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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Government Regulation

June 4, 2012 | Forbes.com

Add Disability to Obama's Anti-Jobs Policies

The disability program is not the creation of the Obama administration, but Obama appointees have set and interpreted its policies for more than three years. Let’s examine their record...
May 29, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

The United States of Cartels

"Price stabilization” and “harmonization” are dangerous euphemisms for anti-growth policies...
May 17, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Banks Need More Capital, Not More Rules

The U.S. economy can't grow unless investors are free to finance risky assets...
May 15, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Losing Money Isn't a Crime

J.P. Morgan lost $2 billion. They'll learn from experience. Regulators rarely do...
May 8, 2012 | EconLog

Regulation Matters More than Taxes, According to Study

The power to tax is the power to destroy. That seems obvious. What may be less obvious is that the power to regulate is the power to destroy...
April 24, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

The Handicaps of the Disabilities Act

Let the government pay for wheelchair ramps and chairlifts...
April 23, 2012 | EconTalk

Cowen on Food

Tyler Cowen of George Mason U. and author of An Economist Gets Lunch, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about food, the economics of food, and his new book...
April 18, 2012 | Library of Economics and Liberty

Would Posner and Weyl Ban Gambing--and Tennis?

Robin Hanson reports on a popular article based on a paper by law and economics professors Eric Posner and Glen Weyl in which they advocate a kind of Food and Drug Administration for financial instruments...
April 10, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

My Primer for Obama

On the differences between Social Darwinism and laissez-faire economics...
March 29, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

The Dangers of an Interventionist Fed

A century of experience shows that rules lead to prosperity and discretion leads to trouble...