regulation

Campus groups share thoughts on immigration reform
Daily Illini, November 20, 2009

Dear Daily Illini,

What do a wasteland full of weeds, Pfizer, and the Supreme Court have in common? The answer is the power of eminent domain. In the 2005 case of Kelo v.

Millions of Americans choose to continue smoking despite known health risks. Presumably, the value they get from smoking is (rightly or wrongly) worth the risk to them. But for a short time, it appeared that smokers had a healthy third alternative: electronic cigarettes.

Capitalism is in crisis, claims Richard Posner on the pages of the Wall Street Journal today. This crisis happened, he says, because “a capitalist economy, while immensely dynamic and productive, is not inherently stable.” Furthermore, he suggests that “the banking crash might not have occurred had banking not been progressively deregulated beginning in the 1970s.”

Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis has sparked controversy in his recent testimony to regulators. Lewis has revealed that he was threatened, by then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Chairman of the Fed Ben Bernanke, to buy Merrill Lynch, a company drowning in financial losses of billions of dollars.

When we hear the word “regulation,” most people immediately think of the government.

A recent news article describes a new law in France which, if passed, will make it illegal to promote “extreme thinness.”  This ban outlaws images of excessively skinny models in the media and on websites that incite people to severely restrict the amount they eat.  The purpose of this law is to protect individuals, particularly children, from the saturation of unhealthy dietary habits in the culture.  Such regulation will purportedly reduce the prevalence of anorexia in France.