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At a recent Senate hearing, climate experts claimed it would cost $50 trillion to make the country carbon neutral—and then admitted that it may not even work. Though the U.S.…
John Siciliano of the Washington Examiner reports concerns that the federal government’s recent financial regulations could raise your energy costs. The Commodity Futures and Trading Commission, the nation’s lead financial…
Regular readers in this forum might remember that a federal agency dubbed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has generated plenty of concerns. Now Bloomberg Businessweek informs us that CFTC’s outgoing…
… more money, of course! That’s the argument made in a recent Bloomberg Businessweek article about the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, “the federal agency assigned to oversee the swaps…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek features an editorial with the utterly unsurprising headline “The Red Tape That’s Choking Financial Reform.” It’s been more than three years since the Dodd-Frank financial reform…
Jim McTague of Barron’s notes in his latest column that some recent improvements in the American economy have had little political impact, thanks in large part to government overreach. You…
People heading to Raleigh’s Sisters’ Garden at noon for the latest John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon will have a chance to hear Timothy P. Carney of the Washington Examiner offer…
When I think of Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales, only one place comes to mind – the U.S. Government Bookstore. To help you kick off your holiday shopping this season, the…
Joe Klein essentially makes that argument in his latest TIME column: The financial police we have, agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission…
Some strange info trickling out over at McClatchy Watch to the effect that McClatchy’s pension fund lost some $77m. in the Westridge Capital Management investment fraud case. That case exploded…
So reports The Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio in a story about a campaign to put the text of congressional bills online for at least 72 hours before any vote is…
The Democrat-controlled Congress and the Obama administration seem bent on eliminating all checks and balances from government. For those educated in public schools, those are the things that keep us…