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- verb Present participle of
overregulate .
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Examples
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Very light-handed regulation, together with expectations of bailouts, can lead to very risky behaviors and an excessive expansion of the financial sector, while an 'overregulating' to prevent crises will stifle economic growth.
Olivier Blanchard: Exploring Economic Policy Frontiers After the Crisis: 2010 IMF Research Conference Olivier Blanchard 2010
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Very light-handed regulation, together with expectations of bailouts, can lead to very risky behaviors and an excessive expansion of the financial sector, while an 'overregulating' to prevent crises will stifle economic growth.
Olivier Blanchard: Exploring Economic Policy Frontiers After the Crisis: 2010 IMF Research Conference Olivier Blanchard 2010
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A Kansas Senator says a proposal from the FCC would amount to "overregulating" the internet.
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They were the overregulating--they tended to overregulate.
Class War Stories 2011
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The economists also weighed in on a number of other topics, including inflation expectations, monetary policy and whether the U.S. government is overregulating businesses.
Economists Split Over Path Forward Michael R. Crittenden 2011
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But I would be careful about overregulating the Internet.
Don Tapscott: G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing Don Tapscott 2011
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But I would be careful about overregulating the Internet.
Don Tapscott: G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing Don Tapscott 2011
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"You've got some very innovative thinking, I think, in government in America," Mr. Branson says, with officials "realizing that to start a whole new spaceship industry, they need some flexibility and they don't need to strangle an industry at birth by overregulating."
Space: The Next Business Frontier Mary Kissel 2011
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But I would be careful about overregulating the Internet.
Don Tapscott: G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing Don Tapscott 2011
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But I would be careful about overregulating the Internet.
Don Tapscott: G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing Don Tapscott 2011
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