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Government,
Administrative/Regulatory

Feb. 4, 2009

Adult Supervision

As the country regains its senses, expect a new economic environment where regulators regulate, inspectors inspect and litigators litigate.

Robert L. Bastian Jr.

Partner, Bastian & Dini

Penthouse Suite 9025 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills , CA 90211

Phone: (310) 789-1955

Fax: (310) 822-1989

Email: robbastian@aol.com

Whittier Law School

If a gambler revealed his strategy - to always bet the house against a hustler who says she can make a jack jump from the deck and squirt lemonade out his winking eye - you know how the story ends. He loses. Adopt his strategy, you lose.

Why? As long as there are people willing to profitably risk all against the improbable, there is an incentive for someone ultimately to make the improbable reality.

If, for example, two economic Noble Prize-winning economists revealed their...

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