In his latest column, the Washington Post’s Robert Samuelson, who’s generally not big on big government, comes out pretty much in favor of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, but expresses one major concern. He worries that by limiting the scope of Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, which is the part of the law […]
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Posted inGovernment, Magazine, May/June 2013
A Short History of Data-Driven Government
If it can be said that there is a father of data-based government, it is a famous and controversial one: Robert McNamara. As a young captain during World War II, McNamara was assigned to the Army Air Corps Office of Statistical Control, where he applied the ideas about efficiency and cost-effectiveness that he’d learned at […]
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Keep Your Eye on Dodd-Frank
Take a look at these two articles in today’s New York Times. Both talk about how the same bank, JPMorgan Chase, is maneuvering in the rough-and-tumble, post-Dodd-Frank world of financial regulation. And both underscore a larger point, which I make in my article, “He Who Makes The Rules,” in this issue of the Washington Monthly: […]
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2013
Why Agencies Are Always Missing Their Deadlines
Even the best mainstream news stories on the regulatory process tend to mention the number of deadlines an agency has missed as if that’s an indication of its performance. But that kind of coverage is actually an indication of just how little we know about what’s going on behind the scenes. For one, deadlines are […]
Posted inMarch/April 2013
He Who Makes the Rules
Barack Obama’s biggest second-term challenge isn’ guns or immigration. It’s saving his biggest first-term achievements, like the Dodd-Frank law, from being dismembered by lobbyists and conservative jurists in the shadowy, Byzantine rule-making process.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2012
Drone On
It’s probably a matter of when, not if, al-Qaeda in Yemen successfully strikes the U.S. Yet the drone attacks currently keeping the organization at bay are also helping recruit more terrorists. Can you say “no-win situation”?
