Richard Posner

Judge: Allowing Citizens To Record Police In Public Violates Cops' Privacy

Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Michael Allison, Cook County States Attorney, Recording Police, Recording Cops, Police, Aclu Illinois, Chicago Police Department, Richard Posner, Tiawanda Moore, Illinois Eavesdropping, Anita Alvarez, Illinois Eavesdropping Law, Harvey Grossman, ACLU of Illinois, Chicago News

On Tuesday, a judge indicated that the American Civil Liberties Union's challenge of the harsh Illinois eavesdropping law banning the audio recording ...

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Is College Tuition Too Low?

nytimes.com | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Tuition Too Low, College Tuition, Richard Posner, Tuition, Public College Tuition, Gary Beck, College News

Gary Becker, the Nobel laureate economist, and Richard Posner, the federal judge and author, argued on their shared blog last week that tuition should...

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The Great Repression: The Crisis of Richard Posner

Jonathan Lipson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law and Economics, Finance, Economy, Financial Reform, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Richard Posner, Books News

There is nothing wrong with changing your mind, and perhaps Judge Posner should be lauded for doing so publicly. But breaking with the past is one thing. Burying it is another.

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Is Richard Posner Destroying the Chicago School of Economics?

Damien Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Posner, Capitalism, Economics, University of Chicago, Free Markets, Business News

Although Posner still walks the intellectually gutted halls of the University of Chicago, he has no reservation helping tear their remaining ruins down from within.

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A Guide To The Best Books On The Financial Crisis

Daily Intel | Moe Tkacik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Cohan, Barry Rithholtz, Patrick Robinson, Gillian Tett, Wall Street, Edmund Andrews, Charlie Gasparino, Economy, Books, Lawrence Mcdonald, Andrew Ross Sorkin, David Wessel, Financial Crisis, Richard Posner, David Faber, Duff Mcdonald, Business News

This week marks the official publication of the longest, most comprehensive, and highest-priced ($32.95!) work of Crisis Lit yet, New York Times repor...

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More Compelling Evidence That Free Market Capitalism Doesn't Work Without Government Regulation

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic, Milton Friedman, Employee Free Choice Act, Economy, President Obama, Richard Posner, Chicago School, Politics News

Now we have a leading University of Chicago economist making the key economics rationale for quick passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.

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If Not Health Care Reform...

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Behavioral Economics, Ben Bernanke, Jeb Hensarling, President Obama, Richard Posner, Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Warrenm, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Services Committee, Politics News

The Obama administration is currently losing its argument for the CFPA. It is suffering under some of the same criticisms as its health care reform plan: in particular, that choice will be limited by minimum regulatory standards.

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Judge Posner's Dangerous Thinking

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Richard Posner, Journalism, Media News

Judge Richard Posner wants to not just mold the new world to old laws, but to try to change the law to protect the old world and its incumbents from the new world and its innovators.

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Judge Richard Posner: We Need Counterpart To 9/11-Commission To Study Causes Of Financial Crisis

New York Times | RICHARD A. POSNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11 Commission Financial Crisis, Commission to Study Financial Crisis, Judge Richard Posner Financial Crisis, Posner Financial Crisis, Richard Posner, Home News

THE 88-page report issued by the Treasury Department last week proposes far-reaching changes in financial regulation. Unfortunately, the report is pre...

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Judge Richard Posner Questions His Free-Market Faith In "A Failure Of Capitalism"

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Posner on Financial Crisis, Richard Posner, Posner on Capitailsm, Richard A. Posner, Posner on Deregulation, Judge Posner, Business News

"If you're worried that lions are eating too many zebras, you don't say to the lions, 'You're eating too many zebras.' You have to build a fence aroun...

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Adversity and Comedy, the Venerable Studs

Rob Warden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Northwestern University, Richard Posner, University of Chicago, Studs Terkel, Studs Terkel Death, Chicago News

True to form, Studs could turn his malady into something of a comedy routine.

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