| Get the latest policy analysis by Mercatus scholars. |
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| Hopeful News on Housing |
| Salim Furth | City Journal |
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| In 2019, states and municipalities across the nation passed legislation to address housing affordability. Supported by both sides of the aisle, this is a hopeful sign that housing deregulation is beginning to attract bipartisan support, at least at the state and local level. Learn about the states implementing reforms that will roll back regulation, strengthen homeowners rights, and more. |
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| Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism |
| Slavoj Žižek and Tyler Cowen | Conversations with Tyler |
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| This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why the The Handmaid’s Tale is “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta Thunberg, what Marx got right about the commodification of beliefs, his concerns about ecology and surveillance in communist states like China today, the reasons academia should maintain its ‘useless character,’ his beginnings as a Heideggerian, why he
is distrustful of liberal optimism, the “Fukuyama dilemma” we face, the importance of “empty manners,” and more. |
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| Export-Import Bank Makes an Unwelcome Return |
| Veronique de Rugy and Justin Leventhal | Morning Counsult |
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| Again, Congress has failed to pass an actual budget but has passed a massive spending package. The package includes a slew of corporate handouts, including the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. Long labelled a "crony" program, the Ex-Im Bank uses American tax dollars to financially back foreign companies to buy American goods and often serving well-connected corporate interests. Efforts to reauthorize the bank will set us back to 2014, the last year it was able to function fully before it was stripped of its quorum needed to support expensive deals. |
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