Zephyr Teachout

Zephyr Teachout, a Nation editorial board member, is a constitutional lawyer and law professor at Fordham University and the author of Break ’Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money.

This Year in Taxes This Year in Taxes

Happy tax day, everyone! Whenever I log in to Turbo Tax, I think of Tim Geithner, and so I was trying to think of the other political figures who have made this year in taxes inter...

Apr 15, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout

What the Paulites Have Right What the Paulites Have Right

(1) There is nothing sacred about the Fed(2) Power is overly centralized in the Executive branch and thefederal government(3) Power is overly concentrated in agencies that are not ...

Apr 13, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout

Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize

Two days ago I wrote about introducing a new kind of scale-based antitrust. Before exploring some other structural reforms, I want to encourage people to join a nationwide demonstr...

Apr 9, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout

Trustbusting 2.0? Trustbusting 2.0?

As a friend of mine said to me last week, it seems the economic team advising Obama has an unfortunately limited imagination. This limitedimagination leads to a limited range of ki...

Apr 7, 2009 / Zephyr Teachout

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