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The Fed was created by Congressional legislation that now stipulates a “dual mandate” of price stability and maximum employment.
The proposed legislation would affect both “target” and “instrument” independence.
The proposed legislation is full of excessive and impossible requirements, and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives may not be able to pass it, even in modified form.
But if the Republicans hold a Senate majority after the next election, some form of legislation requiring a monetary-policy rule could land on the president’s desk.
That is why the new Fed chair, Janet Yellen, forcefully opposed such legislation in recent congressional testimony.
The Health of American PoliticsCAMBRIDGE – When the United States Congress approved President Barack Obama’s plan to extend health-care coverage to nearly all Americans, it marked the most important social legislation the country had seen since the 1960’s.
For, unlike diplomatic communications, which are generally an invitation to dialogue, legislation translates into a take-it-or-leave-it prescription, the operational equivalent of an ultimatum.”
As an editorial in The Economist recently concluded, “America’s political system was designed to make legislation at the federal level difficult, not easy.
Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren, and Charles E. Schumer have proposed legislation that would introduce a stay on creditor lawsuits until March 31, 2016.
The US component should involve a new, sustained campaign for clean-energy development that involves large and small companies, national laboratories, universities, and non-governmental organizations (a sustained and expanded version of the Department of Energy’s energy investments under Obama’s stimulus legislation).
After the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation was enacted in the US, and after financial firms’ capital requirements were raised and some of their riskiest activities limited, industry leaders announced that the battle had largely been won.
India Embraces the Welfare StateNEW DELHI – In recent weeks, India’s parliament, often justifiably derided for the frequent disruptions that mar its work, has surprised its detractors by passing two crucial pieces of legislation that could transform the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
In 1897, the House of Representatives in the US state of Indiana unanimously passed legislation that redefined the calculation of the value of pi , the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
The new members of his team were quick to distance themselves from some of the most controversial and confrontational elements of the Socialist's program, including proposed legislation that would greatly increase the power of labor unions, hurting Chile's ability to compete internationally and reducing its economic growth potential.
Chile's right can show that the skeptics were wrong, by supporting – better yet, by introducing – legislation along these lines in the next few months.
The legislation was not intended to ban derivatives, but only to bar implicit government guarantees, subsidized by taxpayers (remember the $180 billion AIG bailout?), which are not a natural or inevitable byproduct of lending.
And never mind that the Trump administration is utterly inept, or that last year’s tax legislation was the most poorly drafted bill in living memory.
Bush’s subordinates authorized methods of interrogation that led to torture, and his administration adamantly resisted legislation that would ban its use.
Private firms that have acquired public assets should be induced, through legislation, to recapitalize these companies.
At the start of this year, Norway enacted legislation that requires that both sexes be represented by at least 40% on all corporate boards.
Over the past years the configuration of the political parties and the election legislation have been repeatedly modified so as to suit the interests of the ruling elite.
Even if we set aside its masses of pork-barrel spending, and analyses that show it may allow more emissions in the US for the first decades, there are more fundamental problems with this legislation.
The Charter’s 12 precepts to guide stakeholders’ decision-making should be integrated into relevant legislation and regulations by the Lebanese government, Parliament, applicable regulatory agencies, and civil-society actors such as the Lebanon Oil and Gas Initiative.
The US Dodd-Frank legislation, enacted in 2010, did (weakly) cap the size of future bank mergers.
The first failing is demonstrated by the need for legislation to ensure that people in cars buckle their seatbelts, even though any rational cost-benefit calculation would indicate that doing so is the sensible choice.
The Real Danger of Global WarmingPRAGUE – I am surprised at how so many people nowadays in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere have come to support policies underpinned by hysteria over global warming, particularly cap-and-trade legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and subsidies for “green” energy sources.
One important aspect of this is the movement of federally mandated expenses (ie, expenditures ordered by federal legislation but paid for by the regions) onto the federal budget.
The catalyst would be amendments to the Brexit legislation now passing through Parliament.
Presumably, she will block any such requirement from being attached to the Brexit legislation in March.
Nevertheless, despite these signs of progress, we are failing to confront the magnitude of the challenge, particularly in the translation of global agreements into legislation and action at the national and regional levels.
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