Americans like to believe. When they hear of some businessman denounced by the media and indicted by a U.S. Attorney, they are likely to say
Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up. Then, as we get older, we..
Measurement often is the crucial step in understanding—and gaining control—of a complex phenomenon....
According to a lawsuit filed this month , after David Kelleran bounced a check he’d sent to renew his liquor license for one of his two
You lost control of the Senate and House for the first time in twelve years and of governorships across the country. President George....
In Holland, Mich., the law under which Nathan Duszynski's hot-dog cart was shut down has not only blocked the 13-year-old's entrepreneurial
Today the Federal Trade Commission—just one of many government agencies here and abroad that have been harassing one of the world’s ...
The burden of unjustified laws and regulations would be hard enough for businesses to bear if they were stable, but uncertainty makes it
Matthew Kluger yesterday received the longest sentence yet for insider trading: twelve years . That's a year longer than Raj Rajaratnam's,..
Secondhand specialty shops in Washington, D.C., had some unwelcome visitors last month: bureaucrats and police telling them they needed..
If you can blame property for crimes, you can seize the property of innocent people. That's called "forfeiture," and government uses it
Business creators and investors are increasingly choosing not to take their companies public, says the Economist, and one reason is...
When people think of Medicare, they usually think of the government health insurance program for seniors over age 65. They may even recall..
We at the Atlas Society and its Business Rights Center mourn the passing of Professor Larry Ribstein, who died of a stroke on December 24...
We at the Atlas Society and its Business Rights Center mourn the passing of Professor Larry Ribstein, who died of a stroke on December 24...
“The law’s delay” is proverbial; there are snails sculpted on the flagpoles at the Supreme Court. But how long should a person sit in......
Gupta is being prosecuted for his alleged conduct during the period when Goldman Sachs, of whose board he was a member, received a massive..
One hundred, thirty-two months in which Raj Rajaratnam, a man capable of making millions through his ability to find out or figure out the..
I’d like to present some excerpts from a prosecution brief in the sentencing of Raj Rajaratnam. Lawyers for Rajaratnam, who is to be.....
Should a lawyer be able to represent both a corporation and its employees? If a corporation’s executives and other employees can’t trust the
