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Government Versus Market Regulation: The Nanny State Or The Liberal State, Warren Coats

Warren Coats

The nanny state world is characterized by a growing list of regulations and government supervision of business in an effort to fix the most recently observed problems. The price of such protection is the increased cost of doing business, which tends to crowd out small businesses and favor large ones, which can more easily absorb the compliance costs. The benefit is often difficult to detect. Has Dodd-Frank really made it feasible to fail our largest banks (now larger than they were just before the Great Recession), i.e. are they no longer too big to fail?

The self-governing, liberal state—"Liberalism unrelinquished"—is …

Where Should We Go From Here? Inflation, Regulation, And Debt, Warren Coats

Warren Coats

A review of where the U.S. is and/or should be going over the next few years with regard to monetary policy, financial regulatory reform, and the debt bomb.

The Financial Crisis: Act Ii, The Way Forward, Warren Coats

Warren Coats

Outlines how to restore financial discipline to the financial sector while avoiding inflation.

Institutional And Legal Impediments To Efficient Insolvent Bank Resolution And Ways To Overcome Them, Warren Coats, Arno Liuksila

Warren Coats

This paper explores the legal constraints for establishing a more efficient procedure for removing unsuccessful banks from the system. It calls for special legal techniques that treat banks differently than other companies.