Archive for January 30th, 2007

Regulation vs Legislation

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Last week, the president signed an executive order that changes the way that regulations are made. The order establishes a new standard for creating regulations: the agency must show that the market has failed to correct the problem. Most consumer advocates are upset by the move which will make it harder to regulate business that [...]

Memo to the world…

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

A memo to the world… I don’t care about your hierarchical BS.  I know that hierarchy seems to be important to people because we have kept it around from the time we roamed as east African plains apes (h/t Brad DeLong) to today’s corporations, but frankly, I don’t care.  The fact that a person occupies [...]