Liberty
The Problem of Too Many Laws
Ilya Shapiro writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the latest book from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and his former clerk Janie Nitze. [W]e can get to what…
Sarbanes–Oxley Act
United States law covering finance and accountability
Law & Public Safety
An In-depth Appraisal of Judge Brett Kavanaugh
In a recent piece called, “Committed to the Constitution,” Manhattan Institute scholar James Copland provides a detailed, and very favorable, evaluation of President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee: Few, if…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
JLF Senior Fellow Garland Tucker: Sarbanes-Oxley Is Suffocating Our Capital Markets
Writing at realclearmarkets.com, JLF Senior Fellow Garland Tucker alerts us to a looming problem of potentially huge consequences. Substantially more capital is raised today in the private markets than in…
Liberty
A more optimistic take on 2016
Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard admits the new year has opened with a “wall of uncertainty and gloom,” but his latest column highlights silver linings hiding behind the dark clouds…. China’s…
Regulation
A high-paid regulator operating in the shadows: What could go wrong?
Those who fear the federal government’s overregulation of industry will find little to like about an article in the latest Bloomberg Businessweek. The race is on to land one of…
Law & Public Safety
Stossel responds to Murray’s civil disobedience proposal
John Stossel‘s latest column at Human Events explores Charles Murray’s proposal for a new wave of civil disobedience. Charles Murray, already controversial for writing books on how welfare hurts the…
Liberty
Leef pens letter to politicians, then shares it with Forbes readers
George Leef’s latest Forbes column features an open letter to politicians interested in helping improve their constituents’ lives. Look folks, I know that when you say you want to do…
Liberty
Another honest American nailed by overreaching government officials
Every day we hear of new examples of government overreach to show how Kafkaesque the US is becoming. Consider the case Radley Balko discusses in this Washington Post piece, a…
Liberty
Bush and Obama — not much different
Today’s WSJ has a letter from a writer in North Carolina who understands that there isn’t a lot of difference between the big government conservatism we endured under Bush II…
Regulation
Former BB&T chief tackles the myth of the deregulated financial sector
If you believe that greedy, reckless bankers caused the financial crisis, you might want to spend some time with Cato Institute president and former BB&T chairman and CEO John Allison.…
Liberty
Gilder’s classic tract updated for an audience that needs it
As Ronald Reagan began his first term n the White House in 1981, George Gilder released Wealth and Poverty, a book that became one of the classic defenses of supply-side…
Regulation
Former politician on failed government regulation: Oops
Becky Quick shares in the latest Fortune magazine former Republican congressman Mike Oxley’s assessment of the long-term impact of the much-derided Sarbanes-Oxley legislation he co-authored with a Democratic senator a…