The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. E-COMMERCE

Real estate company Remax announces the creation of an online database of homes for sale across the country.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Technology Counsel Braden Cox urges the state of New York to open the market for online real estate.

2. HEALTH & SAEFTY

A Texas jury awards $253 million to the family of a man who took Merck & Co.’s painkiller Vioxx in the months before his death.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller on the Food and Drug Administration’s response to drug safety scares.

3. ENERGY

Analysts debate the impact of the recently-passed energy bill.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the balance of sound policy to pork-barrel spending in the energy bill.

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