Universities in the Hot Seat, Biden “Seizes” Drug Patents, Banning Hedge Funds from Housing
Ep. 184 w/ Shownotes
Harvard, MIT, and UPenn’s presidents testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce last week, and the controversy over their statements regarding antisemitism on campuses has already led to UPenn president Liz Magill’s ouster. As calls intensify for Claudine Gay (Harvard) and Sally Kornbluth (MIT) to resign, Ravi and Rikki parse through the outrage over the hearings and assess the state of antisemitism on today’s college campuses.
Corporate investors have flooded the housing market in the past couple of years, but a sweeping new bill could halt Wall Street’s push into the single-family housing market. Is this a win for the progressive left, or will it end up harming more low-income families?
Lastly, the Biden administration announced its plan to seize the patents of costly medications from Big Pharma. Ravi and Rikki debate whether this new push to cut high drug prices is a good idea and if the administration has the legal standing to make this happen.
TIMESTAMPS
0:05 - Universities in the Hot Seat
21:57 - Banning Hedge Funds from Housing
34:25 - Biden “Seizes” Drug Patents
44:30 - Voicemail
Universities in the Hot Seat
Why Defenders of Harvard’s President Are Focused on Academic Freedom (New York Times, 12/11/23)
Harvard Alumni Association ‘unanimously and unequivocally’ supports Claudine Gay (CNN, 12/11/23)
Why did Liz Magill resign? Will Harvard President Claudine Gay step down? Here's what we know. (USA Today, 12/10/23)
The 4 key events that led to UPenn President Liz Magill’s resignation (CNN, 12/10/23)
Penn’s Leadership Resigns Amid Controversies Over Antisemitism (New York Times, 12/9/23)
Harvard’s President Should Resign (The Atlantic, 12/11/23)
Stefanik celebrates UPenn president’s resignation after targeting university heads (The Hill, 12/9/23)
Here's what all 8 Ivy League presidents have said about campus antisemitism (Business Insider, 12/11/23)
What the University Presidents Got Right and Wrong About Antisemitic Speech (New York Times, 12/10/23)
73% of Jewish college students report antisemitism on campus this school year: ADL (Axios, 11/29/23)
DEI Drives Campus Antisemitism (Wall Street Journal, 12/6/23)
Why Harvard and Penn Took Different Paths With Their Presidents (Wall Street Journal, 12/12/23)
There Is No Right to Bully and Harass (The Atlantic, 12/6/23)
The Universities That Don’t Understand Academic Freedom (The Atlantic, 12/8/23)
Biden “Seizes” Drug Patents
Biden administration asserts power to seize drug patents in move to slash high prices (CNBC, 12/7/23)
Biden Ambushes Pharma Patents (Wall Street Journal, 12/10/23)
Setting the record straight on the Bayh-Dole Act and March-in (Phrma, 5/10/23)
Biden Drug Patent Seizures Would Test Scope of Government Power (Bloomberg, 12/8/23)
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Lower Health Care and Prescription Drug Costs by Promoting Competition (White House, 12/7/23)
Biden proposal to seize drug patents slammed by GOP lawmakers and economists: ‘He is the dictator!’ (New York Post, 12/7/23)
10 drugs targeted for Medicare price negotiations as Biden pitches cost reductions (AP news, 8/29/23)
Where’s the Congressional Champion on Pharma Patent Abuses? (The American Prospect, 4/25/23)
Misguided Use of March-In Rights Will Harm Patients (Citizens Against Government Waste, 12/7/23)
Big Pharma’s Patent Abuses Are Fueling the Drug Pricing Crisis (Time, 2/24/23)
Following the Money: Untangling U.S. Prescription Drug Financing (American Progress, 10/12/23)
Banning Hedge Funds from Housing
Hedge Funds Have Invaded the Housing Market. A New Bill Would Ban Them. (VICE, 12/7/23)
Democrats Have a Plan to Shake Up the Housing Market (Newsweek, 12/8/23)
What Happens When Wall Street Buys Most of the Homes on Your Block? (New York Times, 9/16/23)
America’s Biggest Landlords Can’t Find Houses to Buy Either (Wall Street Journal, 9/20/23)
Study: Banning Investors From Buying Homes Leads to Higher Rents, More Gentrification (Reason, 6/19/23)
Meet the Latest Housing-Crisis Scapegoat (The Atlantic, 1/26/23)
People Are Organizing to Fight the Private Equity Firms Who Own Their Homes (VICE, 5/16/23)
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Real Estate Startup Buying Up Family Homes to Rent (VICE, 12/5/23)
Research Memo: New AFR Research Estimating Minimum Number of Private Equity-Owned Housing Units (Americans for Financial Reform, 7/28/23)
Investors Bought a Quarter of Homes Sold Last Year, Driving Up Rents (Stateline, 7/22/23)
Wall Street has purchased hundreds of thousands of single-family homes since the Great Recession. Here’s what that means for rental prices (CNBC, 2/21/23)
The ‘black’ hole in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s housing conspiracy theory (Washington Post, 11/30/23)
How neighborhoods fare when institutional investors buy single-family homes: A research roundup (Journalists Resource, 2/21/23)
A Private Equity Firm Might Be Your Next Landlord (New York Times, 8/15/23)
Keeping Up with the Blackstones: Institutional Investors and Gentrification (SSRN, 11/6/22)