regulatory act implemented by the Obama administration after the 2008 financial crisis
John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog documents an interesting development in the American legal community. Not too many years ago, the bar was one of the pillars of the Republican…
Paul Kupiec writes at The Hill about an important lesson emerging from recent high-profile bank failures. While President Biden calls for tougher bank regulation, what the country really needs is…
Joseph Simonson of the Washington Free Beacon delivers a warning about an important Biden administration nomination. President Joe Biden’s nominee for the nation’s top banking regulator could dramatically change the…
Katherine Doyle of the Washington Examiner reports on unwelcoming comparisons between the Biden administration and a Democratic predecessor. Amid declining poll numbers and a stalled legislative agenda, President Joe Biden…
Peter Wallison asks at National Review Online why Congress continues to give away its constitutional powers. If he were alive today, James Madison would probably be most surprised and dismayed…
Tucker Higgins writes for CNBC.com about the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of a controversial federal agency dreamed up by Elizabeth Warren. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in…
Melissa Quinn reports for the Washington Examiner on a U.S. Supreme Court case with ties to Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren. The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a…
Economist John Cochrane starts a recent blogpost by quoting a comment about the cost of regulation that appeared at Marginal Revolution (another economics blog). Here are some excerpts: From my time in…
In a recent piece called, “Committed to the Constitution,” Manhattan Institute scholar James Copland provides a detailed, and very favorable, evaluation of President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee: Few, if…
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily take aim at the latest pronouncement from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants her fellow Democrats to take on what she calls the…
Writing at realclearmarkets.com, JLF Senior Fellow Garland Tucker alerts us to a looming problem of potentially huge consequences. Substantially more capital is raised today in the private markets than in…
The FTC's action against the Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board for using its powers to fix prices should be a wake-up call to North Carolina policymakers.