Fed Expands Its Span Of Control Over US Banks – OpEd
“First Republic Seized, Sold to JPMorgan,” reads the headline on page A1 of May 2’s Wall StreetJournal. First Republic’s collapse—the second largest bank
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Author: William F. Shughart II
William F. Shughart II is Research Director and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, the J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, and past President of the Southern Economic Association. A former economist at the Federal Trade Commission, Professor Shughart received his Ph.D. in economics from Texas A & M University, and he has taught at George Mason University, Clemson University, University of Mississippi, and the University of Arizona.
Website: http://www.independent.org
Articles by William F. Shughart II :
Make Standard Time Permanent – OpEd
Almost everyone hates springing forward and falling back every year. Moving clocks ahead one hour in March only to return
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The Fed’s Cost Overruns – OpEd
“Fed Remodel Keeps Inflating” by Andrew Ackerman and Nick Timiraos (Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2023, p. A1) reports that the
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The FTC Is Guilty Of Violating The Laws That Authorized Its Creation – OpEd
“The FTC’s Antitrust Collusion” (Wall Street Journal editorial page, February 24) pieces together 628 pages of redacted emails revealing that the
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Noncompete Contract Clauses Are Agreed-Upon Voluntarily – OpEd
Eighteen percent of U.S. workers are bound by noncompete clauses in their employment contracts, according to a story by Dave Michaels and
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Stop The Madness Of Mandatory Time Changes – OpEd
Hundreds of millions of Americans suffer the effects of being forced to move the hands of their clocks back or
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Progressives, Leave The Senate Alone – OpEd
Jack Rakove’s WSJ podcast (“James Madison’s Critique of the Senate Still Holds,” Sept. 16, 2022) is right on the history
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SCOTUS Properly Reined In The EPA: Will The IRS And SEC Be Next? – OpEd
In the last of a series of landmark rulings issued at the end of its 2021–2022 term, the U.S. Supreme
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer And Antitrust – OpEd
United States v. Microsoft Corp., 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001) was the first major antitrust case of the digital age. At its conclusion, Judge
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Noncompete Contract Clauses Are Agreed-Upon Voluntarily – OpEd
Eighteen percent of U.S. workers are bound by noncompete clauses in their employment contracts, according to a story by Dave Michaels and
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