As the COVID-19 lockdown continues — with no end in sight for many of us living in the Northeast —…
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Go for a stroll around an upscale urban neighborhood — say New York’s upper West Side, or Washington, D.C.’s Logan…
Local governments should beware that when they pass exorbitant minimum wage laws, they might be giving up a lot in…
Staffers working for the city of Raleigh, North Carolina needed a place to stay while staying in Austin, Texas for…
The monopoly power of Silicon Valley remains a massive public policy issue. Nowhere was this clearer than in the recent…
In an episode of the popular television show South Park, a fictionalized Steve Jobs forces a group of the show’s…
For good reason, millions of people who have taken an Uber, shopped on Etsy, found a professional’s help on Thumbtack, or booked a place to stay through Airbnb love the sharing economy. These services, and countless others like eBay, TaskRabbit, Rent the Runway, and GoFundMe have a common theme — they connect people though online platforms. Often, the sharing economy enables transactions that used to be infeasible, time consuming, or cost prohibitive.
Recent terror attacks in Manchester and London have shocked the conscience both in the U.K. itself and abroad. Fear is running…