Blog Doha Round Stalled Again By: Ryan Young 07/29/2008 Disagreements over farm subsidies have caused the current round of WTO negotiations to collapse. Developing countries are upset that subsidized farmers from rich countries…
Blog A Moderate Software Patent Policy By: Alex Harris 07/29/2008 Ars has a good discussion of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s recent switch in policy towards software patents. Before, the USPTO would issue…
Blog ARMIS: Old Rules in a New Economy By: Alex Harris 07/29/2008 Last year, AT&T submitted to the FCC a petition for forbearance from some old reporting requirements that were designed back in the days of…
Blog XM-Sirius is Finally Approved By: Alex Harris 07/29/2008 I reported last Thursday that the FCC was set to approve the long-ignored XM-Sirius merger. Yesterday, it finally came through… but hampered by…
Blog FCC Delays as Long as Possible, Keeps Price Controls By: Alex Harris 07/29/2008 A year and 90 days ago, Qwest gave the FCC a request for forbearance from complying with some outdated price controls. The FCC had a…
Blog It’s not chicken feed . . . but it is By: Fran Smith 07/28/2008 With a lot of attention focused on the unintended consequences of ethanol policy in raising the costs of food, here’s another example of those…
