Some deep and not so deep thoughts. Every once in a while a blogger just needs to turn their brain inside out and shake loose some of the random thoughts floating around in their head. Here is where I subject you to mine. The upside of encouraging people to eat MORE fried foods is more …
Exporting pollution, one factory at a time. The Heritage Foundation recently published an article on how climate regulations designed to put an end to coal fired electric plants will significantly harm U.S. manufacturing (EPA’s Climate Regulations Will Harm American Manufacturing). This got me thinking, if EPA regulations drive manufacturing offshore, is it possible that by …
Do U.S. EPA Regulations Actually Make Global Pollution Worse? Read More »
My public interest comment on the CFTC’s Concept Release on Risk Controls and System Safeguards for Automated Trading Environments is available here
My article in American Banker is available here
Marijuana in Alaska? As the ballot measure allowing citizens to vote on the legalization of recreational marijuana in the State of Alaska moves forward, I started to think about some possible changes we might see in our state if the measure passes. The following are the top 7 changes our state might see if recreational …
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It may not be possible for 5,000,000 people to get their insurance back. Over 5,000,000 people have lost their existing health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Even though they liked their health insurance, they were not able to keep it. These people then experienced significant sticker shock when they went to purchase health coverage …
ACA Market Distortions May Not Allow Cancelled Policies To Be Reissued Read More »
The Other Fiscal Cliff Resides In a Chart While running some queries on Google’s Ngram Viewer, a phrase-usage graphing tool searching over 5.2 million books in Google’s digital library, I came across a rather startling trend. When comparing the use of the terms “monetary policy” and “fiscal policy” I discovered that discussion of fiscal policy …
“There are studies that indicate that economic growth slows when public and private debt exceeds 260% to 275% of GDP. The U.S. hit the 260% level in 2000.” A recent paper by Hoisington Investment Management Company (available here) does an excellent job describing why the Federal Reserve is, and will continue to be, unsuccessful in …
Consumer choice trumps coercion every time. David Harsanvi at Reason.com argues why your judgement about which healthcare option is best for you is better than the collective judgement of 51.1% of the electorate. “Let me put it this way: There’s this Chinese restaurant near my house. It’s not the cleanest place, granted. And the folks …
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“…tax haven abusers force other Americans to shoulder their tax burden.” U.S. PIRG, an organization I don’t generally have much in common with, published an interesting and informative report on offshore corporate tax havens. While I don’t necessarily agree with the causes of the problem the author suggests, I agree with the effects. From U.S. …
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