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Today is my last day working at CEI’s Washington office. Next week, my wife and I are moving to the Chicago area. I will remain a CEI Fellow and work remotely.

Readers of this blog won’t notice many changes. I will continue to cover the same suite of regulatory, monetary, and financial issues I always have. I will merely be much colder when writing about them.

The reason for the move is family. We’re Midwesterners by birth as well as temperament, and much as we love DC, ten years away is enough. We’re looking forward to being closer to our families and, we hope, to starting a family of our own soon.

I would like to express sincere gratitude to all of my colleagues, especially CEI founder Fred Smith and his wife Fran, for whom I interned back when I was a grad student (and coauthored a paper). My boss and frequent co-author Wayne Crews has done as much as anybody to help build my professional career. Over the last year, I have begun to work closely with Iain Murray, and look forward to continuing to collaborate with and learn from him on a variety of issues. Lawson Bader has proven to be absolutely the right choice to succeed Fred as president, and CEI is soaring to new heights under his leadership.

It has been a privilege to work with them and all of our other colleagues for the last six years–and my privilege it will continue to be. Thank you all.

WordPress tells me this is the 2,000th post here at Inertia Wins. Thanks for reading, and tell your friends.

It’s year-end list season, so here are this year’s ten most popular posts:

1. Regulation of the Day 221: Miniature Golf Courses
   Federal mini golf policy is surprisingly detailed.
2. Regulation of the Day 212: Locating Your Newsstand
   New York City newsstand shut down for being located 4 inches too close to the curb.
3. Hurricane Sandy Begins
   Probably only made the list because of the awesome picture.
4. Regulation of the Day 91: Horse Floaters
   Rent-seeking veterinarians use regulation to put a long-time competitor out of business.
5. Stubbs for Mayor
   Fifteen years ago, a tail-less kitten named Stubbs was elected mayor of an Alaskan town. He’s still in office, and doing a fine job.
6. Lessons in Entrepreneurship: Lemonade Stand Edition
   Regulators continue to shut down kids’ lemonade stands, despite inevitable bad publicity.
7. A Rational View of the Presidency
   Short writeup of Gene Healy’s excellent new e-book, False Idol.
8. Regulation of the Day 223: Fred Flintstone Cars
   German auto engineer makes replica Fred Flintstone car; regulators forbid him to drive it.
9. Regulation of the Day 129: Droves of Animals on Streets
   Under DC law, it is perfectly legal to herd cattle down K Street and Pennsylvania Avenue — if you follow certain old-timey regulations.
10. Regulation of the Day 150: Toy Guns
    8-year old boy suspended from school for two years for bringing a toy gun to school.

This image might be faked. Not sure at this point.

The Eastern seaboard’s economy is being stimulated by Hurricane Sandy right now. Just thought I’d post a quick note to let everyone know that all is well so far at the DC-area Inertia Wins HQ. The schools, government, and subway are all shut down, and probably will be through tomorrow.

Mrs. Inertia and I are hunkering down and staying safe. We encourage East Coast readers to do the same.