Policy Documents

Sarbanes-Oxley Role In Slowing Economy’s Recovery

John Berleau –
June 10, 2009

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a key part of Sarbanes-Oxley brought by CEI. 

John Berleau, director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, checks up on Sarbanes-Oxley seven years after the financial-disclosure law took effect. Passed in response to the Enron scandal and the tech bubble, the law has fallen far short of its goals, and its costs are hindering recovery of the US economy. Berleau explains why in this 6-minute video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnwI2YBM4To&fmt=12.