The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. INTERNET

New Orleans announces the development of a free, city-wide wireless network.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: President Fred L. Smith, Jr. on what it’s really going to take to rebuild New Orleans, post-Katrina.

2. HEALTH & SAFETY

China confirms two new outbreaks of the avian flu virus.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Dr. Henry I. Miller writes in The Wall Street Journal on why we’re ill-prepared to confront a possible flu pandemic.

3. E-COMMERCE

Holiday sales climb at Internet retail sites.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Economic Policy Fellow John Berlau on the lessons e-commerce pioneers like eBay can teach Wall Street.

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