Easterbrook (Gregg, not Frank) Up a Creek
Here’s another reason—as if you needed it—as to why getting a reasonable bailout of the mortgage-backed securities market through Congress was so difficult. Below I reproduce an analysis from Gregg...
View ArticleThe Collected Works of Henry G. Manne
I’m delighted to report that the Liberty Fund has produced a three-volume collection of my dad’s oeuvre. Fred McChesney edits, Jon Macey writes a new biography and Henry Butler, Steve Bainbridge and...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform, Reconciliation, and the Role of the Senate: Some Wise...
Well, it looks like Congress is going to attempt to enact the Senate’s health care bill using the reconciliation process. President Obama certainly suggested as much in Thursday’s Health Care Summit,...
View ArticleThe America Invents Act, a First-to-Invent Patent System, and “Obama-Birther”...
About a month ago, I was asked by some friends about the shift from the first-to-invent patent system to a first-to-file patent system in the America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA). I was involved briefly...
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