Legal, Economic & Regulatory Affairs News by GLG Council Members

Due to the economic and security issues involved in our oil dependence the United States must develop a cohesive national energy policy.  A policy that relies on the development of alternative energy sources.  The United States derives 70% of its oil from foreign sources, which is a economic and strategic dagger. Even if we were to begin to develop and drill in areas presently under moratorium...

1)  Obama will continue to raise money at a record pace. 2)  But the Republicans, among public financing, the Republican National Committee, and independent organizations running their own ads, will at least match what Obama puts together financially. 3)  Therefore, Obama's fundraising is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for winning the election in November.

The plan to talk to Middle Eastern leaders to deter (1) terrorism, (2) nuclear arms and (3) peaceful coexistence of Isreal and Palestine is at best "nieve" and at worse contrary to U.S. national interest.  In reality, Obama's focus should be on the strenghtening of the Iraqi relationship with the United States and to foster a relationship between Isreal and Iraq.  If, as with the 1979...

Any American president should understand differences between the OLD and  the NEW Europe ( i.e. EU.) The same economic benefits of EU were preceded by the  BENELUX free-market  rules. The EU is now micro-governed by an  expensive bureaucracy that is much more impotent to do anything worthwhile for member-states than the COMECON  in the late ‘60s. That’s why more and more EU...

How will this settlement affect Amerigroup's business opportunities in Illinois & other states?Will a settlement of this nature confirm the momentum of the Federal government in other similar whistleblower cases?

According to the most optimistic scenarios, if the price of cell phones keeps falling, the earnings of mobile TV in the Mexican market will reach 18 percent of the total in Latin America, that is around 300 million dollars within five years.

1.  Barack Obama will outraise John McCain in the U.S. Presidential race. 2.  The fundraising lead will be far less than Obama's 2:1 June advantage might suggest. 3.  A fundraising lead does not guarantee victory. Past campaigns and political science research show that the financial key for campaigns is to have sufficient funds to compete.  4.  McCain and Republicans will...

Those in the Middle East waiting for US leadership to assume substantive initiative in confronting regional challenges may have to wait longer than expected.

Battery operated cars have,  no clear  future for these reasons: (1) too costly, (2) the more the battery system  is efficient the more trouble-prone and costly-to-repair it becomes, (3) you need electricity to constantly recharge the batteries; this excess demand for electricity has to come from either coal, nuclear or few hydroelectric plants, (4)  new capacities thus need...

Following this month's meeting of the G-8 in Japan, Marco Vicenzino takes a look at the body's role, relevance and need to adapt to new realities.