All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Government, Legislation & Politics

More regulation is not synonymous with greater safety or enhanced benefits to society.  Often, the opposite is true because excessive regulation is a drag on innovation, diminishing competition and the number of products available to consumers, and inflating prices.  Instead of overreacting...

Has it not been noticed that carbon offsets do nothing to protect the environment?  Why bother debating such a politically cynical system of fraudulent regultions?  The offset system -- the buying and selling of permission to start/continue carbon emissions -- does no more (at best) than maintain...

For the voluntary carbon offsets to be credible, an offset project should meet several criteria: the reductions should be real, measurable, verifiable, and "additional". Carbon trading in Europe for environmental projects in poorer nations are being questioned by the U.N. In the U.S. the Federal...

The article discusses the potential for a U.S. carbon regulation and the potential winners and losers once implemented. The Cleantech sector continues to grow with significant investments being made in solar, wind, biofuels and others as well as clean coal and nuclear.The environmental, social and governance...

Colombia’s  20+bn barrels of crude resources are only about 10%  of  neighboring Venezuela, but Colombia ( as oppose to its neighbor )  welcome foreign investment. However, problems with its oil fields are: (1) They are all in the  Arauca province, bordering Venezuela,...

The F.D.A. is the nation's most ubiquitous regulatory agency, a "gatekeeper" whose approval is required before drugs, biologics and medical devices can be marketed.  Trends are worrisome -- greater risk-aversion from F.D.A. officals, skyrocketing development costs, fewer drugs approved...

The Article goings on to say that "trade experts worried the maneuver will wreck U.S. global credibility". Is this something we can afford ?

The F.D.A. is the nation's most ubiquitous regulatory agency; every American encounters F.D.A.-regulated products many times every day.  Fulfilling a "gatekeeper" function -- which means that regulators must approve drugs, biologics and medical devices before they can be marketed -- the agency's...

In spite of a budget presented , which has pleased the farmers for the big loan wavers, and the income tax payers for the big relief in the form of reduction of the tax rates , the Indian economy is now facing serious challenges in the form of a slow down in economic growth , falling stock prices, increasing...

Russian Ministry of Economic Growth and Trade anti-inflationary measures include monitoring of the state sector of economy for the first tome. A draft plan proposes that state companies' be monitored as one of 24 measures to contain consumer prices growth. Meanwhile the monthly inflation rate in January...