by Byron Schlomach | Sep 11, 2019 | Blog
Apparently, if you’re a legislator in Oklahoma and want to look like you’re doing something about an issue while not actually doing anything at all, you pass a bill to create a commission to study the issue. At least, that’s how the Oklahoma Occupational Licensing...
by Luke Tucker | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog
In a way, America at least partly owes its independence to the conviction that granting exclusive market privileges is an illegitimate function of government. In a free country, no-one has an exclusive right to a market over anyone else. Yet, two and a half centuries...
by Luke Tucker | Aug 20, 2019 | Research
Massage Therapy Licensure in Oklahoma Author Luke Tucker Abstract This paper describes Oklahoma’s 3-year-old massage therapist licensing requirements and concludes, once again, that Oklahoma needlessly requires the state’s permission before someone can...
by Mike Davis | Aug 7, 2019 | Research
Abstracting: Licensure and Regulatory Impacts in Oklahoma Authors Mike Davis, with statistical modeling and analysis by Byron Schlomach Abstract This paper shows how the licensing of abstracting (title searches made to facilitate real estate transactions) increases...
by Mike Davis | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog
In order to get a mortgage loan, you need title insurance. This protects both the buyer and the lender against clouded title – claims by people other than the seller that they own part or all of the property. Typically title insurers do some level of research on...
