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For decades, deregulation opponents predicted the devastating effect that divestiture and deregulation would have and yet, the market place has once again proved that competition inevitably accrues to the consumers’ benefit—in a big way and a recently released study by Microeconomic Consulting and Research Associates, Inc.

The campaigning is just about over, the pollsters have either succeeded or failed, and by now voters have decided what their concerns are on this election day.

In January of this year, the search engine company Google negotiated an arrangement with wireless phone manufacturer Motorola to "integrate a Google icon onto select devices so that users can connect directly to Google anytime, anywhere at the click of a button.

So that’s why President Bush’s proposal to bring personal accounts to Social Security went down the tubes! As the chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors from 2003 to 2005, Dr.

Thousands of Americans use the Internet to negotiate lower prices for hotel rooms by going to online hotel-booking companies such as Hotels.

If you live on the construction route of a light rail system in a major municipality you feel like you are in the middle of a war zone, where blockades and cratered streets abound.

Government franchising and licensing began in the 19th Century but today stands only for revenue retention and monopoly preservation, especially when the concept of a “natural monopoly” in communications is an obsolete concept. Given broad-ranging competition, the goals and guiding principles of telecom deregulation should be clear, including allowing the market to set prices, ending anticipatory regulation, and applying public policy in a neutral and non-discriminatory way.

Everyone from consumers, businesses small and large, and government policy makers is concerned about rising health care costs.

According to these essays by nine health care experts from Europe and Canada, rationing of care and lack of investment are the real-world results of their health care systems. As a result, patients in those countries are dissatisfied, facing long waiting lines and receiving treatment with old and outdated technologies. The U.S. should carefully consider the experience of patients in these countries before emulating their health care systems.

Uh oh! We may be in for one of those good-news-is-bad-news scenarios.