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Forbes and the "Self-Made" Label

…“self-made” label? On occasion, I’ve gone through the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans and marveled at who Forbes manages to decide qualifies as self-made. Case in point. Take Aubrey…

Off label drug pushers

…have to submit articles.” Off-label use of drugs is big business. According to The Wall Street Journal, “[FDA] is stepping into a high-stakes business issue, because off-label uses of prescription…

Mike sends a response to rdan on off-label drugs

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…

Some legislators saw the dilemma

…enacted their own versions of laws exposing downstream owners of loans to fines if they bought predatory loans. … The OCC is a somewhat conflicted agency: While its primary regulatory…

JOHN C. DUGAN…OCC carries on

…to already-responsible agencies to toughen the applicable standards and close any gaps in regulatory coverage. The OCC and the other prudential bank supervisors will rigorously apply them. But I remember…

Inadequate monitoring

The Washington Post carried a story on a Senate hearing on money laundering, one example being HSBC. The criticism was aimed at the OCC regulators who failed to pursue the…