusing behavioral economics to make policy. [read post]
1 May 2012, 2:29 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Mark Olson says that CFPB is raising additional concerns as it ramps up in practice: Two disturbing bits of recent information give us a taste of how the CFPB plans to operate. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 11:34 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Interesting column by James Grant on the short but severe post-WWI Depression of 1920–21: Our Great Recession ended 2½ years ago, according to the official cyclical timekeepers, but you wouldn’t know it by a glance at the news. [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 2:05 pm by Gary W. Becker
Becker A new article by Todd Zywicki for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University urges the CFPB to consider the “unintended consequences” of new debt collection regulations and conduct a careful cost-benefit analysis before imposing such regulations. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 12:34 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Josh Wright and I have a column in today’s Washington Times critiquing the economics of the Durbin interchange fees price control amendment. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 11:59 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Marty Robins has a nice column summing up the case against a foreclosure moratorium in light of the foreclosure documentation fiasco. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 2:42 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I’m pleased to read from FIRE that my law school alma mater UVA has repealed its speech code and now has a Green rating from FIRE. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 6:07 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I’ll be on the Doug Urbanski radio show today at about 2:30 talking about my column from the other day “The Truth About the Auto Bailouts. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 10:21 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) The video of the Federalist Society Lawyers’ Convention Panel on CFPB, “Will Consumers and the Economy Benefit from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 10:38 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I add my two cents to Forbes’s recognition of Joe Malchow and Michael Ellis in their list of 30 under 30 in the world of law and public policy (HT: Scott Johnson). [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 7:49 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) If you like Ayn Rand and want to introduce her to the kiddies, you might like John Blundell’s comic book about her life (I will just go ahead and supply the obligatory jokes by her detractors about how the term “comic book” is redundant). [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 8:46 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I did a post-oral argument podcast of the Stern v. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 6:12 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) If you are interested in learning more about public choice economics a great way to get introduced is by attending the annual Public Choice Outreach Seminar held at the George Mason Public Choice Center in Fairfax. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 11:39 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Josh Wright has the story of Microsoft’s apparent use of antitrust laws to protect itself from competition from Google. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 6:47 am by Eugene Volokh
Todd Zywicki blogged the original video here — here is Reynolds’ interview (simple free registration required). [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 4:15 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) The Mercatus Center has posted the video of the three panels from the interchange fee conference that was held last week. [read post]
27 Nov 2010, 11:21 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) C-Span has been running video of a few of the panels from the Stanford Constitutional Law Center Conference that I attended a few weeks ago. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 4:35 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I’ll be speaking to the University of Kentucky Federalist Society Student Chapter tomorrow on the mortgage crisis, tomorrow, Wednesday April 14 at noon. [read post]