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The contrarian addiction

…health aspects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda, which would require greater regulation of the nation’s food supply. But while the FDA’s role in food oversight is important, it is…

Train Drain

…takeover. Policy makers in both parties hoped that deregulation would help them avoid that scenario. Many were also influenced by sustained ideological attacks on regulation that were being mounted in that the…

The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…

Paul Volcker Feb.20

…to the problems in the market that we have. In this environment, regulation and supervision didn’t quite wither away, but it’s fair to say they lost support and lost potency,…

Eyes on Trade

…to have to read some truly mind-numbing trade law analyses of domestic regulation. For instance, have you ever really thought about whether electricity is a good or a service? Yesterday,…