Posts Tagged ‘regulation’

Europe Slumming, foreclosure rulings, etc.


(Click on the image above–it is from a very interesting exhibit from 2005.) (1) Europe Slumming It: Last month the LA Times and other outlets reported about IKEA’s factory in Virginia where the company is treating workers in ways that would be unacceptable, and illegal, in Sweden.  Workers are pushing back, garnering not much attention ...Read more.

Regulatory Review; EconoFAQs on QE2


(1) Bill Black on Obama’s Regulatory Review: I had to chuckle at the Times’ headline about Obama’s regulatory review a couple of days ago:  Obama Asks for Review of Rules Stifling Jobs.  As I mentioned in my last post, the new post-Tucson civility has rendered the Republican’s phrase “job-killing” into “job-destroying”;  now it has morphed ...Read more.

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