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“Financial Reform”: Partisan Politics and Lobbyist Study Buddies

“Financial Reform”: Partisan Politics and Lobbyist Study Buddies

Last Thursday, the US Senate passed S.3217, a financial reform bill supposed to reign in Wall Street and prevent a repeat of the recession in whose midst we still suffer.  At least its title, “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of ...Read more

Fiancial Reform and Its Real Starting Point: Looking in the Mirror

Fiancial Reform and Its Real Starting Point: Looking in the Mirror

Last Thursday’s newspapers were full of news.  Above the Wall Street Journal’s crease, for example, readers learned about violence in Greece, where three people were killed in a firebomb attack during a national strike that was ...Read more

A Victory for the First Amendment

A Victory for the First Amendment

When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. ...Read more