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Comments directed to the White Paper dated August 28, 2007 from the NAIC Personal Lines Market Regulatory Framework (EX) Working Group. These comments are directed primarily to two aspects of the White Paper that are particularly problematic:  its treatment of rate regulation, in general, as somehow different in kind (and function) from price controls; and its specific recommendations to the Property and Casualty Working Group.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson finally got one right.

Technology continually makes new products and services available to consumers.

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There is a growing tendency for federal agencies to make policy through the antitrust merger review process whether at the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, or the Justice Department—extracting policy commitments from companies while they are at the mercy of a regulatory agency during a merger review.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama doesn’t just pledge to raise taxes; he proposes to raise the most economically damaging marginal tax rates of every major federal tax: Obamanomics would: Raise individual income taxes, increasing the top two income tax rates, with the top rate climbing by 13 percent, to almost 40 percent.

Going to meetings, to class, or engaging customers in person has gotten much more expensive—to the tune of $4.

This can’t be good! The Detroit Free Press reported August 5 that the country’s top three automakers are looking for a bailout from Washington.

Those famous lyrics from “New York, New York” just might have to be changed, at least for online retailers.

Jim Frogue, the state project director for Newt Gingrich’s Center for Health Transformation, has proposed an idea that worth’s considering.