If mutual funds sold automobile leases and advertised only the down payment while leaving disclosure of the monthly fee to boilerplate that says "see the contract," the U.S. Federal Trade Commission would be all over them about consumer protection violations.
That said, why not simply take the whole practice capable of abuse off the table by leaving disclosure of a grand jury subpoena totally up to the recipient?
While the impulse within the Left (disclosure: I consider myself a liberal, at least in the classical sense) to defend minority cultures from criticism is born of genuinely admirable intuitions, it can neglect the very minorities the Left is trying to protect when exercised dogmatically.
In the meantime, Congress should take the Supreme Court up on the one area it has left alone, disclosure requirements.
In that context, the accepted standards for disclosure leave those who scrutinize polls in the dark.
Editors of The New England Journal of Medicine said that they were puzzled by and skeptical of the JAMA data, but confirmed that the publication left such disclosures to the discretion of authors.
Since 2009, they have at least been required to make disclosures about how large those amounts are, but the disclosures leave out some things and — amazingly enough — in some cases do not seem to add up.
Some say that bank disclosures leave out or obscure crucial information, a view that has become more widespread since the financial crisis.
He was surely aware that the required disclosures would leave him red-faced, too.
