To date, more than 2, 300 mid-sized advisers have reportedly transitioned from federal to state regulation.
State regulation is definitely good for teenagers in Boston and for tipsy drivers in the assigned-risk pool.
This has led Congress to consider ending state regulation of securities entirely.
Cabazon Band of Mission Indians that tribes can conduct gaming on Native American lands unhindered by state regulation in states that allow gaming.
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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Private industry's technological advances, operating under state regulation, increased U.S. production last year at the fastest rate in the history of the domestic industry, which drilled its first commercial well in 1859.
If all that weren't bad enough, the neophytes overseeing public pension plans are not subject to comprehensive federal or state regulation or to the strictures that the Securities and Exchange Commission imposes on private sector money managers.
Some of Britain's largest newspapers sharply criticized plans for a new press regulator, accusing Prime Minister David Cameron of abandoning a promise to protect the press from state regulation when he realized he faced an embarrassing defeat in Parliament.
However, if you have been the victim of some extraordinarily low life behavior on the part of credit card operators, expect that the same sort of treatment would evolve out of removing state regulation of insurance companies from the equation.
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And speaking of state regulation, letting in foreign competition also provides an opportunity to correct one of the great flaws in the current system, which is that many states prevent competition even from American-owned companies who are from other states.
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Is it a state regulation issue?
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But more that, state regulation allows utilities to put a premium price for solar when they consider bids because solar can be most productive during the time of the day when demand for electricity to run, say, air conditioning , is also higher.
The remaining pelt supply comes the old-fashioned way: The U.S. has 150, 000-plus pro and part-time fur hunters, mostly in the Midwest and Northeast, who pursue the likes of muskrats, beavers, raccoons, bobcats and, to a lesser extent, foxes, coyotes and mink--all under strict state regulation.
Theoretically, budgeting would mean that adopting a new nanny-state regulation that may offer a minuscule improvement in safety would be directly weighed against the much greater and more cheaply achieved benefits of (just for example, there are loads of them) painting white lines down the middle of unmarked public country roads.
Let's let any insurer opt out of state regulation in favor of a federal charter. (I'll bet Allstate, Progressive and Geico would go federal in a heartbeat.) Relieved of 50-state paper-pushing burdens and free to pick off the good risks with price cuts, the federally chartered companies would be a formidable competitive threat.
Were the superb work the Guardian did to expose phone hacking to result in state supervised regulation of newspapers, the injustice would be grotesque.
Alas, the grade is not higher because electricity prices are primarily matters of state, not federal, regulation and state policies have a lot more to do with those prices than do federal policies.
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This is something that companies can initiate today, without waiting for federal, state or industry regulation.
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Debates will continue about state versus federal regulation, industry standards and the underlying facts in particular cases.
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There is no comprehensive state or federal regulation of these retirement behemoths.
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The industry described it as "a workable, practical way to swiftly deliver the Leveson recommendations... without any form of state-sponsored regulation that would endanger freedom of speech".
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London's mayor controls city transport, some parks, planning policy and a bit of policing, with little influence over regulation or state structures.
The central issue is whether federal regulation preempts state tort law.
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At the heart of the cases is the interpretation of a state law passed in 1981 that says regulation of the oil and gas industry rests solely with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which "supersedes" local laws and ordinances.
Second, it is hard to disentangle the effects of regulation from the state of the economy.
Richard Fisher, the president of the Dallas Fed, puts it down to his state's particularly effective regulation.
Within the OECD, it comes last or second-last for restrictive product-market regulation, excessive state control and barriers to entrepreneurship.
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Just as baffling to Americans is Europeans' toleration of high taxes, fussy regulation and indulgent state help for idlers and unfortunates.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that such a requirement by a state was unconstitutional as the regulation of interstate commerce was a power reserved to Congress.
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