Regulation
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“Break Up the Banks”
“Big banks are bad for free markets. Far from being engines of free enterprise, they are conducive to what might be called ‘crony capitalism,’ ‘corporatism,’ or, in Jonah Goldberg’s provocative […]
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“Bailout Bonanza”
“Sen. Chris Dodd’s latest bill to fix the financial system is another failure. After months of negotiation, he’s produced a “reform” of the regulatory system that simply fails to deal […]
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“Placing our faith in economic oracles”
“One of the sadder categories in the history of human misfortunes is the list of those things that are obvious, but wrong. By definition, if something is obvious, most people […]
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“More Muscle to Fed”
“Mr. Dodd’s bill would allow the Fed to examine any bank-holding company with more than $50 billion in assets, and large financial companies that aren’t banks could be lassoed into […]
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Change Policy, Not Blame
The Obama administration thinks it has found the cure all for its economic woes. The solution: regulate, restrict and play God in the economy. (Not exactly a new strategy for […]
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Price “Stability” for Venezuela
In something of a reversal of the usual government policies to keep prices high, the government of Venezuela is going to great lengths to keep prices low, even in the […]
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Controls Wither
Research Reports – 07/16/1951 Book Review: National Transportation Policy by Charles L. Dearing and Wilfred Owen
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Whither Controls?
Research Reports – 07/09/1951 Book Review: “Aiding Undeveoped Areas Abroad” edited by Halford L. Hoskins, The Annals, March 1950