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Beware Fiscal and Regulatory Drag Stephen Moore talks about the approaching dangers of heavy regulation on the modern economy. http://www.cato.org/dailys/02-22-99.html

CAFRman This site provides a guide for reviewing the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) to determine whether governments are holding excesses of the taxpayers money. http://www.cafrman.com

Citizens for Voluntary Trade Nonprofit association opposing antitrust prosecutions of physician groups. http://www.voluntarytrade.org

Electricity Deregulation: Wired or Tangled in the 106th Congress's Committees? Discusses differences between restructuring as opposed to deregulating a heavily regulated industry. http://www.cei.org/gencon/004,01645.cfm

Power Elites & Monopoly: The Regulatory-Industrial Complex With references to a variety of sources from different points of view on the ideological spectrum, this paper shows how government interventionism and socialism are the politics of oligopoly and monopoly power, and includes notes and selected bibliography. http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/monopoly.htm

The Real Cost of Regulation Describes indirect costs of regulation, from the perspective "The damage done by regulation is so vast, it's often hard to see." Abridged version of speech delivered by ABC News investigative reporter John Stossel on February 20, 2001. http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/2001/may/default.htm

Regulation Cost Compliance Report Research showing trends of regulatory compliance costs in America caused by federal, state, and local government. http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/regulation.htm

The Regulation Home Page Regulatory studies, statistics, and information. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/

Regulation Magazine This high-quality magazine analyzes the effects of government regulation on businesses and private conduct. http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regultn-arch.html

The Telecommunications Act of 1996: A Commentary on What Is Really Going on Here An IT consultant says that deregulation hurts people, even though it brings down prices. http://www.watpa.org/telcom.html

Utilityregulation.com Find news, data, reports, and other information about the regulated utility industry. Contains links to public service commissions, state consumer advocates, the FCC, and other agencies. http://utilityregulation.com/