An Access Advertising EconBrief:
Consumer Behavior, Risk and Government Regulation
The Obama administration has drenched the U.S. economy in a torrent of regulation. It is a mixture of new rules formulated by new regulatory bodies (such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau), new rules levied by old, preexisting federal agencies (such as those slapped on bank lending by the Federal Reserve) and old rules newly imposed or enforced with new stringency (such as those emanating from the Department of Transportation and bedeviling the trucking industry).
Some people within the business community are pleased by them, but it is fair to say that most are not. But the President and his subordinates have been unyielding in his insistence that they are not merely desirable but necessary to the health, well-being, vitality and economic growth of America.
Are the people affected by the regulations bad? Do the regulations make them good…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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