Yet, for some reason, the brokerage industry believes government regulation is a bad idea.
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According to Cleland, it seems, any new regulation is a bad idea.
Toeman agrees with the idea of regulation, saying it could also help eliminate current problems caused by online operators who insist that all digital assets become their property when the Grim Reaper comes calling.
As with Katrina, there is a back story for government's dysfunction: It's a long saga involving the fervent renunciation of the idea of financial regulation, bought-and-paid-for tax favors, confusion about how globalization affects money markets, a general ignorance about the modern financial world and a stunning lack of common sense.
Slamming the brakes on financial institutions--through precipitate tightening of regulation--is a bad idea when the world economy is tumbling into deep recession.
Not only did Bair attempt to be a good steward of the banks under her FDIC protection, she endorses the idea of simple and effective regulation.
Anyway, the idea of spectrum-based regulation of telecom is outdated.
What this situation did stop was any real oversight or regulation of the industry, or any idea just exactly whether the games and payments were fair and worked as promised.
Every regulation had its birth as a worthy idea.
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These arguments center largely around the idea that current air pollution regulation is good enough as-is, and that any further restrictions are aimed at tackling environmental issues and climate change, both typically seen as luxuries in a down economy.
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Throughout the 20th century, battles over government regulation and property make little sense without some idea of the huge demographic changes that were transforming America.
Powell for some time has been trying to cultivate the idea that he wants to relax government regulation of the media and communications sector.
There's a bit of a queue of bills amended in the Lords building up, and they all have to be approved or rejected by the Commons... and the Defamation Bill's being held in a kind of parliamentary purgatory while alternative press regulation proposals, based on the Conservatives' preferred idea of a Royal Charter, are negotiated.
The survey showed the public were at odds with MPs, who have previously rejected the idea of authorised "tolerance zones" or regulation, said the magazine.
The idea of a black-and-white regulation sounds good, but any kind of litigation goes into the grey area because no one knows where the line really is.
Even assuming some kind of regulation is needed, directly mandating network neutrality is a bad idea.
This was one of the first attempts by a central bank to try out the big new idea of the postcrisis world: macro-prudential regulation.
Private capital has no idea what the future holds in terms of taxes, regulation, trade, deficits and the value of the dollar.
Again, even if you take the view that state regulation of health insurance is important, you can still support the idea of forcing health insurance companies to compete.
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Regardless, the two sides of the spectrum debate already like the idea, as it could both prevent complaints by carriers of ambush regulation as well as toughen up rules that critics say hands too large a slice of the airwaves to the incumbents.
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The prime minister earlier said relations between politicians and the media were "too close and unhealthy" but rejected the idea that he had made promises about government policies, for example on media regulation, in return for newspapers' support.
It was a particularly foolish idea for an economy that, thanks to decades of high oil prices and strict regulation, already boasts manufacturers that are among the most efficient in the world in carbon emissions per unit of production.
Meanwhile, Ms Bair has suggested that systemic regulation be done (or at least overseen) by a multi-agency council, an idea that is gaining traction even if others (including, again, Mr Dugan) worry that such supervision-by-committee is a recipe for inaction.
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