He revolutionized America's transportation system by deregulating trucking and railroads, and brought air travel to the middle class by deregulating the airlines.
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And even if there were appetite for bipartisanship, deregulating banks—banks!
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Even members of the drug industry are nervous about deregulating the agency.
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It's not just major law enforcement officials who are opposed to deregulating silencers.
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Not only is the Trump administration not regulating, it is not deregulating either.
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In fact, Trump hopes to boost it by deregulating fracking on federal land.
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"Now is absolutely the wrong time to be deregulating," Bair told CNN Business.
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The federal government should not be in the business of deregulating at all costs.
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When it stands in the way of deregulating Wall Street, it is cast aside.
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Republicans say that deregulating carbon pollution will revive the coal industry, but it won't.
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This is not to say that Pruitt isn't deregulating the old-fashioned way as well.
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Deregulating the banking sector was projected to produce a bonanza in which all would share.
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Building owners are prohibited from deregulating apartments as long as they receive the tax benefits.
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The tool also summarizes a landlord's history of correcting violations, deregulating apartments and evicting tenants.
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How much will that hurt Mr. Trump's ability to govern — and to continue deregulating business?
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And this consolidation has undone some of the progress that came from deregulating the industry.
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Earlier this year, the EPA took steps toward deregulating major sources of toxic air pollution.
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"This announcement may be an example of what the FDA commissioner recently called "deregulating by regulating.
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Plans to liberalise labour laws, for example by deregulating working hours, are not a vote-winner.
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Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai is setting a record pace for deregulating the communications industries.
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We are gradually deregulating the price subsidies, we are opening up for competition, which is fine.
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Inhofe's provocative style served a purpose: to push for deregulating air pollutants that cause climate change.
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An EU shorn of Britain's deregulating influence is a troubling portent for the liberal world order.
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As some have pointed out, Congress could have fixed the ACA by deregulating across state lines.
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Especially if the new administration's first move to support the common man is deregulating the banks.
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Will the Environmental Protection Agency choose to control one pollutant, while deregulating an equally hazardous pollutant?
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No surveys show voters clamoring for President Bill Clinton's blend of cutting welfare while deregulating finance.
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He was firmly in favor of deregulating the financial services industry before the big crash in 2008.
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Deregulating banks at a time when the Republican president is constantly touting the economy's performance is nonsensical.
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Critics say that deregulating the media industry will lead to extreme consolidation, shutting out smaller, independent outlets.
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They can't do it because they are ideologically rigid and obsessed with cutting taxes and deregulating business.
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"The only immediate solution is the unrealistic one: the Feds deregulating cannabis as schedule 1," Heimerich said.
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Both narrators also wanted Trump to succeed with deregulating the economy, cutting taxes and strengthening the military.
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A potential rollback of water use regulations would fit the administration's continued efforts at deregulating the EPA.
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At the time, Leahy was leading a group of policymakers who were in favor of deregulating encryption.
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Under Trump, the appointment of individuals committed to curbing overregulation shows the momentum toward deregulating Washington is rising.
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But it's consistent with the Trump administration's pattern of deregulating coal waste and feigning ignorance of the consequences.
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The conservatives' No. 1 priority is lowering premiums, and they believe deregulating the insurance market will achieve that.
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Rwanda's government took other steps too, waiving taxes and duties for glasses and deregulating the sale of glasses.
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All this yielded many benefits: deregulating airlines, to take just one example, made flights cheaper and more accessible.
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But critics say that deregulating the media industry will lead to extreme consolidation, shutting out smaller, independent outlets.
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The change would be the latest example of the Trump administration's efforts to loosen worker protections by deregulating businesses.
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Deregulate Few issues have animated Donald Trump as much as deregulating the economy, particularly energy markets and financial institutions.
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The IMF urged policymakers to boost growth with actions such as deregulating certain industries and raising labor market participation.
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Ironically, given that Republicans typically lament welfare traps, deregulating health-insurance markets might make it pay to be poor.
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Together, the two main funders have put about $2628 million into the campaign to support deregulating the energy market.
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The Cruz amendment's language deregulating the individual market has reportedly been quite difficult for the scorekeeping agency to analyze.
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That Trump's team of former Goldmanites will unleash prosperity by deregulating Goldman Sachs doesn't strike Goldman's economic analysts as plausible.
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If the President-elect means what he says about deregulating the money business, it's hard to imagine a better choice.
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The vast majority of gun owners — 73 percent, according to a Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC poll — oppose deregulating silencers.
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He would be expected to be in favor of deregulating banks and possibly more aggressive on interest rates than Yellen.
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So for the last two decades, Nitschke and the right to die underground have explored technological solutions to deregulating death.
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As The New York Times has reported, the bill's overall theme of deregulating the insurance market could cause more uncertainty.
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The earlier bankruptcy stemmed from rising electricity costs during a shortage caused by the state's attempts at deregulating the power industry.
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Broadly speaking, the right of the party wants to complete the Thatcher revolution by deregulating markets still further and slashing taxes.
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Deregulating the FDA may potentially lead to further outbreaks, making one of the most innocuous sandwiches in history, slightly less innocuous.
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When it comes to regulating — more precisely, deregulating — corporate America, Republicans and Democrats are all too eager to find common ground.
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Third, despite the president's rhetoric, his NLRB is not deregulating but, rather, selectively regulating — that is, regulating unions but not employers.
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But is deregulating coal, degrading environmental standards, stripping women of contraceptives and challenging tyrants around the world to war their candy?
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She also believes that deregulating attorneys' referral fees will ultimately benefit consumers by enhancing the transparency of the legal advertising business.
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Aside from Gottlieb's industry ties, Public Citizen also raised concerns about positions Gottlieb has taken on deregulating the drug review process.
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The Trump administration has favored deregulating the financial sector, and it would be surprising if it suddenly put up a fight.
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Around then, governments across the Western world began deregulating their economies, selling off state-owned industries, and privatizing core government services.
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Initially, the prospect of playing a role in deregulating Wall Street and slashing corporate taxes must have thrilled many business leaders.
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Policymakers relaxed these regulations over the course of the 1970s and early 1980s, deregulating industries like trucking, airlines, telecommunications, energy, and more.
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But generally, these moderates are not okay with really significant coverage loss and seem to care less about deregulating the insurance market.
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Deregulating and removing many excessive, unnecessary licenses would be a huge relief for those needing employment and for employers seeking scarce workers.
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Some things—confirming conservative judges, cutting taxes for wealthy Americans, deregulating the financial industry—are always on the table in his Senate.
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Consider: On the home front, Bush dealt with rising income inequality by cutting taxes for the rich and deregulating the financial sector.
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Meanwhile, instead of helping transition to clean energy jobs, the Trump administration has doubled down on subsidizing and deregulating the fossil fuel industry.
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So Gottlieb's "hands-off" rhetoric might not mean much, since HHS secretary Tom Price is more interested in defunding his department than deregulating it.
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is set to announce reforms but will not propose completely deregulating the market, two officials briefed on the plan said.
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The Commission said it will look at deregulating telecoms companies where they face competition from similar services, such as Microsoft's Skype or Facebook's WhatsApp.
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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said earlier this month he would try to dissuade his U.S. counterpart Steven Mnuchin from deregulating the financial markets.
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Some Republican proposals have called for deregulating the private insurance industry, a move that would allow companies to sell health plans across state lines.
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"[He] did a bunch of stuff deregulating as India moved from a socialist economy to more of a capitalist economy," the younger Chetty recalls.
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In June, when Congressman Steve Scalise was shot at a baseball practice DC, he was scheduled to appear on the Hill to discuss deregulating silencers.
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Consider that the Trump administration is deregulating finance during an economic boom and that the Federal Reserve has not yet raised counter-cyclical capital requirements.
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The conservative Freedom Caucus says the goal is deregulating the health insurance marketplace, to drive down the cost of health insurance in the individual market.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday he would try to dissuade new U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin from deregulating financial markets.
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"What we're seeing since countries began deregulating their banking systems in the 80s, is banks lending money to anyone who wants it," he told me.
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Macron, a 38-year old former investment banker, made his mark deregulating services including bus transport during a stint in Socialist President Francois Hollande's government.
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But net neutrality's supporters warn that deregulating the internet gatekeepers is going to upend the way startups can harness the internet to grow their businesses.
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It's ironic that at the same time states are deregulating cannabis, there is greater discussion of regulating the so-called addictive properties of personal technology.
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Deregulating methane emissions The EPA announced in August that it would propose changes to the Clean Air Act that would remove standards for methane emissions.
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Trump also said that his administration may be able to stop deregulating after 2018 because there won't be any targets left for him to cut.
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But net neutrality's supporters warn that deregulating the internet gatekeepers is going to upend the way startups can harness the internet to grow their businesses.
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Sinclair benefits because the FCC is deregulating the broadcast and broadband industries at their request and on their terms — as Chairman Pai has promised he would.
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The Environmental Protection Agency just took a dramatic step toward deregulating some major sources of toxic air pollution, which could have huge implications for public health.
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Sanders said Democrats have lost support among working-class voters in part because the party joined Republicans in deregulating Wall Street and enacting massive trade deals.
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WHAT YOU REALLY NEED OVER THERE ARE SOME OLD FASHIONED SUPPLY SIDE, INCENTIVE ORIENTED TAX RATE REDUCTION AND OTHER WAYS OF DEREGULATING LABOR MARKETS AND ECONOMIES.
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The proposal had drawn criticism from small business and consumer advocates, who said deregulating the market would hurt competition and drive up prices for the services.
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It should be clear by now to the mayor of every major city that deregulating new construction is key to preventing inequality, sprawl and job losses.
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I think the President has been very good in deregulating some of the overregulation in the economy, at least that's the perception of the business community.
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Trump does not unilaterally have power over deregulating community banks, however, and "it takes mostly congressional action," Fine noted in the joint CNBC interview on Monday.
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Staying true to a campaign promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare with slight strategy adjustments that entail deregulating doctors isn't just a win – it's a bonus.
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Mr Peña Nieto's administration has done something to extend the benefits of globalisation to this other Mexico by deregulating telecoms and taking on the teachers' unions.
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In 20073, three years before the Citizens United decision, Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February, urged him to move faster in deregulating campaign finance law.
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Britain in the eighties was experiencing the fullest—and most painful—extent of Margaret Thatcher's reforms, aimed at liberalizing and deregulating the country's postwar industrial economy.
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And it wasn't deregulating the insurance market; that wasn't a goal Republicans could achieve through the reconciliation process they planned to use to pass the AHCA.
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To justify such an increase — and, therefore, deregulating the apartment and raising the rent much higher — Bronstein would have needed to spend almost $83,000 on renovations.
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Renewed interest in deregulating suppressors (also known as "silencers") came last fall after Donald Trump, Jr. met with SilencerCo, a Utah-based company that manufactures silencers.
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Hershman's biggest resume line when it comes to tech policy is that he was instrumental in the passage of a bill deregulating the telecom sector in Indiana.
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Indeed, the earlier draft promised small businesses protection from "the liberalisation of working hours, the rapid expansion of large retailers" and the EU's directive on deregulating services.
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The Trump administration is fervent about deregulating the financial sector and walking back from police reform efforts, all while consumer biometrics are proliferating on a massive scale.
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" The petition suggests that deregulating line speed would help Trump in his quest to reduce "regulatory burdens on the industry" and "make the federal government more efficient.
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But now that the Trump administration is in the business of deregulating, agencies are ignoring the costs of deregulation, which will be borne by society at large.
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Deregulating banks—or doing just about anything that suggests coziness with banks—has not exactly been a winning message in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Deregulating even more than the plaintiff had requested, and without giving the parties a written opportunity to address his novel theories, Kavanaugh ignored binding Supreme Court precedent.
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The activists in the so-called "deathing underground" consider self-determined exit to be a natural right and see technology as a potent avenue for deregulating death.
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Others push Trump on other issues — from managing steel tariffs to using government funds to help build roads for self-driving trucks to deregulating truckers' safety standards.
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Congress can choose another way: Deregulating industry will provide women with more professional choices, and amending rigid labor laws will endow employers with the flexibility to provide flexibility.
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The big picture: Early in Trump's administration, business urged him to slow down on deregulating, stressing that narrow regulation is better than none in a changing political climate.
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The event itself now has political undertones, given the current administration's rethinking of national parks, and its interest in deregulating the oil and gas extraction on public lands.
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But this experiment deregulating every single-family zoned parcel to allow small apartments has attracted developers, investors and speculators to snatch up the least expensive houses for demolition.
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In 2000 and 2001, California was roiled by blackouts, soaring electricity rates and the bankruptcy of PG&E after the state made missteps in deregulating the power industry.
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J-51, a housing program that grants tax breaks to landlords of rental apartments who make certain repairs, prohibits landlords from deregulating apartments while receiving the tax benefits.
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Critics say deregulating the media industry will lead to extreme consolidation, paving the way for media giants such as the Sinclair Broadcast Group to monopolize local news organizations.
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While Washington focuses on this scandal, the administration has been moving ahead with some pretty big initiatives -- including deregulating huge swaths of the economy -- that bring Republicans great delight.
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And his policy agenda, as far as we can tell, consists largely of unpopular causes like cutting taxes on millionaires, deregulating banks, and stripping millions of their health insurance.
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He said Bahrain had had a "head start" on diversifying its economy, having started its diversification process in the 1960s and 1970s by diversifying into, and deregulating, various industries.
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The Trump administration has been hell-bent on expanding and deregulating the offshore oil industry from its earliest days, but has faced strong opposition and roadblocks from coastal states.
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The decision in Albany would bar landlords from their current practice of deregulating rent-stabilized apartments after rents hit a certain point so that they can charge market rates.
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The federal government began deregulating the trucking industry in the 1970s and 1980s, making it easier for new businesses to haul freight without seeking government approval for new routes.
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In April, the FCC voted in favor of deregulating the $45 billion business data services (BDS) market, which allows companies to transmit large amounts of data over special lines.
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"Deregulating some of the largest banks in the country will make the financial system less safe, less stable and less protected from another crash," said Kelleher in a statement.
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Pruitt's personal loyalty to Trump, his effectiveness in deregulating industry, his true-blue commitment to the conservative cause helped him keep his job for far longer than many expected.
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Unfortunately, instead of deregulating fuel choice and benefiting the environment, the Trump administration recently rejected a modest staff proposal to cut the conventional ethanol mandate by less than five percent.
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And Pai, soon tapped as the FCC's new GOP chairman, set his sights on deregulating the cable, wireless and broadcasting industries — with net neutrality as one of his early targets.
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In fact, a recent analysis by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a libertarian think tank, found that Trump is deregulating the economy at a pace no other president ever has.
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Mr. Carter pushed through three comprehensive energy bills that laid the foundation for America's energy security today by deregulating natural gas and crude oil, stressing conservation and supporting alternative energy.
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Texas, for instance, has more wind power than any other state, largely a product of deregulating the utility market, but also of subsidies from the federal government and tax credits.
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Deregulating the financial sector is not about removing shackles on a financial industry that is in fact already thriving, but rather an attempt to curry favor with the wealthiest donors.
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He has also been an aggressive advocate for deregulating campaign finance law, succeeding in the 21994 Cromnibus by inserting a rider to significantly raise limits on direct giving to party committees.
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Yet the party's MPs and members are strongly pro-EU and see Brexit as central to a Tory policy that aims also at cutting social welfare, deregulating and reducing workers' rights.
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At a time when too many hard-working American families are still recovering from the devastating impact of the 28500 financial crash, deregulating Wall Street's biggest firms again makes no sense.
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Why it matters: Carr is the newest member of a Republican majority at the FCC that has been methodically deregulating the communications industry, which has implications for tech, media and telecom.
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The country began deregulating its airline industry in the late 1990s in the hope of providing for the sort of fast, low-cost travel that might help bind its islands together.
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"A lot of people think they're deregulating and that they're saying, 'F--- it, we don't like your [economic] model,'" said an EU official who helps coordinate the European Commission's negotiating position.
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Cost of College On Tuesday, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, would lead a Trump administration task force charged with deregulating American higher education.
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For some, he is the worst ever; for others, he is a hero for breaking the mold of Washington as usual, for deregulating, for appointing judges in a particular Federalist Society mold.
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Mr. Wheeler has frequently pointed to the fact that greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 2.7 percent between 2016 and 2017 as proof that the Trump administration is protecting the environment while deregulating.
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Today, speaking before a meeting with pharmaceutical executives, Trump hinted at how he'd do that — through a still-hazy combination of lowering taxes, ramping up competition, and deregulating the drug approval process.
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"People thought that he was going to be more open to deregulating or rolling back some of the Dodd-Frank rules, and he may be, but we haven't seen that yet," he said.
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But the U.S. Department of Justice wants to stop the law in its tracks, arguing that it creates burdensome, anti-consumer requirements that go against the federal government's approach of deregulating the Internet.
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"I think they're solely devoted to deregulating, to repealing public health protections, not putting any new ones on," Betsy Southerland, a former Environmental Protection Agency employee who oversaw the water office, told CNN.
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Cutting back the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, re-deregulating derivatives, restoring the full power of lenders to make imprudent mortgage loans while retaining no responsibility for them do not poll well.
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Over 108 seconds, it contrasts the highlights of the Obama-Biden years with the menial successes of Buttigieg's mayoralty, cutting between Biden's work on the Iran nuclear deal and Buttigieg deregulating pet chip scanners.
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And yet the recent focus now is on harmful drilling practices, at the exact moment that Trump is deregulating the EPA and now, signaling that he wants to scale back protections on national lands.
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The inclusion of Chinese stocks into MSCI's emerging market benchmark has increased the urgency of further deregulating the derivative market, because foreign investors have long complained over the lack of hedging tools in China.
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The inclusion of Chinese stocks in MSCI's emerging market benchmark has increased the urgency of further deregulating the derivative market, because foreign investors have long complained over the lack of hedging tools in China.
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This is an instance of the current FCC deregulating telecom and media entities under the theory that that stripping away regulations on traditional companies will help them keep up with their Silicon Valley competitors.
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" Trevor Noah on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show": "Just to give you an idea of how far away America is from actual gun control, this week Congress is going to vote on deregulating gun silencers.
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No matter what ultimately happens with ObamaCare in the courts, the focus on extending market forces and deregulating health care with a goal toward improving quality and choice is refreshing to doctors, hospitals, and patients.
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The approach seems to appeal to both conservatives (by deregulating an industry that currently restricts hearing aid sales to audiology practices) and to liberals (by extending an aspect of health care to many more people).
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The liberal senator annoyed some of her more centrist colleagues in the Senate this week with a tweet attacking several Democrats who joined with Republicans on a bill deregulating some of the country's largest banks.
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Trump ran on a platform of deregulating the American fossil fuel sector, and in a March executive order, he rescinded Obama's methane action plan and set the stage for repealing the individual regulations under it.
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The bill would raise the enhanced oversight threshold to $2628 billion, effectively deregulating 28503 of the 22019 biggest banks in the United States, accounting for nearly one-sixth of the assets in the banking sector.
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Republicans in Washington — having funded the government for six months, passed their tax law, and failed to repeal Obamacare — have an opening ahead of the 2018 midterm elections for another top priority: deregulating the administrative state.
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His hope is that by deregulating internet providers and removing restrictions on business models, like the creation of fast and slow lanes, ISPs will have more incentive to build out their networks and reach new customers.
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President Trump, who has never been particularly invested in health care policy, will be happy to drop that issue so he can go on to deregulating and cutting taxes -- issues nearer and dearer to his heart.
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Schaeuble said on Tuesday he would try to dissuade Mnuchin from deregulating the financial markets after U.S. President Donald Trump had ordered reviews of major banking rules that were put in place after the financial crisis.
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" Dennis Kelleher, president of the pro-reform group Better Markets, asserted that "deregulating some of the largest banks in the country will make the financial system less safe, less stable and less protected from another crash.
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If the bill turns into law, it would greatly benefit tech giants like Apple and Microsoft, which have billions of dollars stashed outside the U.S. Financials, meanwhile, have benefited from the possibility of deregulating the sector.
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Whether that means deregulating Wall Street banks or power plants, Trump has been pretty clear that he wants the government to leave businesses alone (hence, the two-for-one rule he instituted shortly after his inauguration).
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Her shtick is to update Mrs Thatcher's freedom agenda for a populist age: continue with the Thatcherite policies of deregulating markets and encouraging competition but also put a heavy emphasis on the gig economy and social liberalism.
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Since winning the presidency, Trump has pursued a hard-right Republican agenda, with mixed success: nominating conservative judges, cutting taxes for the rich, deregulating the financial and fossil fuel industries, repealing Obamacare, and disengaging from international agreements.
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The Senate bill would raise the threshold five times, from $50 to $250 billion, effectively deregulating 25 of the 38 biggest banks in the U.S., which account for nearly one-sixth of assets in the banking sector.
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Deregulating the insurance market so healthy people could pay less for skimpier, higher-deductible care at the expense of their older, sicker neighbors — many of whom would now be uninsurable again — was not what people were asking for.
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"The unintended consequences [of deregulating] would require so much wisdom on the part of the people making the changes to be staggering," says Dan Spyker, a former medical officer for the FDA's Pilot Drug and deputy division director.
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Heyne criticized Heller for what he called "a storied history of irresponsible votes and co-sponsorships," citing his votes against gun control measures in 2013 and his co-sponsorship this year of bills deregulating suppressors and concealed firearms.
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Mr. Hasen said he would not be surprised if Mr. Trump made the pick himself, especially because his White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, was an election commissioner himself and has pushed fiercely for deregulating campaign finance.
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Policymakers from both parties have proposed a wealth of policy instruments to achieve this, including deregulating the prescribing of medications to treat addiction, removing barriers to funding inpatient treatment facilities, and delivering treatment to vulnerable populations like prisons.
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"We have had a long history of deregulating our financial system, so there is a strong reluctance to start regulating banks with lending restrictions or interest rate caps," said Hewson, a former leader of the ruling Liberal Party.
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"He's deregulating many areas of American life," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton, who compared Trump's ability to change America in the face of an existential legal threat to another notorious president's.
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"If this bill were enacted financial services regulators would be forced to spend more time and resources on backward looking reviews and deregulating the financial services industry rather than strengthening protections for consumers and the economy," she said. Rep.
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You could eliminate the lines by creating a new federal regulatory framework that would apply in all 50 states, or you could eliminate the lines by in effect deregulating the insurance industry everywhere, leaving people with no consumer protection.
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Following an FCC meeting on Thursday, during which Pai pushed through rules deregulating the business data services market, he told reporters that he had been visiting with tech companies in Silicon Valley to solicit their input on the issue.
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They were so focused on undoing the Affordable Care Act, banning Muslims, instituting tax cuts, and deregulating our economy once again that they turned a blind eye to the rise of Nazis and white nationalism within their own party.
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And while it's still an expensive and pretty speculative technology, Trump has shown that he's not interested in balancing relief for out-of-work coal miners with environmental protection—he's deregulating quickly and defunding the energy industries of the future faster.
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While it's unlikely members of Congress will take swift action, if any, on a safe harbor, the Trump administration generally supports deregulating legacy industries — like broadcast and telecom — to empower them to compete with tech firms that have traditionally avoided regulation.
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Whoever represents the U.S. will reportedly argue that the nation has made progress in reducing carbon dioxide emissions even though Trump withdrew the country from the Paris climate agreement and has taken countless steps toward deregulating the fossil fuel industry.
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If Mr. Trump's strategy to keep jobs in America relies on busting unions, keeping wages down, deregulating everything in sight and cutting taxes for the wealthy, he'll certainly fail, and in the process he'll undermine the foundations of American democracy.
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This insight lay behind many of the Clintonian instincts that Democrats, looking back, now find unforgivable: interrupting the campaign to fly back to Arkansas and oversee the execution of Ricky Ray Rector; tough-on crime sentencing; deregulating Wall Street and cutting welfare spending.
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The fruit of the laissez-faire approach—deregulating the private market and hoping that, with enough new construction, affordability will trickle down—can be seen, they suggest, in the hundreds of thousands of Americans doubled up or living in shelters and tent cities.
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Within their own ranks, Republicans remain divided on fundamental questions of policy -- whether to change how Medicaid is financed, whether there should to be tax credits to help low-income Americans afford private insurance, and how far to go in deregulating the marketplace.
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They are determined to destroy unions and stop the most significant obstacle they face to concentrating wealth, privatizing public services and schools and deregulating worker and environmental protections, and Janus is not the only victory anti-union forces have had this year.
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Pelosi, a staunch environmentalist, suggested Wheeler will prove more effective than Pruitt when it comes to deregulating environmental safeguards — a dynamic she says will only heighten the threat to clean air, clean water and other public safety concerns governed by the EPA.
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Yet, a cause for optimism was highlighted by Swiss investment bank UBS in a note published last week in which the authors drew attention to a newly released report from the U.S. Treasury which details President Trump's plans for deregulating the financial sector.
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"The President feels as though Scott Pruitt has done a really good job with deregulating the government, to allow for a thriving economy, that's important to him, but these things matter to the President as well, and he's looking into those," Gidley said.
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"Since Yellen seemed to attack Trump about regulation, deregulating, and since Gary Cohn attacked Trump publicly over the Charlottesville mess, those two which were the frontrunners are no longer the frontrunners in this worldwide betting poll," he said, referencing the Predictive betting market.
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Pelosi, a staunch environmentalist, suggested Adnrew Wheeler will prove more effective than Pruitt when it comes to deregulating environmental safeguards -- a dynamic she says will only heighten the threat to clean air, clean water and other public safety concerns governed by the EPA.
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His business model was based on pushing people out of rent-regulated apartments and deregulating those units to collect much higher rents — demonstrating how rent regulations have been gutted in New York, putting affordable apartments far out of reach for average New Yorkers.
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"If Mr. Trump's strategy to keep jobs in America relies on busting unions, keeping wages down, deregulating everything in sight and cutting taxes for the wealthy, he'll certainly fail, and in the process he'll undermine the foundations of American democracy," he warned.
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And instead of deregulating immigration to make it easier for businesses (as the agenda does in other respects), the Freedom Caucus targets high-skilled immigration to the US — echoing the "pro–American worker" stance of President-elect Trump and Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions.
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Big picture: This would be the most significant overhaul of education policy in years, deregulating parts of the industry and adding incentives for universities to ensure students graduate with skills that will land them a job and promoting other educational paths besides traditional universities.
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Jeff Hunt, the director of the Centennial Institute, a policy research group at Colorado Christian University, said he thought the measure could pass, since no one systematically campaigned against it — but people might also be wary of deregulating too many drugs at the same time.
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That includes advocating for the repeal of Obamacare, rescinding rights for trans youth and trans military personnel, killing net neutrality, deregulating environmental protections in favor of the fossil fuel industry, rolling back reproductive health care, banning muslims and backing out of the Paris climate agreement.
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"What we've really gotten is more directional conversation: One party talking about affordable housing, the other party talking about deregulating a financial market that seems to have largely seized up," said Rick Sharga, executive vice president of Ten-X, an online real estate marketplace for investors.
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While President Trump has accomplished a lot in his first 100 days when it comes to deregulating the economy through executive action and challenging the legitimacy of government institutions -- part of Steve Bannon's mission to "deconstruct the administrative state" -- the legislative front has just sounded like crickets.
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The European Commission has published wide-ranging proposals, such as allowing price spikes at moments of scarcity and deregulating prices at the retail level, measures to prevent blackouts and clearer rules on cyber-security and the smartening of power grids, and more interconnection between EU states.
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In the Senate, the insurance industry proved relatively easy for McConnell to buy off, and even though other industry groups formally opposed the bill, they didn't go to war over it because they fundamentally like the idea of tax cutting, deregulating, business-friendly Republicans in power.
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Supporters of the repeal say that deregulating the industry will allow for more competition between internet service providers and will decrease costs overall, but opponents of the move are concerned that the FCC's move will cause a higher level of inequality when it comes to internet access.
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Those decisions are probably secure for now, but a newly empowered conservative majority is likely to continue the signature projects of the Roberts court: deregulating campaign finance law, allowing states to limit voting, expanding gun rights and viewing race-conscious decisions by the government with skepticism.
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With united government and a rightward GOP, he will be under intense pressure to move forward with the most radical elements of his agenda: a draconian immigration crackdown, rolling back regulations on climate change, regressive tax cuts, deregulating the financial sector, harsh national security measures targeting Muslims and more.
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The government pays lip service to this, and indeed some reforms point in the right direction: it is deregulating interest rates; the exchange rate, though still managed, is more flexible; defaults are chipping away at the notion that the state will guarantee every investment, no matter how foolish.
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Walsh also told Insider he agreed with several of Trump's other policy positions, including his focus on nominating conservative judges, deregulating private industry, and aligning with the National Rifle Association on gun issues as well as with the administration's decision to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
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For decades, the dominant strain of the profession has interacted with conservative politics on a project both sides shared: cutting taxes (mostly for the wealthy), deregulating business, and aggressively steering government interventions away from helping the economically vulnerable under the argument that to do so invited "inefficient" outcomes.
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Anonymous might respond that the whole point of staying anonymous and staying in the administration is that the public should know that there are public servants still doing the people's business in the White House—if, that is, the people's business is deregulating power plants and cutting taxes for the wealthy.
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"Whether it's spending lavishly on luxury fountain pens or doing the bidding of the industries he's deregulating, I think the investigations need to be completed so that Americans can regain their trust in the safeguarding their air and water," said Mary Anne Hitt, director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.
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While the bill is intended to provide relief to thousands of small and midsize banks, the prospect of deregulating the financial industry has laid bare a fissure in the Democratic Party, pitting moderate Democrats who support easing bank rules against progressives who view the bill as a gift to Wall Street.
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"The president feels as though Scott Pruitt has done a really good job with deregulating the government, to allow for a thriving economy, that's important to him, but these things matter to the president as well, and he's looking into those," deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley told reporters July 2900.
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The Reagan-Thatcher revolution in the 1980s — deregulating financial services, closing down coal mines and manufacturing plants and hacking away at the benefits of the New Deal and the British welfare state — was regarded by many conservatives, on both sides of the Atlantic, as a triumph for Anglo-American exceptionalism, a great coup for freedom.
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Nevertheless, through their own inaction, congressional Republicans—who alone, through sheer force of numbers, have the power to delay tomorrow's vote—stand ready to cement Team Democrat as the official pro-internet party, yoking themselves in the meantime with Pai's spurious claim that deregulating the broadband industry will, somehow, benefit American consumers more than Verizon's profit margins.
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The point is that you can't understand the mess we're in without appreciating not just the potential corruption of the president, but the unmistakable corruption of his party — a party so intent on cutting taxes for the wealthy, deregulating banks and polluters and dismantling social programs that accepting foreign subversion is, apparently, a small price to pay.
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From the 1970s through the early 2000s, Binyamin Appelbaum recounts in "The Economists' Hour," economists played major roles in ending military conscription, deregulating airlines, cutting taxes, transforming monetary policy, dismantling the Bretton Woods system of managed currencies, reconfiguring and ultimately weakening antitrust enforcement, subjecting environmental and safety rules to cost-benefit analysis and unleashing the financial system.
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Check out a trailer from our new segment on the future of firearms in America, airing on VICE on HBO Friday, June 16, at 7:30 and 11 PM. Gun-reform activists said other measures—like expanding background checks or stopping gun sales to people on terror-watch lists—are far more important than deregulating silencers.
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But Trump's willingness to roll up his sleeves and get involved in the problems of one American community indicates an obsessive focus on boosting the fortunes of working-class Midwesterners — even as his administration's big-picture policy focus remains on deregulating Wall Street, enacting an enormous tax cut for rich people, and slashing spending on assistance to the poor.
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"We expect a much worse slowdown in the first half, followed by a more serious and aggressive government easing/stimulus centred on deregulating the property market in big cities, and then we might see stabilisation and even a small rebound later this year," Ting Lu, chief China economist at Nomura in Hong Kong, wrote in a report quoted by the Financial Times.
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Though lampooned as "trickle-down economics" in retrospect, this tax reform had a firm economic vision: The basic concept behind Reaganomics is that cutting government spending, deregulating the corporate sector, and reducing taxes would create a business-friendly environment that would ultimately support the middle class by encouraging companies to raise wages and hire more employees (the results of this assumption are shaky).
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