Friday, February 25, 2011

Well then, Cui Bono?

John Carney at CNBC takes us to school on "regulatory capture":

Pennell asked whether MERS was worried about an investigation by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The general counsel’s reply was a stunning admission—basically MERS isn’t worried because it is convinced that the government regards it as too important to be sanctioned for misconduct.

As Leona Helmsley might have put it, regulations are for the little people. They exist not to rein in the powerful, but to protect them from competition.

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