New paper at JERP with Trevor Bopp and Robert Turick: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I have a new piece in @TheSlingUtah explaining why a 50-year mortgage, the new proposal from the White House (or Bill Pulte to be more specific), is a terrible idea. It doesn't create more home owners, just maybe more mortgages and more interest payments. www.thesling.org/a-50-year-mo...

Remarkable excerpt from the google remedies decision referring to the role of "market forces" in constraining a judicial remedy.

New: Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that. By @emilyschwing.bsky.social‬

Absolutely amazing sporting achievement. At age 26, Pogačar has already won the Tour de France four times and if he wins next year, he will still be younger than Armstrong* was in 1999.

Following @elienyc.bsky.social I Googled to check AI content about me. I have never said anything remotely resembling the attached.

New piece by @halsinger.bsky.social: the next Democratic campaign should focus on the replacement of lost government jobs and the creation of new government jobs, not government spending. Check it out! www.thesling.org/skip-the-spe...

For reference, the price was $13.99 last year. That’s a 43% price hike.

And here we go. Specialized has added a tariff surcharge on bikes, beginning with the newly-introduced mountain e-bike, Turbo Levo 4.

Oh hey, look what came in the mail today!

Excited to share that Duquesne Law Review has published an article by @basel.bsky.social and me, offering a clear and comprehensive interpretive framework for Section 7 of the Clayton Act. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My grandson is in AmericaCorp. Good deed doers all. They just received notification that AmeriCorp has been discontinued. They have to journey across states to Mississippi and be completely moved out in 48 hours as of this AM. I’m getting pretty tired of all the winning.

Maybe it’s past time to choose a women’s college basketball coaching or player icon to replace the Wooden Award for most outstanding women’s college basketball player. Just saying.

Hmmm. The NBA sez WNBA loses $. WNBA should offer its $105 mil share of next expansion fee (42% of $250mil) to buy out 42%. If NBA refuses, players assoc must demand to know why. www.sportico.com/leagues/bask...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Finally ready to announce my winter break project that some of you already know about: I've created a website to keep track of all of the court cases shaping college sports. Introducing the College Sports Litigation Tracker.

The DOJ has filed a statement of interest in opposition to the Proposed Settlement in the NCAA NIL litigation, noting the agreement enshrines for ten years "a facially anticompetitive restraint." (full statement here: www.justice.gov/atr/media/13...)

Using @tedtatos.bsky.social and @halsinger.bsky.social's words, college sports have "plantation dynamics." Every word of their article "Antitrust Anachronism" is amazing. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Amazing. For decades, the NCAA has fought NIL tooth and nail, with their economic "experts" offering myriad specious arguments. Now we have coaches acknowledging that "NIL opportunities are essential for our student athletes to help them succeed on and off the field."

Whatever one might think of UNC hiring Bill Belichick, he's likely going to increase the NIL pot available there, which is great news for the college athlete labor pool.

Just a reminder for college sports fans unhappy with the state of the transfer portal: the status quo exists because NCAA member schools refuse to recognize college athletes as employees.

Apropos of the college football parity "chaos" we see, I remember when the NCAA trotted out a bunch of highly-paid "expert economists" to prattle on how paying college athletes would hurt "competitive balance" in NCAA sports. So much nonsense.