All Posts Tagged With: "regulatory burden"
The Infrastructure Delusion: Getting Nowhere Faster
Infrastructure does not an economy make. Highways and railroads, airports and seaports, communications towers and fiber-optic cables are essential for the flow of commerce, but it is the people, goods, and information moving over and through this infrastructure that are the heart of an economy. Overinvestment in roads, bridges, and airports means underinvestment in the [...]
26Oct2011 | Richard W. Fulmer | 12 comments | ContinuedThe Regulatory Conundrum
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. When Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, wanted a $190,000 Ferrari 360 Spider, he went to a German dealer, since it would have taken two to three years to obtain one from [...]
1Jun2003 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Poverty of Regulation
Ronald Reagan famously asked voters during the 1980 presidential campaign, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” A similar test can be applied to government regulation: Has it left us safer and healthier than we would have been without it? Just like the voters in 1980, we can answer that question with [...]
1Dec1999 | Michael J. Catanzaro | 3 comments | Continued-
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