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15 Nov 2011, 2:03 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Somehow I missed this when it happened a couple of weeks ago and I didn’t see any of my co-conspirators post on it. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 12:01 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) For many years a signature program of the GMU Law & Economics Center was its programs in Economics for Law Professors and Law for Economists. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 7:39 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) This is a cool new website on the history and philosophy of libertarianism. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 7:31 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) As I understand it, the simmering potential antitrust action against Google is premised on the idea that Google has market power in the search engine market that it exploits by biasing its search engine results in favor of its own content. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 11:38 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) From yesterday’s WSJ:Nan Terrie learned an expensive lesson last week about the importance of property rights. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 4:14 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I’ve been thinking the past couple of days about the parallels between price controls on debit card interchange fees and the investigations of Google after reading Eric Schmidt’s comments as reported by Gordon Crovitz in the WSJ:Mr. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 5:48 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I’ve posted a new paper on SSRN, “The Economics and Regulation of Bank Overdraft Protection. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 4:27 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) The wits at CEI have come up with another good one–you can print your own $5 “Durbin Dollars” and mail it to Senator Durbin to thank him for his price controls on debit card interchange fees and resulting new bank fees. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 9:17 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) According to a Bloomberg story:About 30 percent of U.S. consumers said they’d leave their banks over fees for using their debit cards, according to a survey by the Research Intelligence Group.About 43 percent said they’d switch to paying with cash or credit cards if their bank implemented charges; 13 percent said they’d pay the fee if it was “reasonable,” according to the survey released last week by the consulting and market-strategy… [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 8:12 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Jon Huntsman asks the right question in the WSJ today:More than three years after the crisis and the accompanying bailouts, the six largest American financial institutions are significantly bigger than they were before the crisis, having been encouraged to snap up Bear Stearns and other competitors at bargain prices. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 6:10 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) From today’s WSJ, “Short-Term Lenders Seize the Day”:Tough times are good times for payday lenders and pawnshops. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 2:21 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) The folks at NerdWallet have posted an interview they did with me recently on the impact of the Durbin Amendment. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 9:23 am
Todd Zywicki has an op-ed piece at Forbes.com that advocates rushing to a settlement regarding the robo-signing scandal. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 6:11 am by Ted Frank
So says Todd Zywicki at Forbes:[S]ome major AGs (led by California's Kamala Harris) are threatening to walk away from the settlement agreement because they think it is too lenient on the banks. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 5:48 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Coming up on November 10–11 will be a symposium hosted by the Washington & Lee Law Review on Regulation in the Fringe Economy. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 7:29 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) “It’s Time to Finalize the Robo-Signing Settlement” a new op-ed by yours truly on Forbes.com today. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 7:25 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Ralph Rossum has a new book coming out on the jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 4:30 am by Hal Singer
” As noted by Todd Zywicki in the Wall Street Journal, Litan’s prediction proved prescient. [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]
14 Oct 2011, 6:56 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) My colleague Frank Buckley thinks so. [read post]