California
state of the United States of America
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Policy Brief
Transmission Without Representation
The Senate permitting bill would vastly expand the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s power, letting unelected federal regulators site transmission lines over state, local and community objections, and could shift the cost of blue-state renewable mandates onto…
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Policy Brief
Rent-Pricing Bans Won’t Build Homes
Antitrust law already reaches landlords who coordinate rents through shared software; what has brought rents down is new housing, which a ban does not add.
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Op-Ed
What Does a Pizza Have to Do With a Loan?
I was reading about Linney’s Pizza v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a case involving a Kentucky pizza shop and the fees merchants pay on debit-card transactions, and it got me thinking about…
Originally published inDC Journal
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Op-Ed
California’s Crackdown on Consumer Credit Just Hit a Wall
The fight over bank-fintech partnerships is really a fight over price controls, preemption, and access to credit.
Originally published inDC Journal
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Op-Ed
‘For Heaven’s sake, stop it’ DIDMCA opt outs harm interstate commerce
State-level DIDMCA opt-outs threaten to fragment the national credit market.
Originally published inAmerican Banker
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Policy Brief
The Death Knell for Elizabeth Warren’s CFPB
Trump’s CFPB reset offers hope for reform, but state attorneys general are already building a fragmented and punitive new regulatory regime
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Policy Brief
Out of One, Many
Why banks, payment networks, merchant servicers, and financial firms will face a harder four years, and what to do about it.