Regulations at 'Lowest Count Since Records Began Being Kept in the Mid-1970s'
Economy advances while administrative state recedes; lefty commentators hardest hit.
Matt Welch|Jan. 5, 2018 1:15 pm
As the economy and stock market continue to chug along nicely, many analysts and presidents are giving at least partial credit to the Trump administration's aggressive regulatory reform efforts.
Unsurprisingly, this is driving some commentators insane.
"Trump's Deregulatory Binge Makes the Bush Years Look Like Stalinist Russia," runs the headline in The Daily Banter, a website that was "started in 2007 when Editor in Chief Ben Cohen got fed up with watching the corporate news not doing its job properly," and that further claims "not do viral content" or "trick readers with misleading headlines." (Cohen's misleading subhed, by the way, begins: "The Bush years were characterized by a deregulatory binge that saw deep cuts to virtually all aspects of government with little to no reasoning behind them," despite the fact that people who actually study this stuff will inform you that Bush increased the reach, budget, and staffing of the administrative state—including on financial regulation—at a far greater clip than his Democratic predecessor, while overseeing an eight-year government spending bender.)
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/05/regulations-at-lowest-count-since-record
