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In response to "Useless? It may not tell the whole story, but in finance, the financial and economic impacts would be the primary concern, not a useless one. -- nm" by TFox

The things I would find positive in government regulation generally wouldn't be whether the direct monetary cost of a policy resulted in equal or

Posted by TWuG Jan 28 '13, 05:34

better direct monetary benefits.

An example of my (perhaps flawed) thinking: Putting regulations on banks to keep them from selling mortgages to those who aren't qualified has the primary benefit of not putting people into houses they can't afford, which means fewer defaults, which means fewer disrupted lives. It might me possible to put a dollar value to that but the value of it isn't monetary. Disrupted lives have very important non-monetary effects on society and putting a dollar figure on those effects minimizes them.

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Well, as the link states, that's precisely the kind of stuff that other agencies do attach dollar values to. - TFox Jan 28, 05:38 3
- My complaint is that a dollar value has to be put on that stuff to make it "valid" as a reason to regulate. I think it is a flawed way of doing things - TWuG Jan 28, 05:45 2
  - The converse argument is if a piece of regulation would keep 100 people in their homes, but cost $50M to implement, it's stupid. - TFox Jan 28, 05:51
  - Everything can have a dollar value. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 05:48

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