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# Regulation 

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Because the sources and targets of regulation are diverse, the language complex and often opaque, and the volume overwhelming, much regulatory activity escapes public notice and debate with little discussion of costs or alternative methods for achieving the same ends. Our immediate purpose is to provide information and analysis about specific issues. Our longer-range goal is to make regulation as sensible, cost-effective, and least restrictive as possible.

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