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Are banks too big to jail?

…financial crime, it meant the embrace of a radical Too Big to Jail ideology, one that creates a moral hazard, encourages exactly the same kind of crimes and therefore makes…

Build it anyway, and some of them may come

…stadium, fire police Oakland was no different, laying off 200 police officers, despite the city having the fifth-highest crime rate in the country. However, the city chose to fire those…

Elena Kagan vs. Pat Lykos

…openly criticized Kagan for abandoning one rationale for restricting corporate campaign spending and then pummeled her again in his concurring opinion in the case, dismissing the government’s argument as ‘at…

The Necessary and Improper Clause?

…Constitution has been thought to bar the criminal justice system from incarcerating people in prisons, for “mental illness,” or even for mental illness, absent the commission of a crime, due…

Yglesias and Klein on notPaul Samuelson

crime. The poverty rate fell during the war on poverty, but the crime rate soared. This causes a violent reaction. I’d guess than anyone over 10 understands that race and…