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Antitrust Policy and its Different Perspectives
April 19, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBOn this episode, Alden Abbott, a Senior Research Fellow here at the Mercatus Center talks to Douglas Melamed and Joshua Wright about their different perspectives on pressing discussions around antitrust policy. If you would like to connect with a scholar featured on this episode, please email the Mercatus Outreach team at [email protected]. Competition Corner by Alden Abbott
Dr. Bruce Yandle's March 2022 Economic Situation Report
March 15, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes - 27.7 MBWelcome to the show! On this episode, Matthew Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Equal Liberty Initiative at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, chats with Dr. Bruce Yandle about his latest economic situation report, including inflation, trade, the FTC, and much more. If you would like to connect with a scholar featured on this episode, please email the Mercatus Outreach team at [email protected]. Check out Bruce's report here.
Antitrust Competition and its Intersection with Privacy Data Protection
March 08, 2022 12:57 - 45 minutes - 37.9 MBWelcome to the show! On this episode, Alden Abbott Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and former general counsel at the Federal Trade Commission, speaks with Commissioner Noah Phillips about all things FTC, including consumer protection, antitrust, monopolies, privacy, competition policy, and much more. If you would like to connect with a scholar featured on this episode, please email the Mercatus Outreach team at [email protected].
Evidence-Free Policymaking: HHS SUNSET Rule Repeal
December 28, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes - 16 MBWelcome to The Bridge Policy Download, produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. James Broughel discusses the US Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) proposed rule to rescind the Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely (SUNSET) rule finalized in January of 2021. The SUNSET rule attaches sunset provisions—i.e., expiration dates—to HHS regulations such that if HHS does not conduct assessments and reviews of regulations on a timely basis, the...
Dr. Bruce Yandle's December 2021 Economic Situation Report
December 21, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutes - 25 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we’re bringing you a conversation between Matthew Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Equal Liberty Initiative here at Mercatus, and Dr. Bruce Yandle, Distinguished Adjunct Fellow here at Mercatus. They discuss Bruce’s latest economic situation report for December 2021, including the hot topic of late, inflation. They also talk about expectations for GDP growth and ou...
Dr. Bruce Yandle's September 2021 Economic Situation Report
September 14, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 20.7 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we’re bringing you a conversation between Matthew Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Equal Liberty Initiative here at Mercatus, and Dr. Bruce Yandle, Distinguished Adjunct Fellow here at Mercatus. They discuss Bruce’s latest economic situation report for September 2021, including the role of risk and uncertainty in what Bruce calls the Frankenstein economy. They talk...
Antitrust, Christianity, and Market Regulation
August 03, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today we’re bringing you a conversation between Alden Abbott, Senior Research Fellow here at Mercatus, Daniel Crane, the Frederick Paul Furth Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and Kenneth Elzinga, the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. They discuss the connection between the world of antitrust and Christianity, capitalism as a vehicle for ...
The Future of America's Workforce--Innovative, Mobile, and Independent
July 06, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 33.3 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today we’re bringing you the audio from a recent webinar we held between Karen Czarnecki, Vice President of Outreach, and Liya Palagashvili, Senior Research Fellow, both here at Mercatus, on independent workers, the gig economy, innovation, labor law, economics, and much more. With the rise of independent work--whether app-based, contracting, consulting, and beyond--and new flexible arrangem...
Inflation and What to Expect from the Fed
June 22, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutes - 15.3 MBWelcome to The Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The executive director of the Mercatus Center, Dan Rothschild, has a conversation with Mercatus scholars David Beckworth and Christopher Russo about inflation and deflation, supply side bottlenecks, spillover effects, base effects, the velocity of money, the US debt/gdp ratio, black swan events, and why we shouldn’t fear a repeat of 70s-era inflation. If you would like to contact a scholar ...
Dr. Bruce Yandle's June 2021 Economic Situation Report
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 24.6 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we’re bringing you a conversation between Matthew Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Equal Liberty Initiative here at Mercatus, and Dr. Bruce Yandle, Distinguished Adjunct Fellow here at Mercatus. They discuss Bruce’s latest economic situation report for June 2021, including turning the corner on the COVID-19 pandemic economy, current inflation stats, the difference...
Lessons from Liberalism: Insights for the Current Immigration Debate
June 08, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we’re bringing you the audio from a recent webinar we co-hosted with the Classical Liberal Institute on the current immigration debate. The panel shares insight from their recent books and working papers on the topic and then go on to discuss the benefits of immigration, reform options for our current Congress, how and why reform efforts should be informed by policy research, and much...
Land Use Without Zoning: Putting Ideas into Practice
May 25, 2021 12:00 - 55 minutes - 44.9 MBWelcome to The Bridge Policy Download, produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Zoning and land use policy regulations present the greatest barriers to affordable housing and increased urban density. Understanding how to navigate and remove these barriers allows for a dynamic housing market and paves the way for successful community development efforts. The study of the impact of land use and zoning policy began with Bernard Siegan in his pioneering 1972 study, "Lan...
Digital Platforms: Antitrust or Regulation?
May 04, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today we’re bringing you the audio from a recent webinar we held on Antitrust. Antitrust and other regulatory authorities around the world are busily assessing potential enforcement actions against big digital platforms, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, among others. The panel addresses the following questions: Should governments establish regulations that sets clear rules of cond...
India's COVID-19 Crisis
April 26, 2021 14:05 - 27 minutes - 22.2 MBWelcome to The Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. India's COVID-19 cases have been rising at an alarmingly rapid rate since mid-March, and the virus is now killing thousands of people each day in India. Dan Rothschild, Executive Director here at Mercatus, talks to Shruti Rajagopalan, Senior Research Fellow and leader of Indian political economy research and Emergent Ventures India at Mercatus, about the rising COVID-19 cases in India, if l...
Economic Benefits of the Patent System
April 06, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 29 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we’re bringing you a conversation between Alden Abbott, Senior Research Fellow here at Mercatus, and Daniel Spulber, Professor of International Business, Strategy, and Law at Northwestern University. They take a deep dive into Professor Spulber’s latest book, The Case for Patents, they discuss what we can possibly expect from policy makers regarding patents in the coming years, and muc...
Dr. Bruce Yandle's March 2021 Economic Situation Report
March 16, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 48.3 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we're bringing you a conversation between Matthew Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Equity Initiative here at Mercatus, and Dr. Bruce Yandle, Distinguished Adjunct Fellow at Mercatus. They discuss Bruce's latest economic situation report for March 2021, the latest COVID-19 stimulus package, forgiving student loan debt, the debate for raising the federal minimum wage, ...
The Best Arguments For and Against Paid Federal Leave
December 29, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 28.3 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we’re bringing you the audio from a recent virtual congressional briefing we held on the best arguments for and against paid federal leave. It is often noted that the United States is the only industrialized country without a federal paid leave program. While true, Dr. Veronique de Rugy points out that this doesn't necessarily mean that women in countries that have such government-man...
Dr. Bruce Yandle's December 2020 Economic Situation Report
December 15, 2020 13:30 - 27 minutes - 22.8 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we're bringing you a conversation between Matthew Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Equity Initiative at Mercatus, and Dr. Bruce Yandle, Distinguished Adjunct Fellow at Mercatus. They discuss Bruce's latest economic situation report for December 2020, new life in the coronavirus economy, and much more. Check out The Legacy of Bruce Yandle edited by Donald J. Boudr...
Innovation Policy and its Future
December 08, 2020 13:00 - 58 minutes - 47.7 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we’re bringing you the audio from a recent webinar we held on the future of innovation policy. Adam Thierer promotes his research and perspectives on technology and innovation policy alongside one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the subject, Matt Ridley. If you’d like to contact a scholar involved in this webinar, please email [email protected] We've changed ou...
What Does Progressive Social Security Reform Look Like?
November 24, 2020 13:00 - 56 minutes - 46 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we’re bringing you the audio from a recent webinar we held on social security and progressive reforms. In a new research paper, “An Analytical Framework for Strengthening Social Security,” leading expert Charles P. Blahous details a number of problems facing Social Security and how they can be addressed. Ben Ritz and Jason Fichtner joined Blahous for a discussion to provide insight ...
State Regulation: Policy Solutions for State Lawmakers
October 27, 2020 12:00 - 57 minutes - 46.8 MBWelcome to The Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today we're bringing you part 2 of our most recent webinar on regulatory reform. If you missed part 1, you can listen to that episode here. Our speakers today are James Broughel, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, Matthew D. Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, Gretchen Conger, Deputy Chief of Staff for Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, and Jessica Cleveland, Ok...
State Regulation: The Case for Reform
October 20, 2020 15:26 - 53 minutes - 43.5 MBWelcome to the Bridge Policy Download produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Today, we’re bringing you the audio from a recent webinar we held on why states should undertake regulatory reform. This is the first of a two-part series on state regulatory reform. The second part, on how states can implement reforms, will release next week. Our speakers today are James Broughel, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Colin O'Reilly, Asso...
Regulations and Inequality: How Government Overreach Hurts the Poor
October 13, 2020 12:00 - 43 minutes - 36.2 MBRegulations advance product safety, environmental quality, and sound business practices, but the consequences of poorly designed and implemented rules are more severe than previously thought. Regulatory accumulation has a disproportionately negative impact on the poorest and most vulnerable Americans. From increased poverty and income inequality to reduced entrepreneurialism and upward mobility, the consequences of bad policy are grave. Karen Czarnecki, Vice President of Outreach at the Me...
Dr. Bruce Yandle's September 2020 Economic Situation Report
September 22, 2020 12:00 - 32 minutes - 27.6 MBThe US economy is currently operating along a bumpy path defined more by the coronavirus and reactions to it than by the inherent dynamics of the economy itself. Yet while the path is bumpy and GDP growth puny, America still has a large and active economy. Has the US economy reached a turning point? This week, we're very happy to be able to connect our listeners once again with Dr. Bruce Yandle, Distinguished Adjunct Fellow at Mercatus, Dean Emeritus at Clemson University, and author of t...
Housing, Zoning, and Transit Policies to Help Communities Recover after COVID-19
August 25, 2020 12:00 - 43 minutes - 36.1 MBThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused a great deal of economic uncertainty at the state and local levels. Whether or not the virus is contained in the near future, local governments must provide flexibility in housing, zoning, and transit policies to help their communities recover. Karen Czarnecki, Vice President of Outreach at the Mercatus Center is joined by Emily Hamilton, Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Urbanity Project at the Mercatus Center, Salim Furth, Senior Research Fellow and ...
How to Achieve Small Business Recovery During COVID-19
July 28, 2020 12:00 - 42 minutes - 35 MBThe COVID-19 pandemic is precipitating an unprecedented economic downturn, and small businesses are likely to bear the brunt. Mandatory shutdowns and social distancing forced many small businesses to shut their doors. Even as governments begin lifting social distancing restrictions, the residual effects of unemployment and disrupted business operations will complicate the economic recovery of small businesses. The US government has taken some steps to lessen the damage to small businesses, b...
Behavioral Economics, Rationality, Paternalism and their Impact on Public Policy
July 07, 2020 12:00 - 40 minutes - 33.8 MBOn today's episode, Shruti Rajagopalan, Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, chats with Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman about their latest book, Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy. The three of them discuss the impact that behavioral economics, rationality, and paternalism have on public policy including, nudge paternalism, sin taxes, default rules, true preferences, and how behavioralists may be the new baptists. Check out some of the Mercatus Cent...
Dr. Bruce Yandle's June 2020 Economic Situation Report
June 23, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 33 MBAfter what may have seemed like an eternity to all who have suffered coronavirus pain and death, with June at hand, America has witnessed 19 brutal weeks since its first coronavirus case was identified on January 22. But while these 19 weeks may seem like an eon, it is still the case that owing to high social media speed, actions taken to contain the virus have occurred in record time. This week, we're very happy to be able to connect our listeners once again with Dr. Bruce Yandle, Disting...
The Best and Worst Ideas to Address Future Economic Challenges Post COVID-19
June 16, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutes - 37.2 MBAs the COVID-19 pandemic enters a preliminary phase of economic recovery, questions about how we respond is of concern to lawmakers, economists, and others. Veronique de Rugy and Michael Strain are experts at understanding “big picture” economic implications of different policy options. They will review the three best and three worst ideas that have been put forward for economic recovery thus far. To add to our ongoing COVID-19 policy webinar series, this conversation covers: Three key po...
How to Address Regulations Suspended During the COVID-19 Crisis
May 19, 2020 12:00 - 45 minutes - 37.9 MBAttempting to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are suspending or rescinding laws and regulations that hinder timely, sensible responses to the pandemic. The temporary departure from these rules is causing many to question the need to reinstate them post-crisis. A diverse cross-section of scholars has written on why this is an important time to evaluate whether or not some of these regulations are really beneficial and how policymakers can ...
Trade Wars, Tariffs, Impeachment Proceedings and their Impact in 2020
December 17, 2019 13:00 - 39 minutes - 31.5 MBWelcome back! On today’s episode, Mercatus scholar Matthew Mitchell and Mercatus Distinguished Adjunct Fellow, Bruce Yandle, discuss the recent hot button topics flooding the current news headlines and their influence heading into the 2020 presidential election. What will be the economic impacts of the trade wars and Trump's tariffs? Who's really losing when it comes to paying for these tariffs? What do the Trump impeachment proceedings mean for the economy? Matt and Bruce sit down to di...
Interpreting CDA Section 230 and its Future
July 02, 2019 12:00 - 53 minutes - 42.7 MBWe're back to bring you a special episode on CDA Section 230 or, as one of our guests put it “the 26 words that created the Internet." This law paved the way for the explosion of Facebook, YouTube, and numerous other internet companies by protecting them from being held liable for what users say and do on their platforms. This also allowed each platform the freedom to develop its own content moderation standards. But, as these platforms have grown larger and central to public discourse, ...
The Future of Healthcare: Medicare for All and Beyond
May 14, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 30.8 MBFew words are more politically and emotionally charged in Washington than “healthcare.” Just as the Affordable Care Act was hitting a decade or so of nearly continuous debate, so-called Medicare for All proposals have become the latest battleground for healthcare policy wonks. Even beneath those big picture headline debates, other, smaller questions swirl around the healthcare world, including issues like prescription drug prices. We'd probably bet that the looming 2020 election season i...
Does Federal Debt Hurt the Economy More Than We Thought?
April 30, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes - 23.4 MBWhile it sometimes feels like a lifetime ago, it was just back in August of 2011 that Standard & Poor’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating from AAA to AA+. Since then, concerns about US federal debt have gotten less and less attention with each passing year even as debt itself continued to rise. For context, we think the number the last time we checked was just north of $22 trillion, while the federal deficit was just shy of a trillion dollars. But should we even care? After a...
Auer Deference and Administrative Law
April 16, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 28.1 MBDeference is one of those magical words in the world of regulatory policy. Different types of deference play a huge role in how courts and federal agencies interact when it comes to deciding cases, and those cases in turn help shape federal policy on everything from healthcare to financial markets to environmental protection. We say that upfront, because we’re about to dip our toes in the waters of administrative law, that’s the branch of law that deals with how regulations are made, and C...
Making US Capital Markets More Resilient
April 02, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutes - 29.6 MBAt any given time in an economy, you generally have two groups of people: some who have extra money and want to find a way to put it to use, and others who have ideas for how to use that money. The various products, services, and institutions that work to connect those two groups of people are collectively known as “capital markets,” and they’re a vital part of making the economy work, from providing vehicles for retirement savings to funding new businesses just starting up, or helping exist...
Dr. Bruce Yandle's March 2019 Economic Situation Report
March 26, 2019 12:00 - 55 minutes - 44.6 MBWelcome to a special bonus episode of the Mercatus Policy Download. This week, we're very happy to be able to connect our listeners with Dr. Bruce Yandle, Distinguished Adjunct Fellow at Mercatus, Dean Emeritus at Clemson University, and author of the now-famous “Bootleggers and Baptists” model for understanding unlikely political alliances. Long-time Mercatus fans will know that Bruce has been providing regular updates on the state of the economy for some time now, and earlier t...
Preventing Bank Failures from Becoming Bank Crises
March 19, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 31 MBToday’s episode is part two in our resiliency series. Last time we talked housing and the Financial Crisis, and we’re not straying too far from that today. We’re going to be talking banking resiliency. For a long time, banks have been viewed as big, secure buildings where we keep our money and go to get a mortgage. Events like the financial crisis, however, tend to force people in the broader economy to wonder: how do we stop bank crises before they begin? Today, we’re going to try and g...
Making the Housing Market More Resilient for Homeowners, Neighborhoods, and the Economy
March 05, 2019 13:00 - 35 minutes - 28.1 MBToday we start a special miniseries on the idea of economic resiliency. Over the course of several weeks, we’ll be diving into three distinct policy areas to talk about ways policymakers can help make consumers, specific markets, and the entire economy better able to withstand shocks and crises. To help guide us through the series, we'll be joined by a special co-host, Brian Knight. Brian is a scholar here at Mercatus, directing our work on financial regulation, and is the perfect person t...
Are We Entering a New Age of Data Privacy Law?
February 19, 2019 13:00 - 36 minutes - 29 MBData privacy. Just saying those two words together probably conjures a whole host of emotions, ranging from suspicion and fear about the way corporations collect and use our personal information to amazement at the quantity and variety of digital products and services that our personal data buys us access to. As any lawyer will tell you, privacy has always been a tricky issue to pin down, and the digital age has made that even more obvious, as consumers seem both more willing than ever to ...
Will Interstate Compacts Change the Stadium Subsidies Game?
February 05, 2019 13:00 - 39 minutes - 32.4 MBWith the Super Bowl behind us, football fans are already looking ahead to the 2020 season, and they’re not the only ones thinking about the future of the NFL. More specifically, speculation about where and how new stadiums will be built is in full swing, particularly in the Washington, DC area. Even back in December, the Washington Post reported that Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder was working with Congress to secure a deal for a new football stadium, and in response, local lawmake...
The Promise of Medical Drones
January 22, 2019 13:00 - 30 minutes - 25.1 MBWhat comes to mind when you hear the word “drones?” For some, the answer might be a remotely-piloted military aircraft. For others, it might be the little quad-copter you fly around your backyard for fun. But for our guests today, drones might be the future of healthcare. Other countries have already started experimenting with drone technology in order to deliver medication, blood, or other supplies, and the technology could one day replace or augment some ambulances or emergency helicopte...
The Future of Local, State, and Federal Regulations in 2019
January 08, 2019 13:00 - 29 minutes - 24.2 MBEven in the middle of a partial federal government shutdown, federal, state, and local agencies continue to play a huge role in the policy world and our everyday lives. Regulations help determine everything from the kind of toothpaste you used this morning to the music you listened to on the radio during your commute to rent prices in your neighborhood, and after an exciting year of regulatory policy in 2018, we're eager to hear more about how the regulatory landscape may change in the year ...
Here's to the Most Important Economic Developments of 2018!
December 25, 2018 13:00 - 37 minutes - 30.6 MBThere are a lot of ways we could wrap up the year, but probably none better than to take a step back, look at 2018, and ask ourselves what the most important economic developments were. From trade wars to interest rate hikes, inverting yield curves to tax reform implementation, a lot happened this year. We've asked our guests today to be prepared to talk about…well, just about everything. We actually want to start with a disclaimer that we normally wouldn’t include, and it’s that we are ...
Here's to the Big Tech Wins of 2018!
December 11, 2018 13:00 - 34 minutes - 28.5 MBTo kick off the year, MIT’s Technology Review did something they’ve done every year since 2001: they picked “10 Breakthrough Technologies” to watch in the coming years. Those breakthroughs varied from 3D metal printing to artificial embryos to ubiquitous and affordable artificial intelligence and everything in between. We’re not going to go through the list and rank how those predictions turned out, but we are going to bring on our own technology policy experts to get their take on the big...
Here's to Globalization and Free Trade!
November 27, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes - 26.2 MB***Stick around until the end of the show to hear our latest What's on Tap segment and what beer we're drinking today! Check out the Twenty Three Anniversary beer by Avery Brewing Co. in Boulder, Colorado here.*** The last time we talked about trade was back in April, right about the time China had started to threaten new taxes on imported American products. That, of course, was a response to our own new taxes imposed on imported steel and aluminum. A lot has happened since April, inclu...
Here's to Building Innovation-Friendly Infrastructure Policy!
November 13, 2018 13:00 - 31 minutes - 25.4 MBThe policy world loves to talk about infrastructure. Support for infrastructure policy is often bipartisan, and it’s almost assumed now that candidates running for office will use the phrase “crumbling roads and bridges” at some point during their campaigns. But there’s another side to infrastructure that might be more interesting than those roads, bridges, and airports, and that’s the infrastructure innovation that often happens at the state and local level. Given promising new technologi...
How Regdata Is Powering Regulatory Reform, One State (And Country) at a Time
October 30, 2018 12:00 - 22 minutes - 18.8 MBToday we have a special, behind the scenes episode for you. Earlier in September, the Atlas Network announced the finalists for the 2018 Templeton Freedom Award, and the Mercatus Center was fortunate enough to be on that list. Specifically, Atlas identified the RegData project and the way states have used the project to reform regulations. Since there’s a lot to unpack in that one sentence, Chad's joined by some Mercatus colleagues who have been instrumental in the project from day one t...
How Healthy Are Your State's Finances?
October 16, 2018 12:00 - 24 minutes - 20.2 MBAfter more than a year of debating federal tax cuts, a return to trillion dollar deficits, and the fiscal condition of the federal government, you might think there’s not much more to say about fiscal solvency in the US. Of course, for those who follow state policy issues, there is still plenty to discuss spread out among 50 state government budgets. In fact, the Mercatus Center just released its fifth and final study of the fiscal condition of all 50 states. The study ranks each state acc...
Here's to Effective Regulatory Reform!
October 02, 2018 11:00 - 31 minutes - 25.8 MBA little over a year and a half ago, President Trump issued his 7th Executive Order. Titled “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs,” Executive Order 13771 is better known in regulatory policy circles as the “1-in-2-out” rule. The general idea is that if you have too many regulations, one way to fix the problem is by requiring that regulatory agencies eliminate 2 rules for each new one they implement. Longtime listeners will recall back in May when we discussed the issue brie...