What We Can Learn From the History of Deregulation: US Telecommunications Do you own your phone? Do you use speed dialing, call waiting, or voice mail? Do you have a cell phone? Do you send text messages? What about cable TV? Do you have broadband internet access? The reason these inexpensive and invaluable products and [...]
Government-Sponsored Enterprises: Mercantilist Companies in the Modern World (Aei Studies on Financial Market Deregulation) Whatever the value of government-sponsored entities in the past, is the public benefiting from them today? Is the intermittent tradition of antagonism against mercantilist companies justified? Has the special purpose GSE charter outlived today’s fast-moving financial markets? GSEs illustrate the consequences [...]