80 Quotes by Glenn Reynolds

The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.

Whether (Tyco's) life as a short-seller's clay pigeon has been the driver or whether the company's own inability to make the case clearly enough has been the culprit, (Tyco) now is in a major league quandary,

GMAC is in some ways both the instrument for preservation of GM intermediate term and also an instrument for GM to wield in negotiations with the unions.

Just watched Bush's intro, followed by the Leahy / Schumer response. Bush was smirking; he thinks he's got it in the bag. More significantly, perhaps, Leahy and Schumer looked pretty flat; they seemed to be going through the motions; I don't think they believe they can stop him. That could change of course, but it's certainly how it looks now.

I think the bill makes a strong statement and provides some backbone regulations on how U.S. Internet companies should operate in China, but it will be difficult to enforce.

My own take: Some of the nitpicking and complaining may well be justified, even beyond the inevitable dropped balls in something like this. But there will be plenty of time for that later. Right now, people should be focusing on constructive action, not point-scoring.

This whole process is part economics, part bankruptcy law, part ideology and part game theory -- but 100 percent painful.

Commerce and free expression on the Internet have flourished because it's available to everyone on the same basis. That's how it should continue to be.

The whole Street is sitting around waiting for confirmation of Dana payments.