Superfluous Sarbanes-Oxley

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Author(s) John Tamny
Source National Review
Date February 20, 2006
URL http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/tamny200602200909.asp
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Quotes-start.png "According to the University of Rochester’s Ivy Xiying Zhang, Sarbanes-Oxley has cost “public company shareholders $1.4 trillion,” not to mention the billions of dollars spent on compliance. These numbers are once again the “seen.” What we don’t know is what investors lost when private companies stayed private in order to avoid the law’s draconian rules." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Act should be repealed on the topic Sarbanes-Oxley Act.