Month: July 2011

Many thanks to Brett McDonnell for pressing me on a few open questions my prior posts left him with. His comments have helped me to clarify in my own mind the…

I want to talk a little bit about my visit to the Thomas Jackson cemetery in Lexington a couple of weeks back.  Tons of interesting things to talk about here…

As we slide towards financial disaster on August 2, I have my eyes on another event that day -- the publication of Sharon Ewell Foster's novel about the Nat Turner…

From an email that I received this week: TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW is excited to expand its academic program and its robust commitment to scholarship with the hiring…

A while back I blogged about the differences between browsing real life paper books in bookstores and browsing for good reads on e-readers.  With the recent announcement of the demise…

In my last post, I discussed the public comment letters. Now, I want to talk about the agency meeting logs.  As part of the new transparency efforts associated with Dodd-Frank…

In my last post, I was discussing the public comments on the Volcker Rule, specifically Table 3, included again in this post, which shows the breakdown of comments by word…

As I mentioned in my prior post, I’ll be using the Volcker Rule as a case study to demonstrate that an important critique of Dodd-Frank – the extent to which…

Jay Reeves has the story, which is a pretty interesting one.  The tax is used now, among other purposes, to maintain Confederate Memorial Park.  Reminds me of some other examples…

I'm taking a course online at the moment which is in the standard format of other online courses I've taken in the past - weekly assignments, discussion board for class…