Regulation

Should a person go to jail, or face thousands of dollars in fines, simply for selling over-the-counter teeth-whitening products and providing a clean, comfortable place for customers to apply those products to their own teeth?

A bill in Florida that would make small brewers sell their own bottled or canned beer to distributors and then buy it back even though the beer would never leave the premises created a national stir involving the “three-tiered” distribution system in

A mixed economy like ours does not remain static. Economic activity increasingly shifts toward government outright (health care, retirement, education) or exists under “Mother-May-I” constraints as energy production does.

Can the government take away someone’s job for no good reason?

Martha Boneta, a big-spirited small farmer, calls newly enacted land-use legislation in Virginia a “landmark event” that will boost agricultural entrepreneurs there.

The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in February ruled the Internal Revenue Service has no legal authority to impose a nationwide licensing scheme on tax-return preparers. The decision affirms a January 2013 ruling by U.S.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) has been trying for years to impose taxes on what you purchase on the Internet. But the so-called "Marketplace Fairness Act" is neither fair or helpful to the market.

There’s no accounting for taste in Minnesota -- unless, of course, the government says so. Minnesota, like Florida, Louisiana and Nevada, wants to license interior designers.

Last year, two young college graduates had a great business idea that has become a huge success in the town of Delray Beach, Florida.

The U.S. Supreme Court may decide the fate of occupational licensing laws, which require government-approved licenses for scores of occupations ranging from hairstylists to geologists, depending on the laws of a particular state.

The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 176 pages, ISBN: 978-1-59420-545-3 What causes rich nations to lose their way?

A Kentucky state law that requires new moving companies to prove to government bureaucrats there is a “need” for their services before they can obtain a license has been blocked by a federal judge. On June 13, U.S.

A ban on large sugared drinks that was to take effect in New York City on March 12 was struck down by a Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice on March 11.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has unveiled a plan to privatize the Keystone State’s monopoly liquor store system, simultaneously executing a move intended to accomplish a goal of his administration while undercutting some of his loudest critics.

U.S. regulatory cost estimates of around $1.8 trillion per year encompass compliance costs paid by the public plus economic drag.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon has allowed a lawsuit seeking an injunction by R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard Tobacco to proceed against the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee.

In this video, Nobel-Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman examines the modern welfare state and discusses why it doesn't work in the long run. As we're now seeing, the long run appears to be catching up with America.

The Heartland Institute on Tuesday held an event on Capitol Hill with Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) in which it presented petitions signed by more than 16,000 Americans demanding Congress rein in the Environmental Protection Agency.

In its fourth annual analysis of global financial regulations, audit, tax, and advisory firm KPMG says investment managers still face daunting challenges from a changing global regulatory environment which is fraught with unanswered questions and an

All 2,300 pages of the Dodd-Frank financial law and its 400 new regulations, many of which are still being written two years after the law’s passage, were jammed down the throat of the American banking system by legislators, most of whom have little to

The Hedge Fund Association has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission in a comment letter to specifically tell private fund managers what they will need to do to safely verify whether investors are accredited, should they want to advertise after

For the fourth consecutive year, the World Economic Forum has lowered the United States in its annual ranking of the world’s most competitive economies. The ranking, released Wednesday, put the U.S. in 7th place, two positions lower than last year.

Do you have a love of fabric and furniture and a talent for decorating? In some states, it’s tough luck if you want to start a decorating business—unless you have a license. Most states actually have laws limiting the use of the title “interior designer.

Speaking at his organization's 10th Annual Access to Capital and Telecommunications Policy conference as reported at RBR.