When [Alex] Tabarrok and his former grad student Nathan Goldschlag set out to measure how federal regulations impact business growth, they were sure they’d find proof that regulations were dragging down the economy. But they didn’t. No matter how they sliced the data, they could find no evidence that federal regulation was bad for business….
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Finra board candidate wants to keep organization from ‘antagonizing’ members
It is inevitable that organizations set up to act as watchdogs will be subverted into protectors from oversight by the regulated community, but this one may set a record for speed, cluelessness, and chutzpah. As Shakespeare said in “Measure for Measure,” We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear…