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Rather than stifling regulatory competition by centralizing regulation, insurance companies should be allowed to choose between an optional federal charter and mutual recognition among state regulators. Such expansion would create a 21st century regulatory system in which they can be globally competitive and better serve the American consumer.

Amidst the headline grabbing economic crisis a bipartisan group of senators, led by Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA), is fighting to enact The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act (S.

FCC and legislative proposals to reserve a segment of spectrum for a content-filtered national wireless broadband provider would deprive many more entrepreneur-driven wireless services, small and large, of spectrum and capital. The risky business plan means a politically favored broadband provider looking for special treatment or bailouts in years to come.

In a prior TaxByte, we saw that Obama’s tax plan would increase marginal tax rates for just about every major federal tax.

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.

“The world's intellectual property system is broken, stopping lifesaving technologies from reaching the people who need them most in developed and developing countries, according to a report released in Ottawa today by an international coalition of experts.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson finally got one right.

Technology continually makes new products and services available to consumers.

This week, the U.

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.