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...
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...
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...
Rent Stabilization/Control is Back With a vengeance. At least it now is in New York State (and is a growing trend in a few other States as well). Although tenants love it today, will they still love it … tomorrow (with a bow to Carole King). Although 2019’s...
The Offensive Against America’s Champions Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google/Alphabet are America’s capitalist champions most notorious monopolies. They should be broken into their component parts just like the Justice Department did with AT&T in 1984. That dismemberment gave America eight telecommunications companies that could...
