What regulation are they trying to impact with -- by getting involved in certain Senate races?
This distorts the system, resulting in precisely the problem of select companies making profits while imposing costs on society that Mr Meltzer argues is at the core of what regulation should be designed to prevent.
What pension regulation and protection arrangements would an independent Scotland need for private sector pensions?
Uncertainty of what shape regulation will take has led numerous companies to delay final decisions on big capital-spending plans.
That is what the regulation achieves.
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It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that deposit insurance is what makes bank regulation necessary.
What made this regulation so bizarre, however, is that Congress specifically has exempted these account from taxation for the rather obvious reason that they want to attract this mobile capital to the American economy.
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That's what the financial regulation bill tries to stop and charges the federal regulators with -- even if the Wall Street banks get -- we all know they have to be able to have more leverage than the traditional community banks tend to want up in the Dakotas or Arkansas or anyplace else.
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Finally, it may try to design a new system of global regulation of finance, but it would first have to reach a consensus on what the principles of regulation should be, and whether these should override existing rules, such as the Basel Accords, which regulate banking.
What Berlin is prepared to do is to join London in reducing regulation and revisiting what can best be left to a national parliaments rather than decided at a European level.
Ask what is the statute or regulation that gives them the authority to shut down the stand, and what are the grounds for doing so.
"The statement from the Catholic Heads Association sets out what is patently obvious, that the best option is regulation - that is what I have spent my time in office trying to bring about, " she said.
Sensibly, it is calling for regulation to concentrate on what an institution does, not what it is called (that is, the basis of regulation should be activities, not entities).
Despite what we hear, regulation of the financial industry substantially increased over the last thirty years.
That we need to have different banking regulation from what we have had is, I think, agreed by pretty much everyone.
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There is also little regulation of what consumer genetics companies such as 23andMe and Pathway Genomics can and can't do with their data.
For all the shortcomings and failures of the old days of Wall Street regulation, what we have now is merely a reverse image replete with its own grievous shortcomings and failures.
Mr. Frank said he wanted to spend his remaining time in Congress protecting the Dodd-Frank financial regulation from what he called "right wing assaults, " and pushing for deficit reductions that include military spending cuts.
What is clear that regulation will need to be as cross-border and connected as the industry it is regulating, but that finding even a common set of standards that can still allow for national implementation will be difficult enough.
What ultimately doomed the regulation was its Swiss-cheese exemptions, tailored to fit state laws and political reality, that exempted alcoholic beverages, grocery stores, convenience chains, and even a carefully constructed class of drinks with more than half milk or certain milk substitutes which contain even more calories than soda.
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Or is it that macroeconomic policy has not allowed the creation of enough jobs for all, especially at the bottom of the ladder, leading to middle class anxiety which, combined with signaling effects, licensing regulation and what might be termed the Knowledge Economy Ideology, has created a credential arms race?
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Simply put, the mortgage debacle they describe was the result of too much regulation, and the only way to fix what they deem problematic is to reduce regulation to one line: if you fail, you die.
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And the lack of regulation resulted in what happened on Wall Street, and we ended up with the biggest crisis that we've ever seen.
Moreover the general public simply does not have the information and expertise to follow what is happening in financial regulation on a regular basis or to understand the implications of regulatory policies.
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Never mind that, to some extent, the wrongs resulted from what was ill-conceived regulation from the start--a health care system so convoluted and ripe for gaming that it makes the tax code look elegant.
What utter nonsense, and yet regulation of that nature is another knife in the heart of market portfolio theory.
But what about the argument that without regulation, taxpayers are at risk?
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The larger danger may lurk in what happens afterwards: litigation and regulation.
What is proposed here is independent regulation of the press organised by the press, with a statutory verification process to ensure that the required levels of independence and effectiveness are met by the system.
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