Everyone's Shaking Their Fists at Bank of America
But when punitive regulations and price controls are enacted such institutions will either get the money somewhere else or cut off services.
But when punitive regulations and price controls are enacted such institutions will either get the money somewhere else or cut off services.
Ku-ring-gai -- a suburban paradise in the inner rings of Sydney -- is just one neighborhood is facing extinction by the hands of overzealous city planners.
Passing any new gun control laws, however well-intentioned, is a slippery slope.
Having failed to eradicate drug use, and with current policy unsustainable, America needs another solution.
Although some of the nation's health care issues are complex and seem insoluble, others are relatively approachable. Many in this latter category fall within the province of the U.S. Surgeon General. But the incumbent is nowhere to be found. read »
President Obama should know better. Our constitutional-law-professor-in-chief has, once again, taken the government to unprecedented levels of secrecy while institutionalizing the perversions of our seemingly never-ending war-on-terror. On October 30th, the administration, without seeking Congressional authorization, proposed an executive rule that will license governmental agencies to issue bald-faced lies to the citizenry, making a mockery not only of the Freedom of Information Act, but of the[...] read »
I'm a little behind on posting this, but Lydia DePillis at Washington City Paper did a great profile a week or so ago of DC architect Eric Colbert, whose buildings' unifying features seems to be blandness. There are a lot of people out there who dismiss all modern architecture as boring out of hand, and in my opinion undeservedly, but in this case Lydia has a point. He gets a lot of work in DC, and answering the question of why his boring style is so pervasive in Washington, she discusses some of[...] read »
Earlier this year, the Cato Institute published a study of mine titled "Economic Self-Flagellation: How U.S. Antidumping Policy Subverts the National Export Initiative." The thrust of the paper is that most U.S. antidumping measures restrict and tax the importation of crucial raw materials and intermediate goods used by U.S. producers to make their own final goods. Accordingly, these antidumping measures -- imposed for the benefit of one or two or a few firms in less competitive upstream industries[...] read »
Greece’s problems are already old news, writes Clem Chambers, CEO of financial information site ADVFN.com, and author of “101 Ways to Pick Stock Market Winners”. A new chapter of the crisis has just begun and it is about Italy. read »
I'll tell you why I ask this probing question. I received an email this morning from a seemingly enlightened fellow quite conversant with the foibles of the futures trading business. He makes a quite convincing case for the ease by which MF Global might have grasped onto customers' cash to meet its own margin calls on trades going south or just to resolve trading it was doing in its own name. I'm now hearing from another expert that MF Global could use customers funds IN ANY WAY THEY LIKED> read »