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A “Content Loss Ratio” for Cable Companies?

The sports network Versus, owned by Comcast, has been off of DirecTV’s satellite service for three months in a fee battle. More prominently, the Food Network and HGTV disappeared from Cablevision’s lineups in New York and New Jersey on Friday after ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Concurring Opinions,  4 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Comcast,  Cablevision,  Scripps Networks,  Oprah Winfrey,  Discovery Health

Rethinking CONventional Wisdom on State Hospital Licensure

If there is one aspect of contemporary health care regulation that conservatives have decried, it's certificate of need (CON) laws. These laws require licensure of new health facilities (and sometimes expansions of facilities) in thirty-seven states. ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Balkinization,  2 Jan 2010
Related Topics: David Leonhardt,  U.S. Congress

Revisiting CONventional Wisdom on State Hospital Licensure

If there is one aspect of contemporary health care regulation that conservatives have decried, it’s “certificate of need laws.” These laws require licensure of new health facilities (and sometimes expansions of facilities) in thirty-seven states. ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Concurring Opinions,  2 Jan 2010
Related Topics: David Leonhardt,  U.S. Congress

Will Obama Join the New Democrat Coalition on Financial Regulation?

A series of interesting journalistic takes on financial regulation have suggested that, after the hyperpartisan brawl over health care reform, financial reform may be a more bipartisan affair. For example, according to Alison Vekshin and Dawn Kopecki, ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Concurring Opinions,  1 Jan 2010
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  House Financial Services Committee,  Barack Obama,  Goldman Sachs,  White House

Judt on Conserving Justice

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so? We appear to have lost the capacity to question the present, much less offer ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Concurring Opinions,  31 Dec 2009

“Please Tase Me, Boss”

Recently Arianna Huffington and Rob Johnson proposed that individuals angered by bank bailouts move their money from “too-big-to-fail banks” to community banks. As Zephyr Teachout and Paul Volcker have noted, economic power can inexorably lead to ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Concurring Opinions,  30 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  AMD,  Arianna Huffington,  Rob Johnson,  Zephyr Teachout

Finance and/as the Real Economy

The finance sector is an intermediary — essentially a “middleman”. Like all middlemen, it should be as small as possible, while still being capable of accomplishing its mission. Otherwise it is inherently parasitical. Unfortunately, it is now vastly ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Concurring Opinions,  30 Dec 2009
Related Topics: James Galbraith,  Alan Tonelson

Updates on the National Surveillance State

I just wanted to draw attention to two articles describing the advance of the . Stephen Graham's pathbreaking essay "Surveillance, Urbanization, and the US 'Revolution in Military Affairs'" (in the collection Theorizing Surveillance edited by David ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Balkinization,  28 Dec 2009
Related Topics: National Security Agency,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Amnesty International

Recognizing Bottlenecks on the Net

Adam Raff’s editorial on “search neutrality” in the NYT today has already provoked critical commentary and schadenfreude. But I found the editorial both informative and compelling. Principles of search neutrality are bound to be more complex than the ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Concurring Opinions,  28 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Dilemmas of Domination: Google Faces the Search Neutrality Movement

Adam Raff's editorial on "search neutrality" in the NYT today has already provoked critical commentary and schadenfreude. But I found the editorial both informative and compelling. Principles of search neutrality are bound to be more complex than the ...

From FRANK PASQUALE, Balkinization,  28 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

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