The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. ENERGY

Companies pour billions of dollars into ethanol production to meet demand generated by government mandates.

 CEI Expert Available to Comment: Journalism Fellow Timothy Carney on the federal government’s strange relationship with ethanol.

2. E-COMMERCE

The city of San Antonio sues several online travel agencies to collect local hotel room taxes.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: President Fred L. Smith, Jr. on why sales taxes have no place on the Internet.

3. TECHNOLOGY

Identity theft tops the list of consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commission.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews and Regulatory Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter (in a new study released this week) on the free market solutions to identity theft and data security breaches.                                                                            

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