... risk management in many financial firms and serious deficiencies in government regulation of financial institutions and markets. But the breadth ... enacted sweeping new measures that would define financial regulation for decades. The creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance ... supervisors, market operations specialists, and accounting and legal experts. Periodic scenario analyses will be used to evaluate ...

... billion windfall for certain banks. Tax lawyers debated -- afterward -- whether there was legal authority for the Treasury to implement the change, but it was clear that no one would ... clear is that many individuals and their families are now unwillingly forced to sacrifice all they own on the alter of government regulation. While there may be ways to rationalize this to avoid government fault, the ...

... personal data. Regulation May Be Closer Than You Think I’ve worked in state government and have some understanding about how regulation gains momentum.  It is easy to see how the federal government may require that cookies default ... it, and tell the public policymakers why many of us find user tracking essential, and why this practice is ethical, legal, and in a purely private environment.

... Chairman Christopher Dodd on Tuesday called for sweeping new government powers to prevent another economic collapse, protect consumers ... federal regulations governing Wall Street to close legal loopholes and prevent the kind of fraud and abuse that ... to find material to write about) it has become clear to me that de-regulation and the inability to enforce existing regulations in the financial sector ...

... the chemical solvent GBL by year-end.  These legal highs are often more potent than the illicit drugs they're ... for legitimate purposes, they can fall between drug control and trade regulation." Illicit UK drug use The annual report shows that ... with the highest prevalence of use, behind Spain. Links: Government ban on legal highs Overview of drug laws in the UK ...

... World Report was "The Return of Big Government." It's prediction: "More taxes. More regulation. More spending"—regardless of who is elected as America's next president. The ... to voluntarily live by the laws of the land, more laws are made to plug legal loopholes and control criminal activity. Each new law requires additional funding for its ...

... 1930 period of high wealth concentration/high inequality. This, then, is the grand failure of government: due to the concentrations of power accumulated by those with asymmetric stakes in the game, ... much more to gain and lose from the political distribution of taxes and exemptions from regulation than non-Elites that they will fiercely deploy all their power and wealth to preserve and extend their ...

... for lower the drinking rate, is as compelling as it has ever been and that, in a time of great changes in the interaction between government and the governed, it would not be the worst thing in the world to have a serious national debate on the topic.& ... ; * Alison Stateman, Time: "If passed, the Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act (AB 390) would give California control of pot ...

We're used to the party pill industry and the government not seeing eye to eye, right? So what's all this with Matt Bowden welcoming moves by Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne to tighten the rules on the new generation of DMAA pills? The self-professed 'godfather of legal highs' explains why he's glad Dunne is preferring the approach of regulation to flat-out bans.

... Research Institute director Steve Allsop says too little is known about legal highs to consider them safe. ”Manufacturers make ... goods that may not even deliver the promised high. ”There is no regulation of this. I get emails from teachers who say kids have brought these drugs ... substances: BZP, GBL and Spice. The Government, which describes legal highs as ”an emerging threat, ...