David Skeel

Dec 16, 2012

Regulatory Decadence and Dodd-Frank

Book Review
by Todd Zywicki / 0 Comments

Filed Under: CFPB, community banks, David Skeel, Dodd-Frank, Elizabeth Warren, The New Financial Deal, Too Big To Fail

Enacted swiftly in the wake of the financial crisis, the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform legislation contain a thicket of rules overhauling the entire American financial system, creating a bevy of new regulatory entities. But that is only …

Sep 28, 2012

Friday Roundup, September 28th

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by Richard Reinsch / 0 Comments

Filed Under: David Skeel, Hadley Arkes, Richard Fisher, Richard Hynes, Richard Reinsch, Ryszard Legutko, Ted Frank, When States Go Broke

Garett Jones at Econ Log matches unemployment benefits with a timeless beer song: 99 weeks of unemployment benefits on the wall, you take one down, spread it around, and it raises unemployment by how much?

Ted Frank directs our attention

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Aug 23, 2012

What Rule of Law?

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by Michael S. Greve / 2 Comments

Filed Under: Adrian Vermeule, David Skeel, Eric Posner

The redoubtable David Skeel had an op-ed in yesterdaty’s Wall Street Journal: “A Nation Adrift From the Rule of Law.” It’s a bone-chilling must-read. Along the way, amidst horror stories of extra-legal bailouts and prosecutions, Skeel takes issue with …