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Quotes About Regulation

with lawlessness freedom is inconsistent
~ Arthur Herman
And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
~ Arthur Laffer
God is only truly known in the soul as we yield ourselves to Him, submit to His authority, and regulate all the details of our lives by His holy precepts and commandments.
~ Arthur W. Pink
God is only truly known in the soul as we yield ourselves to Him, submit to His authority, and regulate all the details of our lives by His holy precepts and commandments. "Then
~ Arthur W. Pink
The way forward is not simply to make corporations more accountable or to set up regulative bureaucracies; it is not even a matter of recognizing full citizenship for the 'coloured', 'elderly', 'disabled', 'women', or 'queer' through liberal pluralist policy. Likewise, the conservation of a few 'pristine' patches of nature at the margins of urban capitalism will have little effect on the collapse of biodiversity.
~ Ashish Kothari
The British Board of Censors will not pass any seduction scene unless the seducer has one foot on the floor. Apparently sex in England is something like snooker.
~ attributed
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
~ Ayn Rand
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
~ B.F. Skinner
After 2008, my brand of finance got a bad rap.
~ Eugene Fama
Being a 'monopoly' is not illegal, nor is trying to best one's competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or more rapid innovation.
~ Marvin Ammori
Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.
~ Steve Eisman
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
~ Ralph Nader
When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.
~ Bret Stephens
A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
~ Elvira Nabiullina
I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.
~ Rick Perry
I'm the daughter of proud immigrants myself, but it's clear that successive federal governments have allowed the rate of immigration to NSW to balloon out of control.
~ Gladys Berejiklian
Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.
~ Kenneth Lay
Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
~ Xavier Niel
Over time, low rates can put pressure on the business models of financial institutions.
~ Jerome Powell
Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.
~ Urjit Patel
Putting an end to usurious rates is not going to be as simple as asking banks to lay down internal guidelines, policies and procedures.
~ Sucheta Dalal
You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.
~ Tobe Hooper
Before the CFPB, there was no single agency or entity within the federal government tasked with protecting Americans from predatory or negligent practices of banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders, payday lenders, credit rating agencies and other financial service businesses.
~ Joe Sestak
Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
~ Matt Taibbi