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Chapter 6: Another Dimension of Regulatory Dark Matter: Over 21,000 Agency Public Notices Annually
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Chapter 1: Biden’s Regulatory “Modernization” Expanding Government Affirms the Unworkability of Administrative State Rule
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Chapter 2: Beyond a Federal “Regulatory Budget”
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Chapter 5: The Presidential Dimension of Regulatory Dark Matter: Executive Orders and Memoranda
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Chapter 3: What Comes after “Trillion”? The Unknowable Costs of Regulation and Intervention
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Chapter 4: Tens of Thousands of Pages and Rules in the Federal Register
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Chapter 8: Analysis of “The Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations”
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Chapter 10: Liberate to Stimulate
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Executive Summary – Ten Thousand Commandments 2022
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Chapter 9: Government Accountability Office Database on Regulations
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Another Dimension of Regulatory Dark Matter: Over 22,000 Public Notices Annually
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What Comes after “Trillion”? The Unknowable Costs of Regulation and Intervention
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Swamp Things—Trump’s Discordant Regulatory Impulses Offset His Deregulatory Successes and Expanded the Administrative State
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Bookending the Trump Era: Seven Efforts to Reduce and Streamline Regulatory Flows
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Regulatory Dark Matter: Over 22,000 Public Notices Annually
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Regulatory Dark Matter: Presidential Executive Orders and Memoranda
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The Cost of Regulation and Intervention
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