by Peter Suderman
July 13, 2006

The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Issues in the News

TRANSPORTATION

New orders for Boeing could take a toll on its European rival, Airbus. 

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Tim Carney, CEI’s Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow and author of The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, on the sales battle between the two titans of corporate welfare. 

CYBERSECURITY

After a year of search, the Department of Homeland Security has yet to fill a high level post managing national cybersecurity.

CEI Experts Available for Comment: Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr. and Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter on how government mandates hinder private efforts at computer security.

TOBACCO

Anti-smoking activists plan to pressure the movie industry about its portrayal of smoking in films.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter on the problems with the surgeon general’s report on secondhand smoke. 

Blog feature: For more news and analysis, updated throughout the day, visit CEI Open Market.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

To contact a CEI expert for comment or interviews, please call the CEI communications department at 202-331-2273 or email to pr@cei.org.

Blog feature: For more news and analysis, updated throughout the day, visit CEI’s blog, Open Market.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

To contact a CEI expert for comment or interviews, please call the CEI communications department at 202-331-2273 or email to pr@cei.org.