The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. E-COMMERCE

AOL proceeds with plans to charge a “postage” fee for mass senders of email.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on the superiority of private solutions to the spam problem.

2. TRANSPORTATION

France levies a new tax on air travel to raise funds for aid to the developing world.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray analyzes a proposal to tax air travel to combat global warming.

3. FINANCE

Former Securities and Exchange Commission officials air the opinion that mutual funds are too heavily regulated.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: President Fred L. Smith, Jr. analyzes SEC mutual fund rules on CNNfn’s “The Money Gang.”

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