Environmental advocates say that transportation has been the worst-performing European sector regulated under the Kyoto Protocol, with emissions having steadily risen in the last two decades.
In a 2016 report, helpfully – and in a completely unbiased way – entitled "The Nanny State Index", the UK comes out among the worst offenders in regulating its citizens' private lives, which is bad news for anyone who wants to smoke and get trashed without the government sticking its nose in.
"The worst footprints are in the traditionally regulated states," said Marilyn A. Brown, a professor of energy policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who is one of the report's three authors.
Canada escaped the worst of the crisis, thanks to its sensibly regulated banking sector and its natural resources.
The poll, coming in the wake of a six-month whirlwind of increases in taxes and transit fares and higher prices on regulated rental apartments, is Mr. Bloomberg's worst showing yet.
The worst subprime loans were made not by banks but by barely regulated finance companies such as New Century.
It is as if all New York yearns to find a way through the air across a city that is encumbered, regulated, time-kept, pecuniary, at best indifferent and at worst a leering bully.
No doubt they will regulate the worst, but don't expect a scintilla of culture change.
Potentially, it could also be a way to regulate the worst abuse of payday lending, as I'll explain below.
And let's put a system in place that regulates the worst impulses of the financial industry to ensure that greed does not push Wall Street to the brink of a meltdown again (and do so without being overly intrusive in a way that hurts legitimate business).
Probably, if I think about it, my worst experience with weed is not being able to buy it legally in a properly regulated marketplace.
