Michael Malone, one of the top tech writers in the US, argues in the Wall Street Journal that “Washington is Killing Silicon Valley.” He argues that excessive regulation threatens the entrepreneurial role of tech startups – especially Sarbanes Oxley and accounting rules that require stock options to be entered as an expense on balance sheets. [...]

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Lawrence Lindsey, former advisor to the U.S. president for economic policy, either read the 700 pages of the Fannie-Freddie bailout or had a staff person do it – more than any member of Congress has done, he suspects. In the Wall Street Journal he offers a devastating critique of what happens when Congress has its way. [...]

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