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The Volcker Winter Storm — Bad Rule, Worse Implementation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/11/2013

On a snowy day in Washington, several federal agencies packed some mean regulatory snowballs that will most likely overshoot their supposed destination of Wall Street…

Consumer Freedom

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Government “Study” on Internet Tax Hides Harmful Small Business Effects

  • By: John Berlau
  • 11/20/2013

Under presidents of both parties, the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy has produced quality independent studies on the harmful tax and regulatory burden on…

Consumer Freedom

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Twitter, the JOBS Act, and the Return to IPO Normalcy

  • By: John Berlau
  • 11/07/2013

The headline read that the company's initial public offering price is "high," and "so is its valuation."  The accompanying story explained that the latest tech…

Regulatory Reform

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Mel Watt Fails Taxpayer, Privacy, and Transparency Tests

  • By: John Berlau
  • 10/31/2013

Former Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., failed his procedural confirmation vote today to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees the government housing entities Fannie…

Regulatory Reform

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Don’t Let FTC Shut Down Legit Credit Repair Services

  • By: John Berlau
  • 10/29/2013

Next to the infamous Healthcare.gov, the website that featured the most bugs of the last month was FTC.gov, the site of the Federal Trade Commission. During…

Regulatory Reform

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Shut Down Fannie and Freddie Permanently

  • By: John Berlau
  • 10/11/2013

Cross-posted from Newsbusters.org “U.S. Government Shutdown Threatening Housing Recovery,” screams the Oct. 2 headline of a shutdown scare screed in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Wade…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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Twitter IPO a Vindication of Bipartisan JOBS Act

  • By: John Berlau
  • 10/04/2013

Almost two years ago, I wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled, "Making It Legal to Tweet for Investors." In the op-ed, I described bipartisan bills…

Regulatory Reform

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Mississippi Should Tell CFPB to “Stop Spying on Me”

  • By: John Berlau
  • 09/17/2013

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is coming to Mississippi Wednesday and Thursday with a public forum on "access to information." A vital question for Mississippians to…

Consumer Freedom

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Paul and Udall Push Bipartisan Credit Union Business Lending Regulatory Reform

  • By: John Berlau
  • 09/10/2013

Today, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) is launching its "Don't Tax Tuesday" in which credit unions and their supporters tweet members of Congress…

Regulatory Reform

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Judge Leon’s Lawless Durbin Amendment Debit Card Decision

  • By: John Berlau
  • 08/19/2013

Since Judge Richard Leon issued his shocking decision on July 31 that called for even more draconian price controls under Dodd-Frank's Durbin Amendment, some legal commentators…

Regulatory Reform

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Not With Banks, Not With Retailers, But With Freedom

  • By: John Berlau
  • 08/09/2013

In explaining my policy positions, I often find myself pointing out I am neither pro-business nor pro-bank, but pro-market. My Competitive Enterprise Institute colleagues and I…

Regulatory Reform

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Court Wrong to Make Dodd-Frank Durbin Price Controls More Draconian

  • By: John Berlau
  • 07/31/2013

Today, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that the Federal Reserve's implementation of the Durbin Amendment of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, which sets price controls on…

Regulatory Reform

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On Dodd-Frank’s 3rd Anniversary, “North Star” is Further Out of Reach

  • By: John Berlau
  • 07/22/2013

Over the weekend, President Obama hailed the third anniversary of the enactment of the Dodd-Frank “financial reform.” In his weekly radio address, the president…

Regulatory Reform

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SEC Finally Permits Free Speech for Hedge Funds, VCs, and Entrepreneurs

  • By: John Berlau
  • 07/10/2013

Today is finally the day that the Securities and Exchange Commission -- one year and three months after it was instructed to do so by…

Consumer Freedom

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More Recognition that Dodd-Frank Harms Main Street Banks, Farmers, and Airline Passengers

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/20/2013

In two high-profile forums last week, Dodd-Frank, the financial "reform" law sold as targeting Wall Street, was shown to have a devastating effect on Main…

Regulatory Reform

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Udall-Paul Legislation Spreads Freedom for Credit Unions and Entrepreneurs

  • By: John Berlau
  • 05/20/2013

By definition, if a bill is sponsored by Sens. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., or any similarly odd ideological couples in the House, it…

Regulatory Reform

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How Online “Marketplace Fairness Act” Could Tax Your 401(k)

  • By: John Berlau
  • 05/06/2013

Today, the Senate likely will pass the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would force online retailers to collect sales taxes for states in which purchasers reside. Most have heard how this…

Consumer Freedom

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Housing Nominee Watt Flunks Privacy And Transparency Tests

  • By: John Berlau
  • 05/01/2013

Two prerequisites for any nominee for government posts is dedication to transparency in government and a respect for the privacy of citizens. Before we get…

Law and Litigation

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Did Hensarling Force Obama’s Hand On “Recess” Appointments?

  • By: John Berlau
  • 05/01/2013

They called it a "stunt" early last week when House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) refused to allow Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)…

Consumer Freedom

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Dodd-Frank’s Burden On Credit Unions Highlighted At Hearing

  • By: John Berlau
  • 04/12/2013

At a recent speech before a convention of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA), new Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made the pitch that the Dodd-Frank…

Regulatory Reform

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JOBS Act — What’s Been Implemented — Is Working; Now Implement The Rest!

  • By: John Berlau
  • 04/08/2013

CEI Research Associate Evan Woodham contributed to this post. Another round of disappointing jobs numbers released last Friday shows more than ever that massive…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Bipartisan Dodd-Frank Derivatives Deregulation Advances In House — And Main Street Cheers

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/20/2013

This afternoon, members of the House Agriculture Committee with strikingly different views on many issues came together to provide much need regulatory relief from the…

Regulatory Reform

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What Cyprus (Initially) Got Right — Remembering The 2008 WaMu Capital “Run”

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/20/2013

There's no shortage of criticism of the Cyprus "bail-in" -- the one-time tax the government had proposed levying on insured and uninsured depositors to rescue…

Regulatory Reform

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Dallas Fed’s Fisher And CPAC’s Fishy Too-Big-To-Fail Event

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/16/2013

If the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) organizers wanted a speaker or panel on the causes of the financial crisis and what to do about…

Insurance

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Sequester Show May Not Have Jumped The Shark, But Its Format Has Changed

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/08/2013

Are you watching the Sequester Show? In today's Wall Street Jorunal, my friend Kim Strassel says the sequester drama has "jumped the shark,"  a phrase used when…

Regulatory Reform

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The Real Birthday Of America’s First Entrepreneur

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/22/2013

While Monday was the federal holiday celebrating his birth, today is the real birthday of George Washington. He was born February 22, 1732. In a…

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Payback? Government Targets S&P And Egan-Jones, Not Moody’s Or Fitch

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/12/2013

Why not Moody's? Why not Fitch? Of all the questions raised about the U.S. government's strange case against Standard & Poor's—a lawsuit that actually  asserts that…

Regulatory Reform

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The Coming Regulatory Recession?

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/31/2013

Yesterday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce reported the stunning news the U.S. economy actually contracted by 0.1 percent…

Regulatory Reform

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SEC’s White May Be All Right, But Cordray’s CFPB Still A Constitutional Catastrophe

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/24/2013

Today, President Obama will send to the Senate two nominations for two key financial regulatory posts. Noting that both of the nominees subject to Senate…

Consumer Freedom

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Qualified Mortgage Rule Is One Of Many Dodd-Frank Boots To Drop

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/10/2013

The first thing that should be said about today's "qualified mortgage" rule is that it is just one of many new regulations the Consumer Financial…

Consumer Freedom

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