Morning Bell: Top 3 Small Business Struggles
Small businesses are getting a lot of focus from politicians, because they are a key engine of job creation—which has stalled in the U.S. economy…. Read More
The Right Road on Regulation
Regulation is like the weather. Everyone likes to complain, but nobody does anything about it. That’s not true, however, of the House of Representatives, which… Read More
Just What We Need: A Bureaucracy for Professional Boxing
A recent poll of American voters found that their top concern is the fair and accurate ranking of professional boxers. Not really, of course, but… Read More
Tales of the Red Tape #34: FDA Invades Piggly Wiggly
Today we examine a proposed regulation that would require some 47,000 grocery stores nationwide to post calorie and other nutrition information each day for the… Read More
Paring Back the Regulatory State
Here’s a question that will be important throughout 2012 and probably for many years beyond: What did the Dodd–Frank financial regulation accomplish? The best answer… Read More
Tales of the Red Tape #33: Congress Discredits Moms
In its ceaseless quest to protect us from ourselves, Congress in 2009 compelled credit card companies to confirm an applicant’s “ability to pay” before approving… Read More
Regulatory Overreach: Obama Administration’s Case Against Gibson Guitar Drags On
Numerous Heritage research papers and postings on The Foundry in the past year have reported on the plight of Gibson Guitar, which has been accused… Read More
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An Inconvenient Wisconsin Truth
A funny thing happened on the way to the recall. Government unions organized Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s (R) recall in retaliation for limiting their collective… Read More
Top 10 Most Expensive Obamacare Taxes and Fees
Yesterday was tax day, serving as a special reminder of how big the federal government has become. As Heritage has warned before, Obamacare is on… Read More
Tales of the Red Tape #30: FTC Sticks It to Appliance Makers
The Dodd–Frank financial strangulation statute transferred a portion of the duties once performed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to the new Consumer Financial Protection… Read More
