Internet Freedom Swirling Around Drain as Dems, Reps Threaten Antitrust Action on Google, et al
Yesterday's hearings didn't clarify much except that Washington is in a mood to regulate tech giants.
Yesterday's hearings didn't clarify much except that Washington is in a mood to regulate tech giants.
Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, and 1970s Jerry Brown understood that government regulations hurt the little guy while enriching big-business incumbents.
And there's nothing the town can do to stop him.
Urban liberals are won over to libertarian policies, if not libertarian politics.
Zoning rules that severely restrict home construction cut off millions of poor people from jobs and affordable housing. The Minneapolis reform is the most extensive reduction in zoning achieved by any major American city in a long time.
The fine is likely unconstitutional, and the city's strong-arm tactics were blocked by a judge this week.
When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.
California's local officials are always in favor of more housing in general, but rarely support the individual projects that come before them.
Institute for Justice to city: Show probable cause, guys.
Senate Bill 50 would override restrictive local zoning laws to allow more housing construction near transit.
Lyndsey and Sharon Ballinger's lawsuit claims that Oakland's Uniform Relocation Ordinance is unconstitutional.
Censorship is when government limits speech, and tech firms are not monopolies. They are successful private businesses; others are free to compete with them.
After years of conflict and erratic enforcement, Los Angeles finally passes a formal plan to allow street vending.
A brief look at 50-year cost and quality trends in cars, houses, college and health care.
The factory stands on land seized in a taking that forcibly displaced over 4000 people, and attracted widespread widespread opposition. The lessons and legacy of the Poletown case remain relevant today.
A defense of Brett Kavanaugh's nominated replacement on the D.C. Circuit.
Cases in which a majority of the Court fell down on the job.
Restrictions on the supply of new housing are making California's cities increasingly unaffordable.
A toxic mix of bad insurance regulations and bad housing regulations ensure Golden State residents will continue to return to fire ravaged areas.
Trump has slowed new regulations to a trickle, but has largely failed to cut back the regulatory state.
California's licensing laws mean inmates can risk their lives for less than $2 per day, but can't earn a living after they get out of prison.
This problem should inspire sympathy, not scorn.
Prop 10 is dead, but support for rent control is alive and well in the Golden State.
A billionaire progressive CEO and a dead free-market economist walk into a bar.
Prop. 10 would give cities free reign to reimpose rent control.
A Wisconsin town is spending billions, seizing homes, and breaking state law to lure a Taiwanese company.
A city ordinance let officers harass women as part of a licensing inspection process. A judge ruled it unconstitutional.
Citizens of Coachella and Indio are fighting back against the private law firm that charged them for their own prosecutions.
Community members in the Mission District worry that the proposed market-rate development will spur gentrification.
New study explains why I can't convince people that terrorism is not worth worrying much about.
Leaving The Bay Area is a real estate brokerage that helps people decamp for cheaper, greener pastures.
On the upside, agency promises to review over-the-counter drug rules, approve more new drugs, and liberate French dressing.
The news network largely ignores the role of government restrictions on housing construction
"We could bring Foxconn to set up a factory in, I think, Minnesota," West said of the manufacturing plant being built in Wisconsin.
Despite the claims of NIMBY activists, cities can build their way out of a housing crunch
The family real-estate business was powered by subsidies and cheap government-backed loans.
Anita and Jim McHaney are suing to overturn "preposterous" regulations on cottage food production.
Economic freedom is good-whether in itself or because of the longevity, prosperity, and associated liberty it brings.
A positive but marginal reform to the Golden State's byzantine housing regulations
The American Housing and Economic Mobility Act would nearly double current federal housing spending.
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program is on the receiving end of yet another negative government watchdog report.