Truth on the Market is pleased to announce its fourth blog symposium: The Law and Economics of Interchange Fees and Credit Card Markets For the uninitiated, the interchange fee is…

Well, he warned us.  But now that it’s here it sounds so incredible. Under the plan, which will be announced in the next few days by the Treasury Department, the…

David Evans (University of Chicago; University College of London) and I have posted to SSRN our draft, The Effect of the CFPA Act of 2009 on Consumer Credit. Here’s the…

Between the various power grabs and dubious regulatory proposals (each more dubious than the last!) from the likes of Geithner, Bernanke, Frank (.pdf), Dodd, etc., etc. you’d be excused for…

I noted last week that my colleague (and Volokh Conspirator) Todd Zywicki and I had written an essay, published in a Fin Reg 21 Symposium on the Consumer Financial Protection…

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I have said it before and I’ll say it again: All of this hand wringing over executive compensation seems to exist in a parallel world where corporate executives have no…

There has been a lot of talk recently about the possibility that lax antitrust gave rise to the financial crisis or that antitrust could be used as a proactive weapon…

Over at finreg21–a new site devoted to news, analysis and commentary on financial regulatory reform with which I am affiliated–I interview Bill Isaac, former Chairman of the FDIC (during the…