Today, @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and Jacob Udell explain why landlords nationwide are scrambling to repay their investors, and why confronting this growing financial distress is the first step toward solving our national housing nightmare.
Today, Mariano Féliz argues that Argentina’s recent debt negotiations have imposed a devastating cost on the country—intensifying labor exploitation and inflicting environmental harm. The result is a deepening crisis where debt sustainability threatens the very sustainability of life itself.
"the crisis is slow-moving and hard to document, as landlords who bet enormously on their buildings squeeze every corner of their balance sheet to meet the rates of profit they promised to their sophisticated investors, maintaining the bubble on the backs of easily-ignored tenants."
Great piece!
Good Analysis for Bad Times, an LPE Blog special.
The week in review: Sam Moyn and Jamelle Bouie respond to Beau Baumann's call for legislative supremacy, Mariano Féliz on Argentina’s debt sustainability, Ntina Tzvouala on dollar hegemony (x2), plus more!
Unable to realize enough profit from their portfolios to repay their investors, landlords are turning the screws on tenants in the form of rising rents and declining conditions.lpeproject.org
In Argentina's recent debt renegotiations with the IMF, the overriding goal has been to ensure the government can meet all future payment obligations. Yet the conditions imposed to achieve this aim…
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Sam Moyn and Jamelle Bouie on legislative supremacy, Mariano Féliz on how Argentina's debt sustainability, Ntina Tzvouala on dollar hegemony (x2), Ivana Isailović on the LPE of Social Reproduction in…
Today, @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and Jacob Udell explain why landlords nationwide are scrambling to repay their investors, and why confronting this growing financial distress is the first step toward solving our national housing nightmare.
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Oil crisis is a fitting moment to share that my paper with Doni Bloomfield, The Law and Economics of Resilience, is now live: wustllawreview.org/2026/03/25/t...
Today, @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and Jacob Udell explain why landlords nationwide are scrambling to repay their investors, and why confronting this growing financial distress is the first step toward solving our national housing nightmare.
"The re-emergence of progressive attitudes in American law schools in the last decade has been nothing short of spectacular. But how many, I wonder, are foul weather friends of the campaign against juristocracy, only aligned with these goals during an era of reactionary courts?"
Unable to realize enough profit from their portfolios to repay their investors, landlords are turning the screws on tenants in the form of rising rents and declining conditions.
This was my reaction as well. The legal and political claims involved here are more tightly bound than in most cases, given the history at issue. I thought Evan captured this dynamic well in his post on ye olde LPE Blog last year:
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Unable to realize enough profit from their portfolios to repay their investors, landlords are turning the screws on tenants in the form of rising rents and declining conditions.
Please come out to CUNY Law tomorrow night for the last session of the LPE NYC night school this year! We have an incredible line-up of speakers who are actively working to think through how social movements influence and support the agenda of the Mamdani Admin!!
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James Brandt
Explore the interplay of law and economics in enhancing corporate resilience against supply chain disruptions and external market pressures.
How do grassroots movements make policy change? And how do they hold elected officials accountable? This panel, the third in our ongoing LPE Night School series, turns to the relationship between…
The law profs are fighting whether to brief Trump v. Barbara: should we engage despite the evident falsity of the claim that birthright citizenship is limited. My answer is: of course, we should—even it the legal claim is specious—b/c what we are arguing about is the weight of the Second Founding.
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Today, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social co-signs @beaubaumann.bsky.social's call for legislative supremacy.
He wonders, however, whether liberals and progressives will be able to resist the siren song of juristocracy and presidentialism.
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Beau Baumann’s case for legislative supremacy offers a compelling vision for the left. However, branding it as a form of “constitutional politics” risks obscuring its deeper claim: that nothing…
