Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

The Minimum Wage Increases = Job Loss Myth

Repeat after me: study after study shows that minimum wages increases don’t lead to job losses.

TTIP: We Were Right All Along

The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.

Lessons from Iceland, Where Offshore Created an Onshore Bubble Free of Rules and Regulations

In Iceland, the rapid growth of offshore, meaning tax evasion, along with harmful, even criminal, practices produced a massive boom and bust.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Put End to Mandatory Arbitration for Consumer Loans, Credit Cards

Ding, dong, the witch of mandatory arbitration is (on its way to being) dead.

“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States

“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.

Bill Black: Free Markets Mean Zero Economic Profit – or a 99% Profit Markup

How “free market” ideology produces companies like Valeant, which Warren Buffett’s partner Charlie Munger called a “sewer,” “corrupt,” and “criminal.”

Randy Wray: Progressives Don’t Let Friends Vote Neocon

If you take a hard look at Clinton’s neocon policies, it’s far from obvious that she’s a less dangerous Presidential pick than Trump.

So Which Eurobank is Having Dollar Funding Problems?

Which Eurobank has led the ECB to tap its dollar swap line with the Fed?

Has the Time Come to Consider Criminalising Tax Avoidance?

A rare call for getting tougher with a widely practiced white collar crime, tax avoidance.

Watch Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Phil Gramm Have a Love Fest Over Repeal of Glass Steagall

Watch Bill Clinton heart financiers in 1998 and try to take it back in 2013.

Should Banks Be Worried About Apple Pay?

Will Apple Pay eat retail payment systems?

Weak Wall Street Pay Reform Proposals May Have Some Unintended Positive Effects

A long-overdue plan to reform Wall Street pay is seriously flawed but could have a positive effect in spite of itself.

Why I (Belatedly) Blew the Whistle on the SEC’s Failure to Properly Investigate Goldman Sachs

SEC whistleblower Jim Kidney gives more detail about his experience on the shallow investigation of Goldman and the SEC’s failings generally,

UK’s Osborne Exempts Members of Parliament, Other “Politically Exposed Persons” From Money Laundering Oversight

The UK exempts Members of Parliament and other Special People from money laundering controls.