[chatter] good morning, everybody. It is a Beautiful Day outside, and you are all here to talk about regulatory policy. I love it. My kind of people. I am the Vice President and director of economic studies here at brookings. I am also the founder and director for the center on regulation and markets, which is a relatively new endeavor at brookings. Its goal is to improve regulatory policy through independent research on regulatory performance and process, and to host events like this where we can have informed debate on regulation, and everything with the word reg in it. There is a long tradition at brookings working on regulatory policy. Way back in the 1990s in my youth and im going to stick by that being my youth i was affiliated on the aei side with the joint study on regulatory structures. That center no longer exists. I want to start something up again, and lo and behold, here we are. It is a particularly opportune one to focus our attention regulatory policy. In recent years we
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