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April 28, 2009

Quote Of The Day

by Brad Warbiany

Ezra Klein, who seems almost surprised that the predictions of public choice theory has come to pass:

Matt is right to say that a lot of what passed for “financial innovation” was in fact innovative efforts at regulatory arbitrage.

Well, yeah. When you have a massive regulatory state, don’t be surprised that people spend as much time trying to game the system as they do trying to offer a worthwhile product to the public.


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