In the Atlantic, Michael Mandel explains how the Federal Trade Commission’s looming antitrust settlement with the search giant shows that regulators can do their job without…
This week the FCC concluded that “broadband is not being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion” in its eighth annual “Broadband…
The FTC’s recent settlements with Google and Facebook raise an interesting question about how such regulatory run-ins can affect future innovation. The FTC fined Google…
Last month, Congress and the president passed major legislation (the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act) aimed at making it easier for start-ups and small…
The late economist Mancur Olson would have been a fan of Jonathan Ames. Ames is the creator of the HBO series Bored to Death as…
Public attitudes toward politics and government today resemble a game of limbo: how low can you go? Just when you think Americans’ confidence in their…
Imagine that you had an industry where customer satisfaction was increasing faster than any other part of the economy. Now imagine that the same industry…
As part of President Obama’s executive order on “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,” he called for agencies to conduct ”Retrospective Analyses of Existing Rules,” and…
As Republicans go on the attack about excessive regulation under the Obama Administration, it’s worth noting two things. First, the regulatory state started growing under…
With Congress about to enact a massive new tax package that may be the last attempt we make at any kind of fiscal stimulus anytime…