“This week, financial advisors have been informed of some new disclosure and reporting rules. As expected, the impact of the Dodd/Frank Bill is already foreshadowing a ridiculous amount of additional paperwork – mostly silly work as one of my colleagues would call it. Financial regulation...

Published on August 30, 2010 by Thomas West — Abstract: Although there are many scholarly treatments of the Founders’ understanding of property and economics, few of them present an overview of the complete package of the principles and policies upon which they agreed. Even the fact that there...

“Fisher said a more pressing problem is that recent fiscal and regulatory policies are not necessarily conducive to economic growth – a message he hears from many business contacts. “The prevailing sentiment is that politicians and officials who craft and enforce taxes and rules have been...

“Just pretending that we can continue with the same monetary policy, the same Federal Reserve system, and all these guarantees sort of concedes that we’re going to have another bubble. If we have regulations and plans for how we distribute these assets later on, it just says that nothing...

“Federal Reserve officials were divided at their Aug. 10 meeting over whether they should resume purchases of Treasury bonds and what impact the move could have on the nation’s economy, according to minutes released Tuesday. In the end, the Fed’s policymaking committee elected to reinvest...