Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 4th, 2013 While we tend to complain about the quality of air in New York, many things are being done that are truly effective in reducing harmful emissions. Aside from the electric hybrid busses, converting building boilers away from that black smoke belching oil, hybrid government vehicles, etc some… [Read More]
MORE OR LESS REGULATION? WHAT ABOUT SMART REGULATION?
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on October 8th, 2012 Both presidential candidates are arguing over regulation: Romney says we have too much and Obama says we don’t have enough. What about SMART regulation: efficient regulation that actually works? David Rubenstein, the co-founder of The Carlyle Group and the ‘king’ of private equity, made the point the… [Read More]
DOES THE "CORZINE RULE" INSPIRE "THE PINOCCHIO RULE" IN REAL ESTATE?
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on March 23rd, 2012 The recently proposed regulatory legistlation (The Corzine Rule) to be named after Mr. Corzine because his firm MF Global still cannot find where a few billion dollars went ‘missing’ made me think that maybe its time for us in the real estate industry to name some brokerage rules… [Read More]