The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. BUSINESS

The Maryland legislature moves to require Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health benefits.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Zachary Courser on Wal-Mart’s critics and their motives.

2. HEALTH & SAFETY

The companies engaged in the takeover battle for medical device maker Guidant raise the stakes to $25 billion.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Gregory Conko on New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s self-serving investigation of Guidant.

3. ENVIRONMENT

The BBC reports on a study linking the decline of tree frogs in the tropics to global warming.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy debunks the frog study and looks into far more compelling new research on greenhouse gases.

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