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Regulation

Paulson's bogus plan to regulate the markets: Derivative traders have nothing to fear: The "Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure" makes that crystal-clear.; Andrew Leonard Mar 31, 2008
Obama's plan to change the economy: The new economy needs new rules, declares the candidate. His timing could not be better.; Andrew Leonard Mar 27, 2008
Hillary Clinton's plan to fix the economy: Clinton gave a good speech on her plans to address the nation's economic woes. But do we really need more help from Alan Greenspan?; Andrew Leonard Mar 24, 2008
Barney Frank's new, improved Federal Reserve: Don't you just love the smell of regulatory napalm in the morning?; Andrew Leonard Mar 21, 2008
Barney Frank on the regulation warpath: The verdict is in on 30 years of "radical economic deregulation." Guilty, guilty, guilty.; Andrew Leonard Jan 14, 2008
Barney Frank quotes Karl Marx: A specter is haunting Washington -- the specter of well-regulated financial markets.; Andrew Leonard Oct 4, 2007
A mixed message on subprime from the IMF: A report from the International Monetary Fund acknowledges that the system could be tweaked to work better. But don't go too far!; Andrew Leonard Sep 24, 2007
John Edwards ponies up the subprime cash: The candidate sets up a charity to compensate Katrina victims. Meanwhile, Barney Frank tackles the larger lessons of the housing bust.; Andrew Leonard Sep 14, 2007
ETC Group warns against "bio-error": Self-regulation by scientists is not sufficient for a technology that is as potentially disruptive as synthetic biology; Andrew Leonard Jan 19, 2007
Synthetic biologists: We're not irresponsible: An M.I.T. biological engineering professor rejects the ETC Group's critique; Andrew Leonard Jan 18, 2007
Nano-Berkeley, revisited: A word of clarification from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Andrew Leonard Dec 13, 2006
The fish are OK: Never mind the appalling state of the world's overfished oceans, say U.S. fishery managers. They're doing the best they can, and they don't need more regulation.; By Katharine Mieszkowski Jun 19, 2003
Pitt is history, but the foxes are still guarding the henhouse: So what if the most visible face of Bush's see-no-evil economic policies is gone? Corporate reform is further away than ever.; By Andrew Leonard Nov 7, 2002
Betting on Uncle Sam: Online gamblers are waiting for legislators to make their Wild West world a safer place to wager -- but the government keeps waffling.; By Farhad Manjoo Oct 5, 2002
Investors of the world, unite!: Former chairman of the SEC Arthur Levitt declares the time is ripe for fighting back against Wall Street.; By Farhad Manjoo Sep 25, 2002
The new gilded age and its discontents: Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy.; By Damien Cave Jul 3, 2002
The gang that couldn't loot straight: The fall of the '90s bubble's icons shows just why Americans would be crazy to trust their retirement money to the stock market.; By Andrew Leonard Jun 27, 2002
Foxes guarding the chicken coop: President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place.; By Damien Cave Jun 26, 2002
High noon at the Ogallala aquifer: How a water-grabbing scheme concocted by T. Boone Pickens is turning conservative Texans into a bunch of regulation-loving liberals.; By Jacques Leslie Feb 1, 2001
Power and the people: The electricity industry and the GOP blame NIMBY neighbors for the crisis. Critics say they're trying to turn out the lights on democracy.; By Damien Cave Jan 30, 2001
Prescription for change: President Clinton proposes the regulation of online drug sales.; By Damien Cave Jan 6, 2000
The culture of secrecy: Docs make mistakes, but proposed regulations to make them talk about it won't change that scary fact.; By Dr. Jeff Drayer Dec 2, 1999
Microsoft to Web sites: Behave!: Redmond says it will pull ads from sites that don't post strong privacy policies.; By Kaitlin Quistgaard Jun 24, 1999
Boon or boondoggle?: The E-Rate subsidizes Net access for schools and libraries -- and your telephone company wants to kill it.; By Nicholas Confessore Dec 16, 1998
Hands off that data -- I'm European!: In the transatlantic trade war that's brewing over data privacy rules, the U.S. pushes laissez-faire while the European Union embraces tough laws.; By Karlin Lillington Jul 7, 1998

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