The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. ECONOMY

The White House announces a federal investigation into the causes behind current high gas prices.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray explains why there’s really no such thing as “price gouging.”

2. PROPERTY RIGHTS

The Colorado state legislature kills a plan that would have allowed citizens to vote on the power of government officials to seize private property through eminent domain.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on why eminent domain seizures amount to corporate welfare.

3. ENERGY

California considers a windfall profits tax on oil producers in that state.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. on why talk of specific oil company taxes is generating a windfall of bad ideas.

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