The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News
1. ENERGY
The Senate rejects the latest attempt to levy a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. hosts a congressional briefing today on windfall profits in the oil industry.
2. BUSINESS
The success of discount retailer Wal-Mart is attacked in a new documentary, “The High Cost of Low Price.”
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Zachary Courser on why the charges against Wal-Mart are more of the same criticisms that the most efficient, innovative retailers have been weathering for over a century.
3. HEALTH & SAFETY
The Washington Legal Foundation releases a study on the threat to U.S. businesses from adopting European-style environmental regulations.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on why the U.S. should reject the regulatory standard known as the “precautionary principle.”
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