Category Archives: Regulation

A shame out of California: the Bacon Bacon restaurant is being shut down by state regulators over its aroma, and it can’t even operate a food truck because it doesn’t have a permit for a kitchen.

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on a state House vote approving a scaled-back bill to study North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law. John Hood’s Daily Journal calls for a series of “Teachable Tuesdays” to discuss free speech in a constitutional republic.

Steven Greenhut helps Reason readers put the debates about the California and Texas economies in proper perspective. In California, Democrats control every state constitutional office and have an iron grip on the Legislature, where they always propose new regulations and seek new ways to secure additional tax revenues. In Texas, Republicans are dominant and Gov.Continue Reading

Sara Burrows reports for Carolina Journal Online on a bill that would limit N.C. cities’ ability to regulate the aesthetic appearance  of new homes. John Hood’s Daily Journal highlights the importance of the next two weeks of legislative debate.

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online about the debate over proposed certificate-of-need reforms for North Carolina. Becki Gray’s Daily Journal offers a progress report for the 2013 legislative session.

If you need yet more evidence that the Dodd-Frank financial regulations will do little to solve the finance-related problems associated with the Great Recession, here’s the opening exchange of a Money magazine interview with Stanford finance and economics professor Anat Admati. The Big Question: Are we at risk of another banking crisis? Oh, yes. Definitely.Continue Reading

Simon Johnson, professor of entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offers an alternative view in the pages of Bloomberg Businessweek. Since you wrote your book 13 Bankers [in 2010], the situation of the big banks hasn’t changed much, has it? If the banks were too big to fail in September 2008, they’re even moreContinue Reading

Thomas Woods likes to say, “Don’t just do something — stand there!” One suspects Woods might derive some pleasure in reading Bloomberg Businessweek‘s description of the dysfunctional Federal Election Commission. To say the FEC is broken is a parody of understatement. The agency’s structure—three Democratic commissioners and three Republicans, serving single six-year terms—means it oftenContinue Reading