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We’re All Screwed:

How Toxic Regulation Will Crush the Free Market System

Book Blurbs

In the aftermath of the great recession of 2008-2009 the call for revamped financial system regulations is deafening. In "We’re All Screwed: How Toxic Regulation Will Crush the Free Market System" the case is made for a rethink of basic regulatory principles. Comprehensive governance, Steve argues, requires an elemental rethink. Sort out financial products, a function of the degree of uncertainty that they carry. Regulatory aggressiveness should then follow, as the level of riskiness dictates. If you remain a fan of capitalism, find regulatory reform scary but recognize that things went way too crazy in the recent past, read this book. It offers up a plan that gives regulators a reasonable chance of dampening future excesses while at the same time keeping the baby as they drain the bathwater.

Robert Barbera, Chief Economist at ITG and author of “The Cost of Capitalism”

Those of us with companies positioned to be taken public are looking at possible IPOs in London, not New York. Why? Steve Boyko explains that the cause is overregulation that is strangling private enterprise. American entrepreneurs now labor under the strict supervision of an administrative state that looks more like the former Soviet Union than the land of the free and the brave.

Richard J. Bishirjian, Ph.D., President, Yorktown University

As the pendulum swings from under-regulation to over-reaction in times of economic crisis, why not move to a more flexible model? Firms, companies and investors are not identical--and one-size-fits-all standards are not the solution. This work makes the case for a multi-tiered approach that reflects that there is a real diversity of knowledge and risk tolerance in the contemporary economy.

Nikolas Gvosdev, senior editor, The National Interest

We are all painfully aware that our system of regulation constantly fails to provide the desired outcomes intended by those regulations. Steve Boyko clearly points out why and offers a new approach. Those seeking a more principled and analytic approach should give this book their full attention.

Richard Herring, former Chief Administrative and Financial Officer, InterAmerican Development Bank, Washington, DC.

With the experience of past policies failure, a new approach is needed. Steve Boyko has addressed the problem and the causes in a direct manner. His book should receive the widest dissemination within the Federal, State, Local, and Tribal governments, as well as within the academic community. Commercial enterprises would be well advised to study this work to stay ahead of the learning curve.

James Olson, Washington Think Tank

Having had to deal with a universe of healthcare regulation and the whole SOX debacle, which only added cost and likely had little impact on changing behavior, because a crook is a crook, I hope a least some of our Government Officials, Law Makers and Rule Writers will take Steve Boyko’s book to heart.

Allan C Sorensen, Retired. Former Chairman, CEO of Interim HealthCare, Inc., Director of Republic Services Inc. ( NYSE)

Steve Boyko makes several key points: 1) regulations need to be other than one-size-fits-all, 2) bubbles always take place, but they increase in frequency if regulations don’t affect the greed related issues of all parties fairly (i.e “We are all Skrewed”), and 3) SOX is an example of RULE WRITING, not GOVERNANCE!” This is an excellent book that addresses issues needed to be considered by Government Officials and Law Makers.

Taffy Williams, Ph.D - CEO of Colonial Technology Development Company, former CEO of IMCOR Pharmaceuticals,

former President & Founder of Inkine Pharmaceuticals

We’re all Screwed: How Toxic Regulation Will Crush the Free Market System

PRE-ORDER TODAY! Available in late summer!

You hear it all the time: “Think outside the box.”

But those who purport to protect us with rules and regulations don’t do their thinking inside comfy, three-dimensional boxes. They are stuck inside cramped, one-dimensional squares.

The world isn’t square. It isn’t even flat. It’s varied, fast-paced, and changing. You’re along for the ride whether you like it or not; the good old days got outsourced overseas.

Whether it’s the small-time thugs who make business owners pay for “protection” or bureaucrats who promise the masses rule-writing will cure all that ails, America can’t take it anymore.

In We’re all Screwed, financial regulation industry insider Stephen A. Boyko explains how creativity and three-dimensional thinking are the best tools for developing a governance plan. With input from top professionals and entrepreneurs in fields like finance, ecology, civil engineering, and health care, Boyko outlines a nonlinear, three-dimensional approach to governance that applies to almost any field—in any area of the world.

Boyko envisions a future where America can be a contender. He shatters the pretence of regulatory protection, explaining why linear approaches to governance never worked in any field—and never will. Boyko illustrates how entities meant to govern everything from stock market trading to education have created the false hierarchies, false protection, and false promises, saddling us with limiting, out of date, one-size-fits-all lists of incomprehensible, ineffective rules.

Enough is enough! There is a better way. Heeding Boyko’s advice is not the gamble; hugging outdated rules around you like the fuzzy happy gauze of pseudo security is the real risk.

We’re All Screwed builds and expands upon on ideas Stephen A. Boyko shared in a series of pieces for SFO Magazine. To link to those articles, click below:

"Better Fit for Best-Practice Governance," January 2009:
http://www.sfomag.com/article.aspx?ID=1281

Stephen A. Boyko

"Fit Regulation to Market Reality," April 2009:
http://www.sfomag.com/article.aspx?ID=1324

Stephen A. Boyko

"Think Before You Regulate: Choose a Better Model," May 2009:
http://www.sfomag.com/article.aspx?ID=1338

Stephen A. Boyko

"Think Outside of the Square: The Conceptual Age Requires 3-D Thinking," June 2009:
http://www.sfomag.com/article.aspx?ID=1353

Stephen A.Boyko

"Toxic Regulation: The Threat of Overreaction," July 2009, interview of Stephen A. Boyko by Russ R. Wasendorf Sr., publisher:
http://www.sfomag.com/article.aspx?ID=1366

Click here to download podcast of Stephen Boyko discussing We're all Screwed on The Gabriel Wisdom Talk Show! (Interview begins at 34 min mark) [19.7 MB]

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