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Democracy & Technology Blog Even more venture regulation?

Bret Swanson
December 16, 2005
Economic Policy

My colleague Hance Haney mentions below a new IRS regulation that kicks in this month that will subject small start-up companies to specific accounting rules for stock options that could reduce the use of these important employee incentives. We should also call attention to new SEC regulations, initially meant for hedge funds, that could impose new reporting requirements and potentially even onerous investment clamps on venture capital and private equity. John Berlau of CEI has the story here…
-Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson

Bret Swanson is a Senior Fellow at Seattle's Discovery Institute, where he researches technology and economics and contributes to the Disco-Tech blog. He is currently writing a book on the abundance of the world economy, focusing on the Chinese boom and developing a new concept linking economics and information theory. Swanson writes frequently for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal on topics ranging from broadband communications to monetary policy.