The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News
1. GLOBAL WARMING
Fox News Channel announces an hour-long special dedicated to alarmist views on global warming.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell and others take Fox News President Roger Ailes to task for the network’s journalistically unbalanced approach to the issue.
2. ENERGY
The Federal Trade Commission subpoenas documents from oil companies in an investigation of alleged gasoline price manipulation.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. explains the economics behind high oil company profits on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.
3. PRIVACY
Protestors demonstrate outside of a New Hampshire Wal-Mart store alleging the microchips the retailer uses to track inventory are a threat to consumer privacy.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Jim Harper on why the radio frequency identification (RFID) tags being used are an unlikely privacy threat.
4. BUSINESS
Economic forecasting firm Global Insight finds that Wal-Mart’s business model has helped keep inflation low.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Donald Boudreaux on Sam Walton’s legacy of low prices.
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