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...made enormous profits from—shares of Education Lending Group, a preferred student lender for their respective employers. The new Education Department regulations will ameliorate this anticompetitive state of affairs, but only to an extent. Among other things, regulations will prevent these educational oligopolies by imposing a minimum of three “preferred lenders” for universities. This is a step in the right direction. Enforcing a baseline level of competition will drive down loan interest rates that were artificially inflated by guaranteed business for lenders.Despite the benefit of such regulations, they weaken many state regulations. After...
...these changes in no way affect the mandatory minimum sentences Congress set in the '80s for drug trafficking. Back then, crack cocaine was associated with inner-city violence and drug-addicted babies, while the powdered version of the drug was considered yuppie nose candy. Congress cracked down so hard on crack that users who get caught with five grams of the stuff - about five Sweet'N Low packets' worth - get a minimum of five years in prison, which is more than the statutory maximum for simple possession of any quantity of powder cocaine, heroin or any other controlled substance...
...that's not likely to change soon. While the new guidelines may inspire Congress to reexamine the federal mandatory-minimum laws, no one wants to be perceived as soft on crack dealers. Thus most of the proposed legislation to equalize cocaine sentences ratchets up the penalties for the powdered version, rather than reducing them for crack...
...feeling, having just seen the minimum amount of campaigning, the minimum amount of interest, [is] that we may see a lower number than last time,” said Robert Winters, who runs a local political blog...
...want to understand how quickly the very rich are becoming very richer, don't read about hedge funds, alternative-minimum-tax revenues or acquisitions by private capital. Those things are boring. Look at the difference between the change in the average price of a restaurant meal in the Zagat restaurant surveys and the change in those singled out in its America's Top Restaurants 2008 guide. The price of the average restaurant meal went up 2.3% last year, while the average price at the places that make Zagat's top list went up 3.8%. But if you look...