The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News
1. LEGAL
An arbitrator is expected to rule today on a lawsuit brought by major tobacco companies against states participating in the multi-state master settlement agreement (MSA), to reduce their payments to states if their market share falls more than 2 percent.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Communications Christine Hall-Reis on the constitutionality of the master settlement agreement.
2. ENERGY
Crude oil prices rose by 15 cents to above $64 a barrel on Monday amid concerns over the political situations in Iran and Nigeria and the upcoming hurricane season.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on why talk of America being “addicted to oil” is misguided.
3. BUSINESS
A privately built rocket crashed and burned as it attempted to take off seconds into its maiden launch. Yet this should only be a temporary setback to private space flight—if government regulators don’t get in the way.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman and Objectivist Center Executive Director Edward Hudgins on how deregulation has helped private space flight—and could do the same for other industries.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To contact a CEI expert for comment or interviews, please call the CEI communications department at 202-331-22719 or email to [email protected].
To subscribe to this and other email newsletters, visit CEI online.
To be removed from CEI Daily Update, please reply to this message with “REMOVE” in the subject line.