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A senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute responds to accusations of hypocrisy
By Andrew Leonard
January 26, 2009
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauds the new administration's efforts to roll back Bush's last minute regulations. But they're fooling no one
By Andrew Leonard
January 22, 2009
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In 2005, economist Raghuram Rajan cast a jaundiced eye on credit derivatives. Larry Summers said Rajan was "misguided." Who looks silly now?
By Andrew Leonard
January 5, 2009
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Volkswagen short-sellers took a bath this week. Traders are blaming the German government for foul play
By Andrew Leonard
October 30, 2008
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Lehman, AIG, and the credit ratings agencies got their day in the harsh Congressional sun. Next up: Federal regulators
By Andrew Leonard
October 23, 2008
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The vote to bail out Wall Street marks the demise of deregulation's stranglehold over the American economy
By Andrew Leonard
October 3, 2008
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And Henry Paulson too, while we're at it. They made this mess, and they should pay for it. The New York Times has the evidence
By Andrew Leonard
October 3, 2008
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The struggle between the Rockefeller and Morgan families over banking laws in the 1930s offers a useful moral: Sometimes conspiracy theory is true.
By Andrew Leonard
September 19, 2008
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The Republican presidential candidate reinvents himself as a stern regulator. That's definitely a "change."
By Andrew Leonard
September 18, 2008
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Follow the trail between the ailing giant insurance company and McCain advisor Phil Gramm
By Andrew Leonard
September 16, 2008
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"What we've seen the last few days is nothing less than the final verdict on an economic philosophy that has completely failed"
By Andrew Leonard
September 16, 2008
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Guess who made sure the U.S. government wasn't watching when Wall Street went bonkers with credit derivatives.
By Andrew Leonard
May 29, 2008
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The secretary of agriculture instructs the rest of the world to pay more attention to scientific fact. Who is he kidding?
By Andrew Leonard
May 29, 2008
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His economic advisor, Phil Gramm, is a banking industry lobbyist working to shape mortgage reform legislation. Should we care? Isn't that what Republicans are supposed to do?
By Andrew Leonard
May 28, 2008
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Derivative traders have nothing to fear: The "Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure" makes that crystal-clear.
By Andrew Leonard
March 31, 2008
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The new economy needs new rules, declares the candidate. His timing could not be better.
By Andrew Leonard
March 27, 2008
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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?
By Andrew Leonard
March 24, 2008
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Don't you just love the smell of regulatory napalm in the morning?
By Andrew Leonard
March 21, 2008
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The verdict is in on 30 years of "radical economic deregulation." Guilty, guilty, guilty.
By Andrew Leonard
January 14, 2008
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A specter is haunting Washington -- the specter of well-regulated financial markets.
By Andrew Leonard
October 4, 2007
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A report from the International Monetary Fund acknowledges that the system could be tweaked to work better. But don't go too far!
By Andrew Leonard
September 24, 2007
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The candidate sets up a charity to compensate Katrina victims. Meanwhile, Barney Frank tackles the larger lessons of the housing bust.
By Andrew Leonard
September 14, 2007
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Self-regulation by scientists is not sufficient for a technology that is as potentially disruptive as synthetic biology
By Andrew Leonard
January 19, 2007
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An M.I.T. biological engineering professor rejects the ETC Group's critique
By Andrew Leonard
January 18, 2007
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A word of clarification from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
By Andrew Leonard
December 13, 2006