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Elizabeth Kucinich: Mothers of Pure Food, Rebirthing a Movement

2013-05-10T13:51:52Z

This Mother's Day, let us remember mothers and women who understood the patriotic nature of standing up for wholesome food, of standing up for the health of young children who would become our future.

Read more: Organic Farming, Congress, Children, Mother's Day, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Regulation, Sustainable Agriculture, Fda, Food Politics, Healthy Eating, Healthy Food, Farming, Gmos, Factory Farming, Personal Health, Pure Food, Free Trade, Franklin Roosevelt, GMO Labeling, Mothers, Toxic Chemicals, Farm Bill, Senate, Women's Health, Health, Deregulation, Environment, Food, Food Safety, Food Borne Illness, Industrial Agriculture, Children's Health, Gmo, Food Bill, Politics News

Steven Conn: Three Cheers for Regulation!

2013-05-10T12:24:40Z

There are plenty of places around the globe where the private sector isn't burdened by regulation. Like Bangladesh, where under-regulated factory operations yield cheap clothing at the price of human life. Or China, where you can't ever be quite sure what you're eating and whether it will poison you.

Read more: Theodore Roosevelt, West Texas Explosion, China Food Supply, Economic-Conservatives, Regulation, Upton Sinclair, Progressive Movement, Alan Greenspan, Food and Drug Administration, China, Bangladesh Factory Collapse, Politics News

Thomas White: The Incentive for Regulators Not to Regulate

2013-05-08T16:54:04Z

The private sector isn't bad, nor is the SEC, or at least they don't have to be. Common sense reforms that strike at the heart of deleterious incentives are the only ways to cure the financial regulatory system of its toothless regulations and laughable oversight mechanisms.

Read more: Financial Crisis, Financial Regulation, Revolving Door, Regulation, Politics News

Olivier Blanchard: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy

2013-04-29T12:17:21Z

Rethinking and reforms are both taking place. But we still do not know the final destination, be it for the redefinition of monetary policy, or the contours of financial regulation, or the role of macroprudential tools.

Read more: Capital Flows, Debt, Olivier Blanchard, Finance, Macroprudential Policies, International Monetary Fund, Regulation, Monetary Policy, Financial Crisis, Imf, Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomics, Business News

Norman I. Silber: Unsafe at Any Range: Treat Guns Like the Consumer Products That They Are

2013-04-29T09:15:21Z

As we prepare for the next round of struggle, we should think of guns as the most dangerous products that consumers can buy in the American marketplace, and find ways to make them safer.

Read more: Design Defects, Gun Violence, Safety, Regulation, Unnecessary Deaths, Gun Control, Trigger Lock, Consumers, Gun Lobby, Consumer Reports, Product Safety, Atf, Guns, Politics News

Steven Cohen: Mike Bloomberg Is Right: We Need to Analyze Our Energy Choices

2013-04-29T10:21:02Z

While I am far less enthusiastic about Mayor Bloomberg's support for nuclear power, I agree that the discussion of nuclear energy needs to be stripped of emotion, and focused on an assessment of costs and benefits.

Read more: Energy, Regulation, Andrew Cuomo, Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Michael Bloomberg, New York City Energy, New York, New York City Green, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, New-York-Nuclear-Energy, Green News

Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore: Obama's Nominee for OIRA Director

2013-04-26T14:23:30Z

President Obama announced yesterday his selection of Howard Shelanski as the next Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. OIRA, although not widely known, reviews the regulations that are adopted by nearly all federal agencies.

Read more: Epa, Regulation, Congress, Omb, Oira, Barack Obama, Howard Shelanski, Obama Administration, Politics News

Kevin McDonough: What If They Blew Up a Small Town in the Heartland? (And Nobody Cared?)

2013-04-25T11:32:11Z

It may seem insensitive, at the very least, to evoke Ghostbusters while discussing a tragedy that claimed at least 15 lives. But it's worth thinking about how much our political/entertainment culture has ridiculed and feminized the impulse towards regulation and safety.

Read more: Regulation, Masculinity, West Texas Explosion, Pop Culture, Texas Explosion Media Coverage, Texas Explosion, West Texas Fertilizer Plant, Entertainment News

Project On Government Oversight: SEC Taps Wall Street Lawyer to Police Wall Street

2013-04-24T10:42:00Z

The appointment comes as no surprise because the agency typically draws regulators from the ranks of the regulated. But it does illustrate a significant problem: by relying so heavily on people with industry connections, the SEC can tangle itself in conflicts of interest.

Read more: JP Morgan Chase, Law, Lawyers, Financial Reform, Revolving Door, Regulation, Government, Mary Jo White, Politics, JP Morgan, Wall Street, Finance, SEC Revolving Door, Aol Time Warner, Sec, Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, News, Andrew Ceresney, Financial Regulation, Politics News

Eli Lehrer: An Agenda for Regulatory Reform: Think Big (and Small)

2013-04-17T08:50:21Z

Poorly thought-out government regulations can do tremendous harm. To date, the Republican Party's efforts against them have been heavy on bluster and light on action. By thinking bigger and thinking smaller, however, there's a good chance that the GOP could move forward with real regulatory reform.

Read more: Clean Air Act, Republican Party, Carbon Tax, War on Coal, Clean Water Act, Deregulation, Gop, Regulation, Endangered Species, Pollution, Air Pollution, Credit Unions, Politics News

Richard Leblanc: American Banks Should Split the Chair and CEO Roles

2013-04-16T19:04:03Z

The roles of a lead director and board chair are different. More and more American corporations are moving towards effective, non-executive chairs. Banks should not be dragging their feet.

Read more: Government, Regulation, Banks, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Corporate Governance, Financial Reform, Business News

Faisal Hoque: Innovating the Business of Healthcare

2013-04-16T14:42:42Z

Although some progressive healthcare providers have begun to transition to digitization, enabling faster and more complete access to patient data, we still have a long way to go toward achieving seamless process and business innovation in healthcare.

Read more: Medicade, Nurses, Regulation, Digital Health, Innovation, Information Technology, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Wellness, Digital Health Technology, Government, Politics, Information, Health, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Medicare, Health Information Technology, Technology, Health Care, Management, Healthy Living News

Bettina Elias Siegel: An Interview with Melanie Warner of Pandora's Lunchbox

2013-04-15T18:12:42Z

"On occasions when they ask why they can't have Cheetos, Froot Loops or yogurt in a tube I tell them it's because these things aren't real food. They taste good, but they don't help their bodies grow strong or give them big muscles."

Read more: Processed Food, Kraft, Fda, Kids, Melanie Warner, Regulation, Pandora's Lunchbox, Conagra, Chemical Additives, Petition, Book, Pepsico, Interview, Food Dyes, Personal Health, Books News

Paul Schwennesen: Fast Food Nation: A Citizen's Report

2013-04-15T12:52:09Z

If you were to believe the mythology du jour, McDonald's is nearing the final phase of its diabolical plan to capture the hearts and minds of you and ...

Read more: Government, Regulation, Health Care, Health, Freedom, Food, Fast Food, Mcdonalds, Taste News

Frank A. Weil: A Metaphoric Solution for Too Much of Everything

2013-04-11T17:53:27Z

Just about everyone in America agrees and feels that there is too much regulation everywhere -- local, state and federal. Just about everyone also fee...

Read more: Politics, Regulation, Twitter, Financial Regulation, Politics News

Ralph Nader: The Regulatory Nullification and the Cruelty of Big Business

2013-04-05T16:59:08Z

Despite negative public sentiment and the rise of the Occupy movement, the avarice on Wall Street arrogantly continues on. The big banks are now even bigger and more powerful than they were in 2008 when they were bailed out by the U.S. taxpayers.

Read more: Big Business, Deregulation, Regulation, Wall Street, Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail, Big Banks, Glass-Steagall, Business News

Irene Aldridge: The Risks of High-Frequency Trading

2013-03-29T09:21:52Z

The trading risks of HFT may decimate the HFT operation and at the same time greatly affect other market participants. Particularly, in selected markets, unchecked HFT may quickly incur considerable losses, well in excess of any tolerable limits.

Read more: High-Frequency Trading, Hft, Investments, Regulation, Risk Management, Markets, Business News

Steve Pociask: What Wireless Consumers Want

2013-03-22T17:23:39Z

With large majorities in the U.S. already enjoying 4G networks, European consumers have to wait until at least 2014 or 2015 to begin to see meaningful offerings in this space.

Read more: Wireless, Regulation, Broadband, Europe, Wireless Carriers, Wireless Data, Data, Wireless Marketplace, 4g, Technology News

Irene Aldridge: How Many High-Frequency Traders Are Out There?

2013-03-19T11:41:39Z

It's not a secret that many pension fund, mutual fund and hedge fund managers are concerned about high-frequency traders (HFTs). While their concerns are many, perhaps the biggest uncertainty involves the actual extent of HFT participation in the markets, their identities and their intent.

Read more: High-Frequency Trading, Investing, Markets, Regulation, Foreign Exchange, Equities, Futures, Financial Regulation, Business News

Wray Herbert: A Salvo in the Soda Wars

2013-03-12T10:21:11Z

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial ban on large, sugary drinks was slated to go into effect today. The regulations were intended to help curb runaway obesity rates. This is based on sound psychological science.

Read more: Unit-Bias, Public Policy, Soft Paternalism, Cognitive Psychology, Default Heuristic, Heuristics and Biases, Regulation, Obesity, Diet, Libertarianism, Status Quo Bias, Science News

Lisa Longo: Dirty Little Secrets

2013-03-05T15:03:38Z

Think about it, if oil and gas is really that good for us, why is the American Petroleum Institute and natural gas alliance spending millions to convince you?

Read more: Tar Sands, FRAC Act, Extraction, Economics, Fracking, Fossil Fuels, Tipping Point, Keystone, Regulation, Green News

Robert Scheer: Whiny Billionaires in Need of Sequestration

2013-03-05T03:34:29Z

It is brutally immoral that the proposed cuts in federal spending now be imposed on the victims of the meltdown rather than the perpetrators of their financial ruin.

Read more: Robert Scheer, Government, Greed, Sequestration Cuts, Wall Street, Money, Occupy Wall Street, Stephen Schwartzman, Regulation, Occupy, Sequester, Blackstone, Blackstone Group, Sequestration, Politics News

Eric K. Clemons: Say it Ain't so Joe, Again, and Again, and Again, and Again, and Again, and Again: The Never-Ending Saga of Misbehavior at Google, Part 6

2013-02-28T12:49:18Z

Google Privacy Counsel Claims: Wanting Privacy is Like Wanting Chivalry, and Only a Madman would Oppose Google

Google really needs a compliance off...

Read more: Google, Regulation, Online Privacy, Innovation, Privacy, Technology News

Robert Teitelman: Alan Blinder's After the Music Stopped

2013-02-28T13:52:09Z

Overall, he does a fine job explaining things, which is what you would expect. He adopts a tone like the most sociable guy at a cocktail party (meaning, he's not Krugman, who's the argumentative one in the corner), trying to explain, but doing so in an easygoing way that won't scare anyone off.

Read more: Krugman, Regulation, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Blinder, Economic Crisis, Book Reviews, After the Music Stopped, Paul Krugman, Alan Blinder After the Music Stopped, Alan Blinder, Books News

Eric K. Clemons: Say it Ain't So Joe, Again, and Again, and Again, and Again, and Again: The Never-Ending Saga of Misbehavior at Google Part 5

2013-02-27T11:37:55Z

This is a column I never expected to write and never wanted to write. It is part of the never-ending saga of corporate misbehavior, misrepresentation, and even lying at Google.

Read more: Google, Google Privacy, Regulation, Technology, App Store, Ftc, Privacy, Technology News