An Open Letter to Israel

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A series of proposals designed to reshape Israel’s posture toward its neighbors from its present negative, unproductive stance to a more positive and, hopefully, more constructive one.

In support of the Securities & Exchange Dismission

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In failing miserably to meet its own mission-statement objectives during the Great Recession, the Security and Exchange Commission provided another example of the limitation of big-government regulation. Not surprisingly, such matters are handled much better on Postcapia.

Wall Street Journal article on regulation

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In my posting on the SEC, I pointed out that the agency fell down on the job during the financial crisis. The Wall Street Journal article indicates that this was not an exception. Regulatory agencies are destined to fail to begin with.

Snapshots of the Orient

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A few scattered impressions from a recent trip to the Orient.

Stelzer’s Travels, Installment 6

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Our hero undergoes orientation and picnics with a friend.

Governance Redefined, Part I

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Perhaps I have been unduly critical of our public servants. Certainly there are among them a number of energetic, intelligent, trustworthy, altruistic members of Congress. Does not that alter the negative portrait of the institution that I have painted? Not at all. Even if we filled every seat in Congress with the likes of these dedicated legislators, it would still be prevented from functioning properly by a number of structural problems that beset all representative democracies.