From the monthly archives:

February 2010

February 2010

Thoughts on alternative lending

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on February 25, 2010 • View Comments

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Alternative lending forms have existed since lending began. Their specific models, practices and success may vary but all are flexible and individualized, providing opportunity to those left out of traditional lending.

A Glimpse Into the Future

by Gabriel Okolski on February 24, 2010 • View Comments

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Will online airfare predictors help give travelers a break on travel costs, or will they result in fewer deals overall?

Broadband as a Public Utility

by Jerry Ellig on February 23, 2010 • View Comments

In US history, imposing public utility regulation on an oligopoly has usually created either cartels or shortages. Why would public utility regulation of broadband be any different?

Competition and patience

by Jerry Brito on February 22, 2010 • View Comments

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Market processes–especially those surrounding new technology and distribution channels–can be less than instantaneous, but they have a way of ultimately conforming to economic reality.

Daniel H. Kahn on social intermediaries, identity, and code-backed norms

by Jerry Brito on February 22, 2010 • View Comments

 
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Daniel H. Kahn, a recent Harvard School of Law graduate and clerk on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, discusses social intermediaries and their potential to radically improve the social life of the Web. The discussion also turns to portable identities, code-backed norms, and trolling.

Peer-to-peer lending receives high ratings for low rates

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on February 19, 2010 • View Comments

Peer-to-peer lending companies, such as Prosper and Lending Club, show how alternative lending structures can be effective and sustainable.

Railroading Broadband?

by Jerry Ellig on February 18, 2010 • View Comments

Can broadband policymakers learn from more than 100 years of American experience with railroad regulation?

Jim Harper and Berin Szoka on privacy and Google Buzz

by Jerry Brito on February 16, 2010 • View Comments

 
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Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and Berin Szoka, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, discuss privacy and Google Buzz.

What’s Behind Google’s Broadband Plan?

by Gabriel Okolski on February 16, 2010 • View Comments

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Is Google’s high-speed broadband network plan an entrepreneurial, competitive foray into the market or an elaborate lobbying attempt to secure government funding in the future?

Glen Robinson on FCC Regulatory Paradigms Feb. 18

by Jerry Brito on February 16, 2010 • View Comments

Drawing on his distinguished career as a scholar and policy maker, Prof. Robinson will present three stories to illustrate salient features of FCC regulation at this free event.

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