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Free Markets Don’t Have to Mean No Regulation

A pragmatic, free-market take on insurance related issues from R Street Institute’s Eli Lehrer. A one-time boss of mine—a bearded gentleman who liked cigars, opera, candy and the Austrian School of economics—used to insist to me that the private sector …

U.S. Treasury’s Geithner Put on Spot for Delayed Insurance Report

A Republican Congresswoman took an opportunity during a hearing on Tuesday to ask U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner why the Federal Insurance Office is late with its report on modernizing insurance regulation. The inquiry came from seven-term U.S. Rep. Judy …

Treasury Says More Time Needed to Complete FIO’s Modernization Report

The Treasury Department’s Federal Insurance Office was expected to complete and send its highly anticipated report on modernization of insurance regulation to Congress in January. But now, it looks like it may take a while longer. A spokesperson for the …