With the FCC’s September meeting just a few weeks away—it’s scheduled for September 23rd—the agency has been under enormous pressure to make a call on how it will pursue its Net neutrality agenda. On the left, the loudest members of the activist class have urged the FCC to embark on a program of wholesale regulatory reclassification, shifting broadband Internet from a Title I information service to Title II telecommunications service
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FCC Will Figure Out What To Do About the Internet Later
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When the Congressional Budget Office released its early scores of what eventually became the new health care bill last year, it f requently included a caveat cautioning that, yes, the law could reduce the deficit if executed exactly as written.
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Will ObamaCare’s Medicare Cuts Work?
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports what’s been obvious to anyone following the deficit debate—that the deficit commission is likely to recommend Social Security cuts. But reporter Laura Meckler buries the lede: The AARP, the influential seniors’ lobby that one might expect to be the biggest single interest-group barrier to any such cuts, is now saying that it may be open to a deal that reduces benefits. As Meckler reports : Even before the commission settles on a plan, many liberals are vowing to block any cut in retirement benefits.
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Is the AARP Willing to Bargain on Social Security?
The University of Chicago’s Luigi Zingales has a smart post on what we know about how banker pay affects risky behavior—not all that much—and the futility of new European restrictions on banker bonuses. As Zingales points out, there’s no clear causal effect between higher banker pay and greater risk taking. Despite this, however, the European parliament recently set up a number of rules regarding how bankers bonuses can be structured each year, including a strict limit to how much of each year’s bonus can be paid in cash.
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Europe’s Banker Bonus Limits Probably Won’t Actually Limit Banker Pay
Should the FCC’s Internet policy seek to level the playing field between the big web content providers and their smaller, start-up competitors?
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Does Net Neutrality Promote Competition?
On the second part of today’s episode of On Point , Associate Editor Peter Suderman talked with fellow guest Jonathan Zittrain about what the Google-Verizon proposal means for the future of the Internet, and whether or not the FCC should play a role in overseeing ISP business models. Listen in here.
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Reason Writers On the Radio: Peter Suderman Talks Google, Verizon, and Net Neutrality on NPR’s On Point
As part of the new health care law, state governments are expected to enforce a host of federally defined regulations on health insurers. Just one problem: It seems that a number of states do not have the authority to enforce those regulations . Insurance commissioners in about half the states say they do not have clear authority to enforce consumer protection standards that take effect next month. Federal and state officials are searching for ways to plug the gap.
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Do State Governments Have the Authority to Enforce ObamaCare’s Insurance Regulations?
How far would you go to tell people to read Ayn Rand? For Nick Newcomen, the answer is measurable down to the mile: Newcomen drove 12,238 miles across 30 U.S
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This Country Has Ayn Rand Written All Over It
Over at AOL News, Reason Associate Editor Peter Suderman takes a look at the joint Google-Verizon Net neutrality proposal, the FCC’s current position of weakness, and how both could shape the future of the Net : Earlier this week, longtime net neutrality supporter Google teamed up with longtime net neutrality opponent Verizon to offer a proposed framework for the regulation of the Internet. The proposal would prohibit Internet service providers from discriminating on wireline networks—like cable or DSL—but would also let ISPs charge some Web content providers more for speedier service.
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Reason Writers Around the Web: Peter Suderman at AOL News on Google, Verizon, and Net Neutrality
Over at AOL News, Reason Associate Editor Peter Suderman takes a look at the joint Google-Verizon Net neutrality proposal, the FCC’s current position of weakness, and how both could shape the future of the Net : Earlier this week, longtime net neutrality supporter Google teamed up with longtime net neutrality opponent Verizon to offer a proposed framework for the regulation of the Internet. The proposal would prohibit Internet service providers from discriminating on wireline networks—like cable or DSL—but would also let ISPs charge some Web content providers more for speedier service.
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Reason Writers Around the Web: Peter Suderman at AOL News on Google, Verizon, and Net Neutrality
