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BobD
BobD posted a blog entry
Going Dutch – self-regulation and the problems of housing associations in the Netherlands
The Conservatives’ plans for social housing will re-open the debate over regulation: if the TSA is abolished, many in housing...
 
Preoccupations
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Telephone hacking: Cursory and complacent | Comment is free | The Guardian
"Think of the opprobrium heaped by the press on the regulators who slept while the banks overheated and crashed. And then read the report of the industry's own "regulator" into the recent developments concerning phone-hacking by...
 
Wintery Knight Blog
Wintery Knight Blog posted a blog entry
Democrats planning government regulation of more large companies
Story from Investor’s Business Daily.  (H/T ECM)Excerpt:Washington is quietly preparing a hostile takeover of Wall...
 
MartinStabe
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Guardian: Telephone hacking: Cursory and complacent
Guardian leader: "Since the information commissioner first reported on the widespread use of private investigators by journalists in 2006, the only bodies to have made a determined effort to find out what was going on have been the information...
 
MartinStabe
MartinStabe posted a blog entry
Guardian: Telephone hacking: Cursory and complacent
Guardian leader: "Since the information commissioner first reported on the widespread use of private investigators by...
 
Jay Dugger
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A Child Understands the Fall of the Wall, by David Henderson
As Bryan has mentioned, Monday, November 9 will be the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Chapter 3 of my book, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey, I tell that story and integrate it with my recollections of explaining my...
 
jacobgrier
jacobgrier posted a blog entry
A sinner’s governor
I don’t know much about Virginia Governor-elect Robert McDonnell, but I already like him far more than his paternalist...
 
MarkThomaTypePad
MarkThomaTypePad posted a blog entry
"The World Needs a New Financial Architecture"
George Soros says we need a new world order. After talking about the need for a new Bretton Woods conference to "establish new...
 
<em>basil99a</em>
basil99a posted a blog entry
Reed: Sorry About That Whole Ginormo CitiBank Thingie
“I’m sorry. These are people I love and care about. You could imagine emotionally it’s not easy to see what’s...
3 days ago The Big Picture | Topics: Bailouts, Regulation
 
Philip
Philip posted a blog entry
Too much disclosure can sometimes be bad
MOST people place their faith in the disclosure-based model which says that the more information financial advisers and...
 
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson posted a blog entry
‘People Have More to Fear from Governmental Responses to Economic Crisis than from Crisis Itself’
Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government
 
Robbie Clarken
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A Child Understands the Fall of the Wall, by David Henderson
As Bryan has mentioned, Monday, November 9 will be the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Chapter 3 of my book, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey, I tell that story and integrate it with my recollections of explaining my...
 
eProductsMart
eProductsMart posted a blog entry
Regulation of CDKN2A/B and Retinoblastoma genes in Xiphophorus melanoma
Product DescriptionThis digital document is a journal article from Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C, published...
4 days ago eProductsMart | Topics: eBooks, CDKN2A/B, genes, melanoma
 
Wevangti
Wevangti posted a blog entry
Seventh Circuit Criminal Case of the Week: If You Own a Gun, Don’t Steal Cable
In 2005, Kevin Schultz pled guilty to one count of trafficking in counterfeit telecommunications instruments.  His offense...
 
Worldofwarcraft M
Worldofwarcraft M posted a blog entry
NYT: GAPP and Ministry of Culture clashing over Chinese WoW regulation
The New York Times has brought its journalistic bear to the story earlier this week about China deciding not to approve WoW's...
 
BobD
BobD posted a blog entry
Catchup - the Conservatives and regulation of social housing
Life has been busy - mostly working with organisations in the overlap of the public, charitable and education sectors. This...
 
noah
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About NASAA
NASAA is the voice of state securities agencies responsible for efficient capital formation and grass-roots investor protection. Their fundamental mission is protecting consumers who purchase securities or investment advice, and their jurisdiction...
 
Robbie Clarken
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The new war on raw
Forget raw milk. The big new conflict is over raw oysters:In an effort to reduce cases of a rare, but potentially fatal, bacterial illness contracted from raw oysters, the FDA announced new rules this month that will require any oyster served from April...
 
Todd
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Can Citigroup Carry Its Own Weight? - Series - NYTimes.com
OVER the past 80 years, the United States government has engineered not one, not two, not three, but at least four rescues of the institution now known as Citigroup.
 
jacobgrier
jacobgrier posted a blog entry
The new war on raw
Forget raw milk. The big new conflict is over raw oysters:In an effort to reduce cases of a rare, but potentially fatal,...
 
toatley
toatley posted a blog entry
Another Downside of Limiting the Pay of Bankers
A while back Alex and I went around on whether limiting the pay of bankers would make the system more stable. Jeffrey Friedman...
5 days ago IPE at UNC | Topics: regulation
 
Pascal B
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Regulation Going Backwards
Here’s another one of those stories that will make your blood pressure boil: Instead of moving forward with broad regulatory protections of economics system, we are undoing effective regulations that protect investors.Floyd Norris has the details....
 
<em>basil99a</em>
basil99a posted a blog entry
Regulation Going Backwards
Here’s another one of those stories that will make your blood pressure boil: Instead of moving forward with broad...
5 days ago The Big Picture | Topics: Bailouts, Regulation
 
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson posted a blog entry
President Reagan & Sam Donaldson on Tearing Down the Wall – 20 Years Ago Monday
This is a nice reminder of the power of an honest, transparent, humble, and well-reasoned understanding of liberty.
 
Lacey Underall
Lacey Underall posted a blog entry
To Regulate or Not To Regulate….That is Not The Question
The question is ‘What kind of regulation?’Some opponents of electronic cigarettes have stated they believe those...
 
digitaltv
digitaltv posted a blog entry
South Africa approves temporary Mobile TV licence
After the Cabinet meeting on November 4, 2009, the South African government issued a statement to say that the proposal to...
 
noah
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FT.com / FT Trading Room - Congress budget office says OTC derivatives reform to cost $872m over four years
The staffing bonanza for regulators signals a new period of much closer oversight of traditionally opaque OTC markets.
 
urbanworkbench
urbanworkbench posted a blog entry
Flagging Doggy Doo
Public spaces should be respected and kept clean for the enjoyment of all; and around here, there is a group of people who are...
 
robinhanson
robinhanson posted a blog entry
FDA Blunders
Popping into the office on a recent Saturday, I overheard Alex Tabarrok practicing a talk, with fascinating details on FDA...
 
<em>basil99a</em>
basil99a posted a blog entry
Systemic Risk is All About Innovation and Incentives: Ed Kane
November 2, 2009“My dear sir, the Treasury order is popular with the people everywhere I have passed. But all the...
 
RiPPa
RiPPa posted a blog entry
Too Big to Fail: Welfare by Another Name
Yep, what's the deal with this "Too Big to Fail" doctrine? Yeah, why is the Obama administration intent on feeding these...
 
urbanworkbench
urbanworkbench posted a blog entry
The Smart Growth Manual
Smart Growth is slowly being recognized as having benefits outside of the usual talk of walkable neighbourhoods and...
 
NickAster
NickAster posted a blog entry
Who Regulates the Regulators? Government Stepping in on Executive Compensation for the Financial Industry
By John ComberiateAs we observe the anniversary of the financial crisis, taxpayers and executives have their eyes equally...
 
NickAster
NickAster posted a blog entry
Who Regulates the Regulators? Government Stepping in on Executive Compensation for the Financial Industry
By John ComberiateAs we observe the anniversary of the financial crisis, taxpayers and executives have their eyes equally...
 
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Tom Usher
Tom Usher posted a blog entry
WALL STREET, VIA BOUGHT-OFF CONGRESS, CENSORED EXPERT CRITIC CALLING FOR REGULATION OF TOXIC DERIVATIVES
How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill Silenced a Critic Calling for Greater Regulation of Derivatives From Democracy...
 
gPowell
gPowell posted a blog entry
Are Poker Affiliate Forums Still Valuable … or Obsolete?
Are affiliate forums dying, and if so, do they deserve to?
 
Wintery Knight Blog
Wintery Knight Blog posted a blog entry
Boeing builds new 787 plant in South Carolina to escape Washington Democrats
You can’t pass regulations and taxes on corporations and then expect them to supply residents of your state with jobs....
 
<em>chinawholesale15</em>
chinawholesale15 posted a blog entry
South Korean taxi drivers win right to watch TV in cabs, for now
You know, we've made plenty of jokes about the DMB mobile TV functionality found in seemingly every GPS unit released in South...
 
Bankwatch
Bankwatch posted a blog entry
On Bank Systemic Risk, International Integration and Capital Requirement | Turner Discussion Paper
There has been much talk of systemic risk since the financial crisis hit. I see it more as a crisis of banking and banking...
9 days ago The Bankwatch | Topics: UK, regulation, FSA, Lord Turner
 
snachodog
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Inspector General Admits SEC Pretty Much Sucks At Its Job [Sucky Government]
The SEC's inspector general has released a jailhouse interview in which his royal Ponziness, Bernie Madoff himself, explains that he got away with his scheme because the SEC basically sucks. From the NYT: In the interview, Mr. Madoff said that the...
 
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson posted a blog entry
Google, SAP, and Salesforce.com Could Save Credit Markets and Journalism
Saturday’s Barron’s had a pithy review of Ken Aulettta’s Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.To sum...
 
Hal Tse
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We Won’t Play Politics With GM…
…except when we do.  I think everyone pretty much assumed that Obama’s promise of treating GM like a real business and not as a political plaything was BS from the start, particularly when Congress started intervening in dealer-closure decisions...
 
Drakaal
Drakaal posted a blog entry
Where Should You Stand on Net Neutrality?
Net Neutrality is one of those names like Pro-Life or Pro-Choice that at first glance seems like you should be for it at first...
9 days ago XYHD.TV | Topics: Industry News, FCC, Net..., Regulation