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Stephen Bainbridge: Unions abusing pension funds for politics
- Even though Labor Day is over, it’s still worth thinking about the role of unions in our economy. In some respects, private sector unions are almost powerless. The percentage of private sector workers who are unionized has been declining steadily since the mid-1950s.
Stephen Bainbridge: Libertarians, conservatives part on animal cruelty laws
- American conservatism is an exceptional movement with few global parallels. As the late National Review Senior Editor Frank Meyers famously argued, American conservatism fuses Edmund Burke and John Stuart Mill to combine tradition, moral virtue and ordered liberty with classical liberalism’s libertarianism.
Stephen Bainbridge: Sarbanes-Oxley bleeds profits, cuts risk taking
- Apologists for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act claim that its corporate governance reforms benefit the American economy in a number of ways, including restored investor confidence in the integrity of the capital markets, enhanced corporate disclosures and reduced incentives for corporate management to manipulate stock prices. Unfortunately, these benefits are both intangible and resistant to measurement.
Stephen Bainbridge: No need for federal regulations limiting executive compensation
- The House of Representatives’ Rules Committee has approved floor debate for a bill introduced by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, to amend the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide shareholders with an advisory vote on executive compensation.
- The House of Representatives’ Rules Committee has approved floor debate for a bill introduced by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, to amend the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide shareholders with an advisory vote on executive compensation.
Stephen Bainbridge: Much ado about little on Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- After the Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest public meeting, the media widely reported that the commission was preparing significant regulatory relief for the smaller public corporations on whi Sarbanes-Oxley imposes significant costs.
Sami Hartsfield
Houston Legal Issues Examiner
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Book review: 'Terror in the Mind of God' by Mark Juergensmeyer
Houston Legal Issues Examiner
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Book review: 'Terror in the Mind of God' by Mark Juergensmeyer
