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the costs of greenhouse gas regulation
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Free Market Groups Launch BeyondBailouts.org
As the economy continues to adjust to the credit crunch, CEI and NTU partner to fight for real financial reforms, not reckless spending.
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LibertyWeek 12: Hard Times in the Heartland
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Cheney Diagnosed with an Abnormal Heart Rhythm
The 67-year old Vice President will be undergoing an outpatient procedure — an electrical shock — to restore his normal rhythm today at George…
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I’m Sorry, Your Candidate Is in Another Castle
The presidential campaign of a certain U.S. senator has just expanded the bounds of the political advertising universe with in-game ads inside popular EA…
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World Retreats from Energy Alarmism
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Private Jet Travel for Me, But Not for Thee
Steve Milloy and Neil Hrab, both friends of the Institute, have picked up on the amazing travel opportunity (mentioned in today’s…
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Is Iceland the New “Cuba of the North”?
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In Goldman Sachs We Trust?
In the current issue of the Capital Research Center’s newsletter Foundation Watch, Fred Lucas looks into the historically cozy relationship that finance giant Goldman…
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NEW VIDEO: Global Warming and Eco-Imperialism
Coming from the UK, CEI Senior Fellow Iain Murray knows a little something about the history of political empires. Today, however, we find ourselves…
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the presidential candidates’ views on the biotech industry
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carbon credits in the bailout bill
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FDA approval for “biogeneric” drugs
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CEI Criticizes Center for American Progress on Community Reinvestment Act
Washington, D.C., October 2, 2008—A policy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, today harshly criticized the supposed “myth-busting” of the Center…
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sports stadiums and taxpayer subsidies
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SEC accounting regulations
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BREAKING NEWS: Bailout Vote Fails in House
The House of Representatives just voted down the $700 billion corporate finance bailout, despite earlier urging from President Bush to push the measure…
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the elimination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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the collapse of AIG and the future of insurance regulation
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carbon dioxide cap-and-trade schemes
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Are There No Workhouses?
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CEI’s disaster insurance conference
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Al Gore’s ties to Lehman Brothers
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the federal housing bailout
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Pelosi’s Anti-Energy Bill Hits House Floor
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CEI & South Carolina Department of Insurance Host Major Conference
Washington, D.C., September 16, 2008—The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank often skeptical of government action, is joining with the South Carolina Department of Insurance to host a…
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CEI Launches YouTube Contest for Video Critiques of ‘World Car-Free Day’
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House Energy Plan Would Raise Gas Prices and Lower Domestic Production
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Kwame Kilpatrick’s Political Career, R.I.P.
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The Costs of Federal Regulation
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greenhouse gas regulations
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Appeals Court Rules on Federal Accounting Board
In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected a constitutional challenge to the Sarbanes-Oxley Public Company…
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Climate Report Held Following Exposure
A government climate change panel agreed, after an onslaught of critical public comments, to reconsider their latest report. This move, though likely only temporary, is…
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CEI Praises National Wildlife Federation Report
A Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market group critical of many of the environmental movements’ views on global warming, today endorsed…
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auto insurance reform
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CEI Video: Drilling Our Way out of the Problem
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Reform Needed at the Food and Drug Administration
Washington, D.C., August 14, 2008—In order to best serve the interests of the nation’s patients and doctors, the structure of the…
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LibertyWeek 3: Launch the Denial of Service Attack!
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Reason TV on Ethanol
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Video: Stop Kvetching About Exxon’s Profits
Our own Sam Kazman takes on the economic whiners who claim that ExxonMobil’s recently announced profit are “obscene.” If you’d like…
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Ending the HIV Travel Ban
The federal government is finally in the process of lifting the travel ban on individuals who are HIV positive. For many years, one of…
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Offshore Oil Drilling
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Hot: Paris Hilton on the Energy Crisis
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U.S. tech companies in China
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Barack Obama’s energy policy
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the FCC and net neutrality
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Congress Examines Burdens of Federal Regulation
Today members of the House Small Business Committee are hearing testimony on the burdens of federal regulation and the need for reform. Wayne Crews, Vice…
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FCC Stages Broadband Power Grab
Washington, D.C., July 28, 2008—The Federal Communications Commission is preparing this week to expand its control over how telecom firms manage…
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federal flood insurance
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Clean Air Act All Wrong for Greenhouse Gases
This morning the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be investigating the White House’s strategy on the regulation of greenhouse gases and, in…
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Sarbanes-Oxley accounting regulations
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the cost of federal regulation
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Burned Investors Call for Government Bailout
With the recent collapse of IndyMac bank in California and billions in losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac piling on top of the existing…
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Free Trade with Colombia Deserves a Vote
Congress should stop stalling and move quickly to approve the pending free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia, according to a…
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Cell Phone Termination Fees
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a Proposed Federal Fingerprint Registry
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the Democrats’ “Green” Convention
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Housing Bill Provision Harms Privacy, Says Diverse Coalition
Leaders of liberal, conservative, and libertarian policy groups – from the American Conservative Union to the American Civil Liberties Union – have banded together…
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Chuck Grassley Wants to Know What You’re Buying on eBay
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Senate Democrats on Energy Prices: Throwing Gasoline on the Fire
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Senate Rejects Energy-Rationing Bill
The Competitive Enterprise Institute congratulates the Senators who successfully defeated the global warming legislation sponsored by Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) and championed…
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Senate Should Say ‘No’ to Ending Debate on Energy-Rationing Legislation
The Competitive Enterprise Institute urges Senators to vote no on a motion to end debate on the global warming legislation sponsored by Joseph Lieberman (I-CT)…
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CEI’s annual dinner
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Green Ideology
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Is Environmentalism a Bigger Threat than Global Warming?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is proud to announce a provocative new book on environmental policy, Blue Planet in Green Shackles by Václav Klaus, President of…
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Tobacco Litigation
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Bush’s Legacy
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“Threatened” Polar Bears
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Global Warming Legislation
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“Politics of Pain” Campaign to Defend Patients’ Rights
CEI fighting for millions of Americans who live in pain because their doctors are afraid of being harassed or arrested by the DEA.
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Polar Bears and Global Warming
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Alaskan Reaction to Polar Bear Listing
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Biofuels Mandates
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Interior Declares Polar Bears ‘Threatened’ by Global Warming
Activist Empowered by New Backdoor for Cap-and Trade Legislation…
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Farm Bill Vote a Loss for Consumers and Taxpayers
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Farm Bill, signaling a major loss for consumers and taxpayers.
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Could Congress Cripple the Credit Card Industry?
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An Energy Bill That Puts Consumers Last
As prices for oil and gas rise to record levels, members of Congress have responded with an energy bill that, while ostensibly intended to…
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the Proposed Housing Bailout
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Ethanol and Food Prices
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Coalition of Free Market Groups Speaks out against Subsidized Wind Insurance
A coalition of free market groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is urging members of the Senate to oppose an expansion of federal insurance subsidies.
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New Video Series on Global Warming Skeptics
Global warming advocates have long argued that the science regarding human impacts on the global climate is clear and settled – that human beings are…
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The Bottom Line on ‘Earth Week’
Our good friend Tim Carney’s Examiner column this week connects a few very interesting dots – what, for example, does Alicia Silverstone talking about…
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Are Imports the Solution to High Drug Prices?
With the high cost of pharmaceutical drugs playing a central role in the national debate over health care, many policymakers have endorsed the idea…
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Environmental Disasters and Inconvenient Truths
In the new book The Really Inconvenient Truths, Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Iain Murray brings to light an especially inconvenient future: environmental activists…
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CEI Welcomes New State Insurance Rankings
Following the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s lead, the Consumer Federation of America today released its own ranking of state insurance environments. Washington, D.C., April 24, 2008—Following…
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What Should Forests Fear: Global Warming or Global Warming Policies?
Activists who fear catastrophic effects from global warming have long predicted that deforestation would be one of the many impacts. As the Senate Foreign Relations…
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Video: Railroaded in Denver
The Independence Institute just sent an email alerting us to a new video they produced on Denver’s local transportation authority and its history of violating…
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“Future of the Internet” at Stake in Senate
Tomorrow the Senate Commerce Committee assesses “The Future of the Internet.” Among the most controversial issues is proposed federal regulation of broadband network…
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CEI Celebrates Earth Day
On Tuesday, April 22, environmentalists will gather in different locations around the world to observe Earth Day, originally a 1970 teach-in on environmental issues.
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Bush on Global Warming: A Big Mistake that Could Have Been Worse
President Bush's speech on global warming today lays out a blueprint for slow motion economic decline. It legitimizes global warming alarmism and undermines opposition…
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CEI Takes on Unconstitutional Agency in Court
Today, as Americans scurried to get their tax forms into the IRS, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments about another agency that…
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Will Bush Flip-Flop on Global Warming?
News reports this week have indicated that the Bush administration may change its long-standing opposition to mandated restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions and endorse global…
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Beware the Angry Renter
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Capitalists for Capitalism
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New Financial Regulations Will Expand Bureaucracy
In a new study released this week, Competitive Enterprise Institute scholars size up the Treasury Department’s recent proposal to restructure the way…
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Will Global Warming Harm Human Health?
This week committees in both the Senate and House of Representatives will be holding hearings on whether global warming will cause future harm to…
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Charlton Heston, R.I.P.
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Tax Time: Giving ‘Till It Hurts
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CEI Fights Sierra Club Demands for CO2
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and more than a dozen other conservative groups filed an amicus brief March 21 against a Sierra Club…