http://dir.salon.com/topics/regulation/?source=rss&aim=regulation en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/29/treasury_secretary_gramm/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/29/treasury_secretary_gramm/index.html?source=rss Guess who made sure the U.S. government wasn't watching when Wall Street went bonkers with credit derivatives. Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/29/science_based_regulation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/29/science_based_regulation/index.html?source=rss The secretary of agriculture instructs the rest of the world to pay more attention to scientific fact. Who is he kidding? Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/28/john_mccain_s_subprime_taint/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/28/john_mccain_s_subprime_taint/index.html?source=rss 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? Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/31/paulsons_bogus_plan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/31/paulsons_bogus_plan/index.html?source=rss Derivative traders have nothing to fear: The "Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure" makes that crystal-clear. Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/27/obama_s_economic_plan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/27/obama_s_economic_plan/index.html?source=rss The new economy needs new rules, declares the candidate. His timing could not be better. Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/24/clinton_s_foreclosure_plan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/24/clinton_s_foreclosure_plan/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/21/barney_frank_new_federal_reserve/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/21/barney_frank_new_federal_reserve/index.html?source=rss Don't you just love the smell of regulatory napalm in the morning? Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/01/14/barney_frank_on_the_warpath/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/01/14/barney_frank_on_the_warpath/index.html?source=rss The verdict is in on 30 years of "radical economic deregulation." Guilty, guilty, guilty. Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/04/barney_marx/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/04/barney_marx/index.html?source=rss A specter is haunting Washington -- the specter of well-regulated financial markets. Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/24/regulate_everything/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/24/regulate_everything/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/14/edwards_subprime_2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/14/edwards_subprime_2/index.html?source=rss The candidate sets up a charity to compensate Katrina victims. Meanwhile, Barney Frank tackles the larger lessons of the housing bust. Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/01/19/etc_responds_to_endy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/01/19/etc_responds_to_endy/index.html?source=rss Self-regulation by scientists is not sufficient for a technology that is as potentially disruptive as synthetic biology Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/01/18/drew_endy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/01/18/drew_endy/index.html?source=rss An M.I.T. biological engineering professor rejects the ETC Group's critique Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/12/13/berkeley_nano_2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/12/13/berkeley_nano_2/index.html?source=rss A word of clarification from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory By Katharine Mieszkowski Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/19/fishery_backlash/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/19/fishery_backlash/index.html?source=rss 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 Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/11/07/pitt_resigns/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/11/07/pitt_resigns/index.html?source=rss 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 Farhad Manjoo Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/05/gambling/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/05/gambling/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/25/levitt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/25/levitt/index.html?source=rss Former chairman of the SEC Arthur Levitt declares the time is ripe for fighting back against Wall Street. By Damien Cave Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/03/stiglitz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/03/stiglitz/index.html?source=rss Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy. By Andrew Leonard Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/06/27/markets_trust/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/06/27/markets_trust/index.html?source=rss 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 Damien Cave Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/26/cftc/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/26/cftc/index.html?source=rss 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 Jacques Leslie Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/02/01/water_texas/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/02/01/water_texas/index.html?source=rss How a water-grabbing scheme concocted by T. Boone Pickens is turning conservative Texans into a bunch of regulation-loving liberals. By Damien Cave Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/01/30/power_regulation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/01/30/power_regulation/index.html?source=rss 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 Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/01/06/online_drugs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/01/06/online_drugs/index.html?source=rss President Clinton proposes the regulation of online drug sales. By Dr. Jeff Drayer Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/1999/12/02/meaculpa/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/1999/12/02/meaculpa/index.html?source=rss Docs make mistakes, but proposed regulations to make them talk about it won't change that scary fact.