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Ohio Should Consider Creating Regulatory Sandboxes
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Brian Knight
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December 7, 2021 | Financial Regulation
Regulatory sandboxes were developed to achieve several important goals, including encouraging innovation, competition, and entry in highly regulated industries; providing regulators with greater insight and transparency into cutting-edge products and services; and furthering consumer protection by both helping innovators design their products to be compliant with the law and encouraging the introduction of products and services that will better serve consumer needs.
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SEC Proxy Disclosure Proposal Won’t Protect Investors’ Interests
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Caleb Griffin, Brian Knight, and Andrew Vollmer
12/7/2021 • Bloomberg Law
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O Christmas Tree, Fake Christmas Tree, How Tariffed Are Thy Imports?
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Christine McDaniel
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and Polina Prokof’yeva
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December 8, 2021 | The Bridge
The odds are that your artificial Christmas tree — amid reports of shortages for both real and fake trees — will be Chinese made. Some 80% of Americans observe the holiday with an artificial tree, and 98.3% of fake tree imports are from China. While scarcity and shipping-container costs in the ongoing supply-chain crunch may be driving up tree prices, Washington’s Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports don’t appear to be a factor like they are for many other goods. Artificial Christmas tree importers in 2019 sought and received a tariff exemption from the U.S. Commerce Department.
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States Could Bypass Dithering DC Bureaucrats And Forge Their Own Ties With Eager UK
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Christine McDaniel
12/6/2021 • Forbes
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Covid’s Gales of Change: A Golden Age for Entrepreneurs?
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Bruce Yandle
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December 9, 2021 | The Bridge
Word from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that October’s unfilled job openings jumped to around 11 million — the second highest level on record and up from some 6.8 million in October 2020 — provided powerful evidence that employment markets have a long way to go before things begin to feel normal again. But for those inclined to look on the bright side, we can find some silver lining.
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Even Mild Omicron Could Create Severe Chaos
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Tyler Cowen
12/9/2021 • Bloomberg Opinion
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Biden’s Flawed Executive Order Kills Economic Competition
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Alden Abbott
12/5/2021 • The National Interest
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Carola Binder and Christina Parajon Skinner on Populism and Legitimacy at the Federal Reserve
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David Beckworth
12/6/2021 • Macro Musings
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How Access to Banking Can Improve Health Outcomes
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Shruti Rajagopalan
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12/9/2021 • Ideas of India
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