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‘The Ring’ Free Market Classic

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/10/1989

  During this last week, thousands of Washingtonians have flocked to one of the world’s greatest artistic events, ‘The Ring” by Richard Wagner. Much has…

Business and Government

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Biotechnology Flirts with the Regulators

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/31/1988

Biotechnology, like other unfamiliar high tech industries, offers great hopes but arouses even greater fears. Politicians, the record proves, are far more likely to respond to…

Medicines and Medical Devices

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Cap The Financial Black Holes

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/29/1988

A consensus is emerging that the rate of U.S. thrift and bank failures stems in large part from the perverse incentives of Federal Deposit…

Business and Government

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The Suicidal Corporation: Two Cheers!

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/29/1988

Smith book review for The World and I…

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Is Rent Control’s Lease Over?

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 01/19/1987

  In 1921, the Supreme Court issued its finst rent control decision. In a 5-4 opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Court upheld a…

Law and Litigation

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What’s Wrong With Business Lobbyists

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/15/1986

Fred Smith Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal, January 16, 1986…

Antitrust

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Rethinking Superfund

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/01/1986

Manhattan Report—What are the origins of Superfund? Fred Smith—The Superfund law—the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act—was passed by Congress in 1980 in the…

Energy and Environment

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An Antitrust Route to Re-regulation

  • By: Jule R. Herbert Jr.
  • 07/26/1985

From telecommunications to airlines and railroads, from banking to natural gas, from trucking to broadcasting, partial deregulation has changed the U.S. economic landscape for…

Antitrust

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Taxpayers Tied to the Tracks

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/12/1985

Full article available in pdf. In the latest episode of the Perils of Pauline, the villain, (a.k.a., Amtrak—the most heavily subsidized…

Antitrust

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Beyond Superfund

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/05/1984

Please click on link above to obtain .pdf of the article. Expansion of the Superfund for toxic-waste cleanup now appears to have been deferred…

Energy and Environment

The Politics of IMF Lending

The Politics of IMF Lending

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/01/1984

Full Document Available in PDF I. Introduction The 1983 debate over increasing the funding of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reflects the…

Business and Government

The Politics of IMF Lending

Watt vs Peterson

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/14/1983

Most editorial comment on the running argument between Interior Secretary James G. Watt and Russell W. Peterson, president of the National Audubon Society, totally misses…

Energy and Environment

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Corporate Bankruptcy Needs A Fresh Market Review

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/1983

Full Article Available in PDF Format THE RECENT SPATE OF bankrupt cies involving large corporations has triggered a new…

Antitrust

The Politics of IMF Lending

How the IMF Could Become a Real S&P for International Debt

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 07/26/1983

Should the U.S, donate an added $8.4 billion- to the International Monetary Fund? IMF opponents, of course, answer “No,” They claim that increased- IMF funding…

Banking and Finance

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Why Not Abolish Antitrust?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/31/1982

Full Article Available in PDF Format Deregulators appear to be of two minds about antitrust. They denounce the actual practice…

Antitrust

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