Studies

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/29/2023

View Full Report Here Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and…

Deregulation

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/26/2022

View Full Report Here Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 06/15/2022

Executive Summary An Abuse-of-Crisis Prevention Act to reaffirm boundaries of politicians and the legislation they can pass has become necessary to the survival of limited…

Deregulation

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 06/30/2021

View Full Report Here Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/26/2020

Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and how they affect American consumers,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/13/2020

There have now been several layers of congressional rescue-and-stimulus response to the coronavirus crisis, and there will be more “phases” to come. Given partisan discord,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/02/2019

Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and how they affect American consumers,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/01/2018

Deterioration of checks and balances via regulatory overreach and over-delegation by Congress to agencies are central to most modern critiques of the administrative state. Less…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/18/2018

View the Full Report Here Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/13/2017

View Full Document as PDF Bureaucracy, rather than interaction with elected representatives, dominates the relationship of the individual to the government. The…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/25/2017

The burden of federal regulations on the American public reached a record $1.9 trillion last year. That amounts to a hidden tax of nearly $15,000 per…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 03/13/2017

With regulatory dark matter, there are tens of thousands of documents that agencies can use to circumvent Congress, allowing the federal government to inject itself into…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/14/2016

View full document as PDF President-elect Donald Trump has instructed members of his transition team to “develop a list of executive actions…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/13/2016

How the Next President Can Begin Rolling Back the Obama Regulation Rampage…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 06/27/2016

The Pitfalls in Quantifying Regulatory Costs and How to Avoid Them…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/04/2016

Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope and cost of federal regulations, and how they affect American consumers, businesses,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/18/2016

Regulators are imposing new restrictions on American businesses and economic activity through guidance documents, memoranda and even blog posts, with little oversight from Congress or…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/08/2015

Wayne Crews writes a preliminary inventory of “Regulatory Dark Matter.”…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/28/2014

Ten Thousand Commandments compiles scattered government and private data on the numbers and costs of regulations and about the agencies that issue them, in an…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/21/2013

The scope of federal government spending and deficits is sobering. Yet the government's reach extends well beyond taxation and spending. Federal regulations cost hundreds of…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/14/2012

The scope of federal government spending and deficits is sobering. Yet the government’s reach extends well beyond the taxes Washington collects and its deficit spending…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/03/2011

Runaway federal regulation represents the biggest threat to our economy today. To address the problem, lawmakers first need to define it and quantify its costs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 08/08/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Cost-benefit analysis has long been a centerpiece of regulatory reform proposals, with…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/15/2011

President Barack Obama’s new federal budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2012 seeks $3.729 trillion in discretionary, entitlement, and interest spending. In the previous fiscal…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 01/18/2011

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
• 01/18/2011

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
• 01/18/2011

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/18/2011

Liberate to Stimulate Index When it comes to our economy, how did we get into this mess and how do we get…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
• 01/18/2011

Liberate to Stimulate Index In 2010, Congress failed to enact legislation authorizing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enforce network neutrality rules.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 01/18/2011

Liberate to Stimulate Index Regulations are frequently anti-competitive and anti-consumer. They cost consumers hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Policy makers…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 03/18/1999

View Full Document as PDF Streaming out of Washington now are sometimes bizarre regulations covering, among other things; workplace ergonomics, flammability…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/08/1999

View Full Document as PDF The $1.77 trillion spending budget President Clinton sent to Congress February 2 tells just part of…

Regulatory Reform