An interesting summary of an issue well-known to smart regulators: the tendency of all bureaucracies to secrete new regulation, and the difficulty of curbing that trend, by great expert Patrick McLaughlin, co-creater of RegData. Also note the creation in Kansas of an "office of the Repealer" as reported by The Economist.
McLaughlin suggests that RIAs made by regulators themselves will always be biased. This seems to run counter to the general wisdom that RIAs should be made as close to the real decision making as possible (of course subject to centralised quality control).
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