The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News
1. RETAIL
In preparation for day-after-Thanksgiving shopping crowds, Wal-Mart promises to match any competitor’s advertised price on any product in stock.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Zachary Courser on the motives of critics who charge Wal-Mart’s prices are “too low.”
2. FINANCE
General Motors announces plans to lay off 30,000 workers, under pressure from slow sales, mounting healthcare costs and pension liabilities.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Editorial Director Ivan Osorio on how the federal government’s corporate insurance program encourages companies to underfund their pension obligations.
3. CONSUMER INTEREST
Controversy over Sony’s anti-piracy CD software heats up with a lawsuit filed by San Francisco-based consumer group the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Technology Counsel Braden Cox and Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews on why new technology, not more legislation, is still the best way for companies to protect copyrights.
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