Occasionally, even corporations themselves will charge that regulators have been captured. Telecom, cable, and broadband companies recently griped that they don’t get a fair shake from the Federal ...

WASHINGTON — The Democratic majority in the Senate had one more go at the big banks before turning over the gavels to Republicans with a pair of hearings targeting bank activity in commodities on one ...

North Carolina’s Dental Practice Act (“Act”) created a State Board of Dental Examiners (“Board”) to regulate the practice of dentistry. The Act provided that six of the Board’s members were dentists ...

The Federal Reserve Board should take more aggressive steps to prevent regulatory capture in the supervision of the nation’s largest banks, according to a top government watchdog. Processing Content ...

This American Life’s broadcast of recordings made by a former New York Fed employee has generated a wave of interest in the issue of regulatory capture of the Fed, a sort of “Stockholm Syndrome” that ...

In a report by the Project on Government Oversight in 2013, more than 400 SEC alumni said they filed roughly 2,000 disclosures forms on behalf of another client rather than the SEC. (D. Ramey Logan / ...

Regulatory capture is a phrase that refers to industry groups gaining control over the public regulatory bodies responsible for regulating their industry. It’s going to become an increasingly ...

Regulatory capture is a well-known phenomenon to economists and policy wonks. Agencies designed to oversee an industry can be co-opted by businessmen to further the aims of the industry rather than ...

One day, a horrendous mass shooting takes place at a supermarket, a school classroom or a hospital, and we ask why? Politicians rant and rave, pundits endlessly blather on, fingers are pointed at race ...