And that makes your observation relevant?
This is the argument
Extending Deregulation
Make the U.S. Economy More Efficient
Robert W. Crandall
Summary
Since the 1970s, deregulation has succeeded in increasing overall economic welfare and sharply reducing prices , generally by about 30 percent, for transportation— including air travel, rail transportation, and trucking—and for natural gas and telecommunications. Few industries remain subject to classic economic regulation in the United States.
To help remove some of the last vestiges of such controls, the next President should:
promote full deregulation of all voice telephone services
oppose “network neutrality” initiatives for broadband telecommunications
that would interfere with pricing innovations designed to relieve network
congestion
within the electricity sector, support market reforms (such as real-time
pricing) and incentives for expanding or preventing overloads in transmission
grids and distribution networks and allow states to proceed at a measured
pace in deregulating electrical generation
promote competition among airports and privatization of air traffic control in order to improve the pricing of airport landing rights and reduce air traffic congestion
back “open skies” or “cabotage” approaches to international air travel and
allow more foreign investment in domestic airlines
Even more important, the next President should act to restrain government
> interference in markets that does not quite amount to classic economic regulation.
So, what do you have to say about the Brookings Institute?