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18 Nov 2011, 12:10 pm
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16 Nov 2011, 1:00 pm
(Todd Zywicki) I acknowledge from the comments that many readers were less impressed than I was with Peter Wallison’s criticism of the concept of “systemic risk” that I posted a couple of weeks back (although I didn’t see anything then or since that has led me to question Peter’s conclusion that the problem was not interconnectedness but common shock, as Peter argues). [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 6:21 am
Todd Zywicki also weighs in on C-SPAN’s plea at the Volokh Conspiracy. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 2:10 pm
(Todd Zywicki) The letter is here. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 2:03 pm
(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
(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
(Todd Zywicki) This is a cool new website on the history and philosophy of libertarianism. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 7:31 am
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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
(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
(Todd Zywicki) “It’s Time to Finalize the Robo-Signing Settlement” a new op-ed by yours truly on Forbes.com today. [read post]