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Ruehle Tells Story of Backdated Options, Prosecutorial Misconduct

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

Nov 12, 2012
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10 Mins
Yes, Mr. President, Ayn Rand Is for Teens -- and Everyone Else

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..

Oct 26, 2012
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Alexander R. Cohen
4 Mins
U.S. Economic Freedom: Retreat Becomes Rout

Measurement often is the crucial step in understanding—and gaining control—of a complex phenomenon....

Sep 21, 2012
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Walter Donway
6 Mins
NY Authorities Serve Bartender an Injustice Cocktail

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

Aug 23, 2012
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2 Mins
Dr. Hudgins's 12-Step Cure for Big Government Conservatism

You lost control of the Senate and House for the first time in twelve years and of governorships across the country. President George....

Aug 15, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Cronyists Shut Business, Sunder Family, Put Teen Entrepreneur in Homeless Shelter

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

Aug 10, 2012
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2 Mins
FTC Extracts Fine from Google as Harassment Continues

Today the Federal Trade Commission—just one of many government agencies here and abroad that have been harassing one of the world’s ...

Aug 9, 2012
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2 Mins
Stossel on Regime Uncertainty

The burden of unjustified laws and regulations would be hard enough for businesses to bear if they were stable, but uncertainty makes it

Jun 7, 2012
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Lawyer Gets Record Insider-Trading Sentence

Matthew Kluger yesterday received the longest sentence yet for insider trading: twelve years . That's a year longer than Raj Rajaratnam's,..

Jun 5, 2012
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2 Mins
DC Regulators Back Down from Crackdown on Secondhand Stores

Secondhand specialty shops in Washington, D.C., had some unwelcome visitors last month: bureaucrats and police telling them they needed..

May 30, 2012
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2 Mins
Forfeiture Strikes Businesses

If you can blame property for crimes, you can seize the property of innocent people. That's called "forfeiture," and government uses it

May 22, 2012
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2 Mins
Rejecting Public Ownership

Business creators and investors are increasingly choosing not to take their companies public, says the Economist, and one reason is...

May 18, 2012
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2 Mins
ObamaCare: Rx for Crisis

When people think of Medicare, they usually think of the government health insurance program for seniors over age 65. They may even recall..

Mar 7, 2012
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David Hogberg
15 Mins
In Memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946)

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...

Jan 4, 2012
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3 Mins
In Memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946

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...

Jan 4, 2012
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3 Mins
Waiting for Gershon

“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......

Dec 29, 2011
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3 Mins
Why Care About Rajat Gupta?

Gupta is being prosecuted for his alleged conduct during the period when Goldman Sachs, of whose board he was a member, received a massive..

Nov 7, 2011
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3 Mins
An Unjustified Sentence

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..

Oct 13, 2011
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4 Mins
Defiant Defendants and Corrupting Incentives

I’d like to present some excerpts from a prosecution brief in the sentencing of Raj Rajaratnam. Lawyers for Rajaratnam, who is to be.....

Oct 12, 2011
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3 Mins
Undermining the Attorney-Client Privilege

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

Oct 5, 2011
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3 Mins

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