Quotes About Regulation

The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

I think the I.R.S. is a Sword of Damocles over the First Amendment, and I think it is a menace.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.

It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.

When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.

Hand-wringing parents don't want their precious offspring looking at wieners and hoo-hahs when they're supposed to be amassing student debt, so they demand that the Termite Mound fix the problem by Doing Something.

Capitalism is not a synonym for free markets.

Q: Explain the concept of homeostasis? A: It is when you stay at home all day and don't go out.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

The system is a contradiction: the very logic imposed on the capitalist enterprise undermines the overall success of the capitalist. For Marxists, no law, rule, regulation, or behavior pattern provides an escape from this contradiction; none ever has.

Contraception was an issue of women's freedom for Keynes, who also recommended in 1925 that women's pay must be regulated to ensure fairness. It took over forty years for Keynes's pioneering views to be met by legislation: male homosexuality was partially decriminalized and contraception made available to all women under the Sexual Offences and Family Planning Acts of 1967; the injustice of women's low earnings was first addressed in the Equal Pay Act of 1970.73

Econs do not suffer from self-control problems, and so temptation is not a word that exists in the economists' lexicon. As a result, most of the world's regulators have not thought much about the problem. But when the dessert cart comes by, we humans often cave. The next thing we know we are fat.

California and New York now require that any subscription that is initiated online can also be canceled online.

Society takes enormous trouble over who is allowed to adopt a child, but none about who is allowed to produce one. This has led the psychologist David Lykken to suggest that parents should have to get a licence before child-bearing, or otherwise risk the danger that their child will be taken away for adoption.

Her supervisor explained that the Family Medical Leave Act did not extend to siblings. A brother, in the eyes of the medical-leave law, was not family.

To call any music subversive, to say that a set of pitches and rhythms could pose a threat to real power . . . ludicrous. And yet, from Plato to Pyongyang, that endless need to legislate sounds. To police the harmonic possibilities as if there were no limits to music's threat.

If nobody's losing money or getting hurt, the law doesn't give a fuck.

In 1920 the Horthy regime introduced a numerus clausus law restricting university admission which required "that the comparative numbers of the entrants correspond as nearly as possible to the relative population of the various races or nationalities.

By 1963, more than 98 percent of US gasoline was leaded. When, a decade later, lead was finally ordered removed from the US gasoline supply, it was removed because it fouled the new catalytic converters mandated to fight smog, a different air pollution problem, not because it had been labeled a dangerous pollutant itself.

We call such a prohibition a curfew, a word derived from Norman French covre le feu: "cover the fire!