“No one brought Dodd-Frank down from Mt. Sinai,” said the worshipper of the Golden Calf.
“No one brought Dodd-Frank down from Mt. Sinai,” said the worshipper of the Golden Calf.
Footnote I’ve heard  hens cackling, and dogs snarling. But who ever heard of a hen s(n)arling?
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
UCLA Homepage
Curriculum Vitae
Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com
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The nastiest thing they could do is gut the CFPB by making it funded directly by Congress. That would be the next step for defunding it completely, or using the threat of it to keep the now-five-directors from doing things like going after mandatory arbitration requirements, or predatory lending.