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Are Congressional Staffers Engaged in Insider Trading?

Professor Bainbridge explains the current law on insider trading here , and argues that the staffers could be found in violation of insider

Oct 13, 2010
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1 Min
Bob Moffat Does Not Deserve Prison

Robert Moffat has apparently asked to begin his six-month prison term for insider trading on November 5 rather than on next June 30...

Sep 21, 2010
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2 Mins
Enron's Lessons for Capitalism

March 2002 -- The sudden bankruptcy of Enron Corporation is a scandal that has rocked support for the free market. Living in a division-of..

Sep 9, 2010
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William Thomas
10 Mins
The Servile Citizen

A large billboard in a local Metro station cautions passersby to “Cover your cough” and “Wash your hands frequently” when you have a cold...

Sep 7, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Tax Codes Reflect Moral Codes

Why should we acquiesce when governments take our money? We would be upset if thugs stole our wallets at gunpoint or thieves broke into our

Aug 26, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
If You Discover Insider Trading, Can You Trade on Your Discovery?

It seems that SMARTS Software , developed in part by Professor Mike Aitken , has now been sold to 150 brokers worldwide who use “its...

Aug 4, 2010
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2 Mins
Wyly Update: Insider-Trading Charge Is "Edgy"

I am always surprised to find a report more sympathetic than I am to businessmen facing legal persecution--and when the report comes from

Jul 31, 2010
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2 Mins
Why Is Payola Illegal? The Univision Case

It seems that Stanley Kurtz has an interesting book coming out this fall: Radical-in-Chief . Even before publication, it is provoking some

Jul 30, 2010
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2 Mins
Choose or Lose: How Regulation Destroys Value

When economic crises hit, politicians of both parties are demanding more regulation of the economy. Failures in banking and finance...

Jun 26, 2010
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William Thomas
10 mins
Fight Club: How bad politics turns good neighbors into rivals

Front, my side (call us the “Alliance for Choice”) was recently crushed by the Egalitarian Axis in the Battle of the Universal Pre-K Lottery

Jun 26, 2010
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10 Mins
Criminal Charges for BP?

The Gulf Spill Once again, journalists are speculating about the possibility of bringing criminal charges against BP CEO Tony Hayward...

Jun 24, 2010
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2 Mins
Aviation Insecurity

You asked “Are we any safer?” I have to ask you, safer from what? If we are talking about a repeat of the 9/11 incident, I think we are.....

Jun 23, 2010
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10 Mins
Join the Ogre Resistance

It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After

Jun 22, 2010
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2 Mins
Drunk on Our Money

You walk into a bar and see the same drunk who’s there every night lying on the floor in a pool of his reeking fluids. He raises his head...

Jun 21, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Producers vs. Expropriators: America's Coming Civil War?

This is not mere rhetoric. It describes a crack in the American community that since Barack Obama’s election as president has widened into..

Jun 21, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
EPA Spy Planes Monitor Feedlots

In its efforts to supervise Nebraska cattle producers' obedience to the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is literally...

Jun 4, 2010
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2 Mins
Interview: The Fall of Ken Lay

Enron will prove to be one of the most important episodes in the history of American business, and its story, from beginning to end, is

May 13, 2010
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10 Mins
Why are so Many Americans Uninsured?

April 24, 2009 -- As Congress returns from spring recess and gets to work hammering out a health care reform bill, that dreaded statistic

Apr 20, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
Why is FedEx Crying "Bailout"?

June 19, 2009 -- When I first saw the “Boycott UPS!” group on Facebook, I must admit that I was ready to believe the worst. After being

Apr 20, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
4 mins
Switzerland Attacked!

Most Americans know peaceful and prosperous Switzerland—America’s “sister republic”—for its beautiful mountains, tangy cheese, decentralized

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins

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