Politics and Policy

The Trump administration has moved to restrict institutional investors’ home purchases and proposed allowing buyers to draw on retirement savings for down payments. We asked Professor Cameron LaPoint, who studies housing finance, whether these policies are likely to make housing more affordable—or to push prices higher.

The oil industry is in the midst of a supply gut, producing millions of barrels per day above demand. Prices are low and major companies in the sector are contracting. According to Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, these economic facts undercut President Trump’s intimations of an oil bonanza in Venezuela.

Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld provides CEOs with advice and factors to consider in the wake of the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

Russia’s bluster at the negotiating table masks an economy hollowed out by war and sanctions, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Tymofiy Mylovanov of the Kyiv School of Economics, and co-author Stephen Henriques.

We asked Yale SOM’s Zoe Chance, an expert on consumer behavior and persuasion, what makes boycotts effective and how companies should respond.

Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that a new comprehensive housing law gives Connecticut towns a clearer, more flexible framework for developing housing growth plans.

How do political differences affect workplace performance? A study of professional golfers, co-authored by Yale SOM’s Balázs Kovács, suggests that working alongside someone of the opposite political orientation may dampen the ability to execute tasks successfully.

Part of resolving the political redistricting stalemate, writes Professor Jamie Tucker-Foltz, is creating congressional maps that align with human intuition about fairness.

President Donald Trump said recently that he had ordered the return of U.S. nuclear testing, prompting a warning from Russia. We asked Professor Paul Bracken what test explosions could mean.