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In April of 2012, President Obama signed into the law the J.O.B.S. (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act. The law’s intent and design was to make it easier for small businesses to raise money by easing their regulatory burdens both on …
In § 1502 of Dodd-Frank, Congress instructed the SEC to draft rules requiring public companies to disclose their use of “conflict minerals” originating in and around the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Coined the Conflict Minerals Rule, the statute …
Vanguard is the world’s largest complex of mutual funds, with over $3 trillion in assets under management, including $215 billion added in 2014. Vanguard’s main attraction to investors is its low costs. Profs. Freeman and Brown (2000) report that the …