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Posts Tagged ‘regulation’

• In the Green Room: Rep. Camp

  Posted July 28th, 2009 at 3:20pm in Health Care with 5 comments

  Rep. Dave Camp came to Heritage’s weekly bloggers briefing today. He made specific recommendations for health care reform that leaves the individual in charge and actually reduces costs without raising taxes. “80% of Americans have health care, and they don’t want to see it change in a fundamental way,” he said, adding that reform should include 3 [...] More

• Cheerios: Available at a Pharmacy Near You?

  Posted July 3rd, 2009 at 7:19am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 2 comments

  Should Cheerios be regulated as a drug? That’s what the FDA suggested last month in a letter to the breakfast cereal’s maker, General Mills. The issue originated with a claim on cereal boxes that says Cheerios will “lower your cholesterol 4% in six weeks.” The FDA said in a letter to General Mills that the company’s [...] More

• An Inconvenient Voice: Dr. Alan Carlin

  Posted June 29th, 2009 at 2:56pm in Energy and Environment with 72 comments

  Ever hear of Alan Carlin? Probably not, and that is the way the Obama Administration wants to keep it. Dr. Carlin is an Environmental Protection Agency veteran who recently wrote a damaging report, warning that the science behind climate change was questionable at best, and that we shouldn’t pass laws that will hurt American families [...] More

• What Next: Bible Study Edition

  Posted May 28th, 2009 at 5:28pm in Family and Religion, Ongoing Priorities with 31 comments

  Do you host a regular get-together with friends to watch your favorite college sports team? (Go Jackets!) What about a ladies dessert pot-luck or a monthly poker night with a small group of co-workers? If you are in the habit of such gatherings, you may want to hear how your rights to host friends at your house are [...] More

• U.S. Tax Code, Bernie Madoff Style

  Posted April 15th, 2009 at 5:09pm in Ongoing Priorities with 11 comments

  From Monday’s Wall Street Journal:  If you thought Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was bad, wait until you hear about the inverted pyramid scheme the federal government is working on. While Mr. Madoff preyed on people who trusted him with their money, the federal government has everyone’s money, and the implications of its actions are worse. David GothardPicture [...] More

• Death By DMV

  Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 2:31pm in Ongoing Priorities with 6 comments

  One of today’s great Chicago architects likes to critique buildings by asking: “If this is the answer, what was the question?” It cuts to the chase. Imagine standing before this…thing and applying the above critique. The question becomes: “Can you build me a poorly lit maximum-security prison tower to live in? Absurd, right? Just like the [...] More

• Morning Bell: The G20 Threat to Economic Recovery

  Posted April 1st, 2009 at 8:10am in American Leadership, First Principles, Rule of Law with 26 comments

  The official G-20 talks that President Barack Obama is in London for today do not begin until tomorrow. But outlines of the deal President Obama and other world leaders will agree to have been noticeable for weeks … and it is not good news for the American people. From the beginning, the Obama Administration and European Union leaders [...] More

• The Unregulated Bailing Out the Regulated

  Posted March 25th, 2009 at 10:21am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 4 comments

  Great observation by Michael Barone on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s latest bank bailout plan: Democrats like Barack Obama and Barney Frank, at least on the campaign trail or in sound bites, have portrayed the financial crisis as the product of deregulation. The solution, they say, is more regulation. … My American Enterprise colleague Peter Wallison has argued powerfully [...] More

• Regulators, Risk and Roubini

  Posted March 23rd, 2009 at 12:31pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 1 comments

  Via Greg Mankiw, Bentley University professor Scott Sumner writes on efficient-markets hypothesis (EMH): So the anti-EMH argument for regulation must be based on the following: bankers are irrational and make lots of foolish loans. Regulators are rational and can see that these loans are too risky, and can protect bankers from hurting themselves. At a theoretical [...] More

• Moral Hazards are Not Something to Toy With

  Posted March 6th, 2009 at 10:51am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 8 comments

  The recently enforced Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act created many unintended consequences for toy manufacturers and oddly enough, even for your local library, but most of which, blinded parents’ sense of caution when it comes to buying toys for their children. This regulation, which went into effect on February 10, 2009, mandates that all products targeted [...] More