That fall in confidence affected banks, the stock market, and the government and its regulators.

Globally, the health IT industry should not wait to be forced by government regulators into doing a better job.

First, both cyber security and financial stability are extremely complex topics with which government regulators can hardly keep up.

The accelerating speed of innovation seems to be outstripping government regulators capacity to deal with risks, much less anticipate them.

First, it does not require government regulators to decide how much individual assets are worth, because private markets value toxic assets.

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So government regulators and ultimately all of us are caught between a rock and a hard place. Regulate in haste, repent at leisure.

This poses real challenges for regulators.

Households, politicians, and regulators were also complicit.

Colleges of regulators, the supposed solution, are inadequate.

But what structures should regulators seek to encourage?

There was also bureaucratic resistance from existing regulators.

Regulators are typically not subject to those temptations.

Regulators may also have to revive old tools.

Certainly, the trend toward full service single regulators outside the central bank has slowed to a crawl (though Indonesia is consolidating regulators at present).

It remained entirely outside the purview of the regulators.

The regulators acquiesce because, simply put, they are afraid.

Regulators proved unable to forecast and prevent the crisis.

Regulators generally turned a blind eye to these suspicions.

But there is a risk for regulators and central banks.

The regulators called his bluff and forced him to resign.

But our regulators and politicians also suffered from intellectual capture.

Both regulators and clinicians who run trials have been criticized.

This is the point that the well intentioned regulators miss.

Competition authorities and sector regulators can coexist under various conditions.

We cannot merely rely on regulators to do the right thing.

That has been a grave lesson for regulators and central banks.

Regulators should insist that traded derivatives are homogenous, standardized, and transparent.

To enforce the statute, regulators periodically examine banks for CRA compliance.

So the mutual fund industry had the regulators all to itself.

Bankers everywhere will rush to read it before their regulators do.

Source Adapted from OECD, Relationship between regulators and competition authorities, 1999.

Some, such as vitamin D, have hormone like functions as regulators of mineral metabolism, or regulators of cell and tissue growth and differentiation (such as some forms of vitamin A).

Regulators have struggled with the problem for years without finding a solution.

As long as they manage their risks properly, regulators should be happy.

Moreover, only the regulators can examine the dossiers, which are highly confidential.

They established the system of ideas that bankers, politicians, and regulators applied.

In 1996, inconclusive clinical trials led US regulators to reject the drug.

Regulators have been wrestling with this problem for years, without conspicuous success.

Yet the intellectual left has gone to great lengths to absolve regulators, government lending mandates, and agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of any responsibility for the housing boom and the subsequent bust.

It remains uncertain, of course, whether the regulators would actually take such steps.

They rely on courts, legal frameworks, and regulators to set and enforce rules.

Regulators, bankers, and ratings agencies bear much of the blame for the crisis.

But, if the regulators were right, the French institutions would be more stable.