One of the oldest federal agencies, theOffice of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)was established in 1863 by the National Currency Act. Its main purpose is to supervise, regulate, and provide charters to banks operating in the U.S. to ensure the soundness of the overall banking...
monitoring or implementing those rules. However, corporate rule-making and implementation bodies (RMIBs) over which policymakers have the most influence—legislatures, public regulatory agencies, stock exchanges, and private/professional bodies with a degree of self-regulatory autonomy—...
Are we making the assumption that terrorists can’t have valid IDs, even when the administration is busy preaching fear and the necessity of domestic spying (which means there are terrorists among us)? And given how Democrats knuckled under and let the Bush Administration trash FISA, I won’...
Certainly, it has benefited [Hosteny] and his [partners] and several of their prominent clients, and has put Marshall, Texas on the map; but you really have to wonder if the “tax” placed on industry by the System (and its use of juries or lay judges to make the call on oft...