Si diceva che ad un ridimensionamento di Alitalia a Malpensa avrebbe a breve seguito la decadenza dello stesso scalo milanese. Si diceva che questo e' uno dei motivi per cui lo Stato dovrebbe controllare il trasporto aereo, per non lasciare alle follie egoiste del mercato un servizio cosi' s...

We are lucky to have Barack Obama as president. I write that even though I believe the content of his Tuesday evening speech deserved no more than a B+ / A-, for its failure to seriously address the origins of the banking crisis and for only hinting at the severe military budget cuts required to get...

. ANOTHER POISONING-FOR-PROFIT CASE WILL THE FDA EVER PROSECUTE THESE SICK, GREEDY BASTARDS? YOUTUBE: NBC "The Today Show" "Feb 2, Matt Lauer interview with President Barack Obama" FDA critique at 7minutes 35seconds in on the video. Obama Promises To Fix America's Food Safety Net (Before It Kills Us...

. ANOTHER POISONING-FOR-PROFIT CASE WILL THE FDA EVER PROSECUTE THESE SICK, GREEDY BASTARDS? YOUTUBE: NBC "The Today Show" "Feb 2, Matt Lauer interview with President Barack Obama" FDA critique at 7minutes 35seconds in on the video. Obama Promises To Fix America's Food Safety Net (Before It Kills Us...

I've been predicting major food poisoning for the past eight years, and how ironic is it that the most prominent example happens only after Bush is on the way out the door? I used to work for an FDA-compliance consulting firm, and shortly after Bush took over, the FDA called all its agents back from...

Almost a year ago, Citigroup’s then-director Robert Rubin downplayed the enormity of the economic catastrophe headed our way and made a pre-emptive move to shift any potential blame to politicians instead of financial experts such as himself. Fast-forward to the present and the picture changes...

The Ministry of Public Security and six other agencies would work together “to purify the Internet’s cultural environment,� the government said in a statement....

The purpose of regulation is to crime prevention. Businesses have spent the last generation either ignoring or pretending to ignore this. Businesses must, by their very nature, skate close to the edge of the law. Those who skate closest without crossing over have a big advantage. So regulation exist...

One of the reasons that so many of us here take issue with proposals to expand regulation of communications, broadband, and media markets is because we have studied the horrendous inefficiencies of economic regulation in practice. We oppose regulatory proposals not because of a “blind faith...

What is the root cause of the sub-prime crisis shaking the global economy? We need to know so we don’t allow it to screw up our economy even worse. Many point to dishonesty and poor judgment on Wall Street. There was plenty of that leading up to the near-trillion dollar bailout, and even now the s...