Tagged: regulation
Let’s Abstain from Mandatory Calorie Counts
I – perhaps ironically – don’t think this is healthy. Life is for living. We’re here for a short time, so make it a good time. In isolation, calorie counts are of limited relevance here.
Should the U.S. Copyright Office Have a Political Agenda?
Not being tied to political and election cycles has helped keep the U.S. Register of Copyrights an apolitical institution. Will H.R. 1695 change that?
Amazon More Than Doubles Quarterly Profits
We are going to need some new terminology for dominance in a business sector. Amazon, already the undisputed king of E-commerce, now commands 43 cents of every dollar spent online.
This American Life, Carmen Segarra, and the Federal Reserve Bank: an Episode TBTF?
Zic listens to secret recordings made by Federal Reserve regulator Carmen Segerra, and finds herself with more questions than answers.
Non-Contractual Employment
An employment lawyer entertains a very radical idea. Except it may already be real!
Under Siege: How Government Centralization and Expansion Puts Democracy in the Service of Special Interests
In its first full year of business in 1998, the 99 Cents Only store in the north Los Angeles city of Lancaster did over $5 million in sales. This was welcome news to the...
Craft Beer and the Human Economy
Tom Philpott observes that not all alcohol regulations need necessarily be a bad thing: It’s true that Carter’s move on behalf of home brewers helped push along the craft-brew revolution, as did the state-by-state...
Aging boomer trends
Here are a couple of interesting (and troubling) posts about what aging boomers are up to. First, the LA Times reports that, as predicted, the nation’s 77 million boomers are beginning to dump their...
Regulating the Crash
There was some very smart discussion in my Keynes vs. Hayek thread about the crash and whether or not previous efforts to deregulate the financial industry led to the 2008 crash. So my question...
Revolver
Peter Orszag’s new job at Citigroup is one of those under-discussed stories that makes me glad I read blogs. It also makes me depressed because I’m struggling to envision a plausible solution to the...
Why Fact-Checking Is Important
UPDATED …Even for a blogger. This morning I linked to a story suggesting that the EPA is running a contest to celebrate the wonders of the regulatory state. The EPA is in fact running...
Returning the House (and the President) to the People
In my recently concluded interview with Publius from ObsidianWings on the role of the administrative state, a central question was how citizens can better hold the executive and legislative branches accountable and prevent regulatory...
Publius Squared: The Regulatory State, Congress, and Democracy
As many people should know, Obsidian Wings is often a bastion of worthwhile discussion and debate combined with unapologetic opinion in the sea of hackery and straw men that is the political blogosphere. Over...
It’s About Structure, Not Volume
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has a good piece up that explores some of the same ground I explored in my self-critique of libertarianism, although he unfortunately does so without the assistance of Monty Python. Gobry’s central...
Correctly Political: Wealth Care, a Historical Note
~by jfxgillis Okay. So here’s the thing about the health care industry in the USA, especially the insurance sector. It stinks. Everyone knows it. Everyone feels it. We pay more for what we get, and we...
A Realistic Health Care Alternative Going Nowhere
[N/B: See below for a significant update/clarification] One of the criticisms levied at the alternative health care proposals discussed by E.D. and I over the last few weeks has been that these proposals, which...
