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Consumer spending fuelled by credit cards and bank loans has become central to economic growth, but it wasn’t always.
Long-overdue changes are afoot in Britain’s bus networks.
Some Texans are receiving eye-popping electric bills after power providers passed on volatile costs to some of their customers – legally.
If anything, the standards are becoming easier, rather than harder, to apply.
The Trump administration is rolling back a regulation that requires showerheads to conserve water, which saved owners an average of US$70 and nearly 3,000 gallons of water yearly per showerhead.
Wherever it can, the government is using automatic means to get money out of the door. It can keep doing it for as long as needed.
Global forces affect corruption, too.
The shutdown is highlighting the crucial role government plays in the lives of citizens and businesses, offering a reminder of its fundamental value to the economy.
A review of Trump’s stated war on regulations doesn’t find many successful repeals. But it is hurting regulatory enforcement in quieter ways.
The billionaires, business leaders and other elites who gathered in Davos praised the president’s policies, yet research on the politics of economic growth suggests it’s too soon to celebrate.
The Trump administration is committed to deregulating industry, as it’s done with the EPA Clean Power Plan. But a historian shows how regulations have actually benefited both industry and consumers.
GOP lawmakers say their bills to replace the Affordable Care Act would do a better job than the ACA of controlling rising health care costs, but 40 years of deregulation show it just won’t work.
Perhaps there might at least now be a pause on further deregulation when it comes to buildings in the UK
Electricity retailers need to make their prices and offers more transparent and easier for customers to understand, or risk having to submit to price regulation to drive down bills.
The risks posed by deregulating the vocational education and training sector have serious impacts for large sections of the labour market.
Some of the bush tales about regional news that are circulating in the ongoing debate about media reform need to be debunked.
Australia’s “looming gas shortage” - the basis for calls to deregulate coal seam gas - may not be real after all. But gas prices are still set to rise, and that’s an area where coal seam gas could help.
The Australian government’s target of A$1 billion of red-tape savings for the year is now in sight ($700 million up to March 2014 and a claimed $300 million from the carbon tax repeal plus Future of Financial…
Repeal day – a political stunt copied from David Cameron’s government in the UK – will go ahead in Australia this Wednesday. The very fact the government plans to repeal some 10,000 regulations suggests…
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Visitor, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) & Chair of Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance, Australian National University
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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