Regulation

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• We’re getting National Health Care, and we’re going to get it good and hard

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H. L. Mencken I’m tired of the health care debate. It’s not much of a debate anymore when the Republican lawmakers are arguing for socialism-lite and the Democrats are arguing for maximum strength ...
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• Skillings appeal: More salt in our Enron wounds

  
  CPA Success — Authority: 420
  Wanna make your blood boil? Think about this one for a second: A few short months from now, Jeffrey Skilling might go free. You remember Jeffrey Skilling. He ran a little company called Enron, whose implosion destroyed wealth, lives and dreams and (along with a couple of guys named Sarbanes and Oxley) ...
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• The solar panels that pay for themselves…

  
  Knowledge Problem — Authority: 616
  Michael Giberson From the Texas Energy and Environment Blog, reports that in New Mexico “ solar panels on homes can take as little as seven years to pay for themselves in energy savings .”  The post continues: That’s faster than Texas, where even in the best economic case, solar panels take at least a ...
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• WIRE WATCH: Fort Hood Memorial, Emanuel at Jewish Conference, Dodd Unveils Financial Bill, Clinton and Gingrich Talk Health Care, Kerry on Mideast Policy

  
  WSJ.com: Washington Wire — Authority: 779
  A roundup of the days notable events.
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• Smith on Banking Regulation

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 129
  Dr Hugh Goodacre , a teaching fellow at University College London, writes to the Financial Times (10 November) HERE on the subject of the “arbiter’s” role of the ‘invisible hand’ as presented earlier by Michael Rossman , who “praised” the “invisible hand” as “the arbiter of success and ...
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• Overstock.com Delays Filing of Q3 2009 10-Q Report Due to Material Disagreements Over Proper Accounting

  
  White Collar Fraud — Authority: 508
  Overstock.com delays Q3 2009 10-Q report Yesterday, Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) announced that it missed the Securities and Exchange Commission deadline for the filing its Q3 2009 financial report on time. The company disclosed: The registrant has been unable to complete its financial statements for the quarter ...
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• Martin Horwood counters bill on wind turbine distance limits

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 436
  MP Martin Horwood of Cheltenham stood up for wind energy to oppose the newly proposed bill that allows only wind turbines to be built 1.5 miles away from houses. Horwood believed that the bill could possibly have dreadful effects to the UK and would force the countryside to accept wind turbine projects that cannot be ...
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• Microsoft Launches SDK For Facebook – Giants Rock Together !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 439
  Yesterday, Microsoft has developed a software development kit for Facebook that lets developers create Facebook applications for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation. In order to expand the reach of Facebook in third party applications, Silverlight and WPF are more practical and easier platforms for the ...
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• Sullivan & Cromwell LLP managing partner Rodgin Cohen says that the origin of the financial crisis was actually unregulated mortgage bankers and brokers, and not the abolition of Glass-Steagall

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 137
  Sullivan & Cromwell LLP managing partner Rodgin Cohen says that one of the myths of the Great Recession is that the abolition of Glass-Steagall was responsible for the financial crisis. Cohen says the origin of the financial crisis was actually unregulated mortgage bankers and brokers. Original post blogged ...
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• A Squeeze on Customers Ahead of New Rules

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Senator Christopher J. Dodd at a hearing in September. He is pushing legislation that would freeze interest rates on existing balances until the new credit card law takes effect next year.
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• Arrested for filming the arrest of Julian Heicklen on federal property

  
  blog of bile — Authority: 118
  Code of Federal Regulations Title 41 Subpart C — Conduct on Federal Property Photographs for News, Advertising or Commercial Purposes § 102-74.420 What is the policy concerning photographs for news, advertising or commercial purposes? Except where security regulations, rules, orders, or directives ...
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• Poor Ford – They Thought They Were Operating in the Market

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 633
  The Washington Times, “Greedy Autoworkers,” editorializes the overwhelming rejection of the UAW’s proposed labor agreement.  Unlike GM and Chrysler, Ford elected to reject the bailout money and benefited from the consumer distrust of our newly nationalized auto sector.  Yet, Ford actually went into the black ...
  18 hours ago

• WA: County tackles bikini barista rules

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  Everett Herald : "One proposal would clarify lewd-conduct offenses by employees who are visible to the public while clad in skimpy attire such as lingerie or pasties. The other would push the more blatantly adult businesses into special adult-entertainment zones. The laws would apply only in unincorporated Snohomish ...
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• Play cards, beat anorexia?

  
  You Must Be Hungry — Authority: 91
  Play cards, beat anorexia? Of course not, but researchers at Stanford University are making progress with anorexia patients by having them perform tasks, including a card game, that have nothing to do with food, weight or body image. And thats the point. These are neutral topics, says Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick, ...
  19 hours ago

• Financial Regulations Chief Chides British Banks

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Executives failed to accept responsibility for the financial crisis and need to change their behavior, the head of the Financial Services Authority said.
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• More on California Tax-Services Model — William Voegeli Responds to Comments

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 765
  Last week I blogged about a very interesting article in the Manhattan Institute’s  City Journal by Claremont Review of Books contributing editor William Voegeli titled “The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy Services Paradigm” (Autumn 2009).  It compared the tax-services models of California and Texas.  VC ...
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• On walls and winning

  
  Shefaly Yogendra — Authority: 103
  Walls fascinate me. They signify territoriality – such as firewalls keeping desirable people or data in and keeping undesirables out, or even the Great Wall of China . They signify power and imbalance of power – such as Hadrian’s Wall of yore or the Israeli West Bank barrier of today. They are about ...
  20 hours ago

• BroadbandCensus.com’s Request For Assistance – And a Broadband Breakfast Club Invite

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 593
  Here’s something that may appeal to transparency enthusiasts, as well as to environmental skeptics… WASHINGTON, November 9, 2009 – BroadbandCensus.com has been investigating broadband stimulus projects and focusing on the preferred projects from the states. We still lack letters to the National ...
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• Bloomberg Joins Ranks Calling for FINRA Transparency

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 561
  Calls for increased transparency from Wall Street’s self-regulatory organization FINRA continue to mount. How so? None other than Bloomberg joins the ranks of Barrons , The New York Times , and Sense on Cents in calling on the courts to compel FINRA to release unredacted documents relating to the merger of ...
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• Obama’s 10-percent Stimulus Failure

  
  Liberally Conservative — Authority: 119
  Last week the Obama administration issued a report purporting to show that the President’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan had saved or created exactly 640,329 jobs. Such a precise number for such a fuzzy concept as jobs “saved or created” immediately raised doubts about the veracity of the report in any ...
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