Recent Posts Tagged With 'Regulation'

• Health Care Reform: It is a Lie

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 16:16 in obama, Regulation, health care reform, the annals of protest, institutional conformity

  Yep it’s a lie. After the summer of discontent, and the President’s speech last night (with it’s heckling) I’ve written up my thoughts on the current health care debate. Health Care Reform: It is a Lie I wish we were talking about the issu...

• RIP Mark-to-Market

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 07:42 in Regulation, sox, barney frank, g-20, mark to market, the annals of protest, wall street bail out

  The first good news to emerge since the start of the Financial Crisis came out yesterday as the remarkably dumb regulations requiring Mark-to-Market accounting were repealed. Maybe the government can do some good, after all. Mark-to-Market (MtM) acco...

• Comments on the current crisis - Regulation

  Posted on Saturday September 27th, 2008 at 10:54 in insurance, sarbanes-oxley, Regulation, sox, disclosures, sox section 404, the annals of protest, wall street bail out, internal controls, ny department of insurance

  As a follow on to my last post, and in the spirit of more regulation is good (the protest cry from the streets these days following Wall Street's crisis), here are two ideas where we might be able to do more with less: Fedealize insurance regulation...

• Comments on the current crisis

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 07:17 in Regulation, new york times, david brooks, sara palin, the annals of protest, wall street bail out

  An angry and probably jealous nation is getting ready to make some big mistakes in financial industry regualtion. Given that the media has been driven into a psychotic incoherent rage, first over the popularity of Sara Palin, and then by the incompr...