Republicans have talked of creating high-risk insurance pools and loosening state regulations, but neither tactic would do much to help the people who have been left out, like Jim Young's family.
Indeed, while 'incentives,'vesteded interests,' power, and increasingly social utility are often factored into analyses of financial regulation, the strategies and tactics of financial institutions are rarely discussed in a systematic way in academic and policy debate.
In the days ahead, we will look at other urgent topics: poverty, education reform, foreign affairs, military tactics, bank regulation, the environment, immigration, the black community, drug policy, health care, Obama's partisan political legacy, his willingness (or lack thereof) to change the tone in Washington and the prospects (or lack thereof) for a grand budget bargain.
Modern regulations reject command-and-control tactics in favor of "such efficiency-oriented instruments as tradeable permits, corrective taxes, … and other tools designed to replicate the conditions of a well-functioning market".
Does that last minute or two in a college basketball game need more regulation against foul-for-profit tactics?
This will be key, as Uber's typical tactics of sidestepping regulation probably won't fly when controlled airspace is involved.
The second of the two main regulations focuses on blocking a tactic known as "earnings stripping," a practice that is not limited to corporate inversions.
Generally, I'm not a big believer that laws or regulations are very helpful for the tactics and operations of a security professional.
The Bush administration has proposed welcome new regulations to curb the deceptive, hard-sell tactics often used to foist private Medicare policies on unwary consumers.
The most successful players in the industry have tackled the problem head on, bringing marketers and compliance teams together to brainstorm effective tactics that won't skirt regulations.
