It’s Congress’s Fault America’s Constitutional system provides for a sharing of power among the three branches of Federal government: the executive (the President); the legislative (Congress); and the judicial (the courts and, ultimately, the Supreme Court). Each branch has the primary responsibility for a...
The Hollowing Out of America There have always been two Americas: the rural, onetime agricultural America; and the urban, once the-center-of-manufacturing America. In 1900, America was a rural country with a rural-to-urban population ratio of 60:40. By 1950, the country had become urbanized with a ratio...
Insider Trading Everyone’s doing it …, right? Of course not. Everyone knows that it’s against the law to trade on inside information … right? And that stealing mis-appropriating material, nonpublic information for personal gain will get you into deep legal trouble … right? Everyone...
The Art of the Deal What is President Trump’s strategy in trade negotiations with China … in the pre-negotiation sanctions imposed on Iran … in the sanctions imposed some time ago on and ongoing negotiations with North Korea … in the sanctions threatened against Turkey …...
Government Regulation Is government regulation good for America … or bad for America? The answer, of course, is that sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad. How can you tell the difference? The goal of regulation is to both ensure public safety and create a clearly-defined set of operational...