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• By: Ryan Young
• 01/02/2014

Leading up to Janet Yellen’s Jan. 6 confirmation vote, the Federal Reserve recently announced that it will taper back its bond-buying program, known as quantitative…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/30/2013

74 new regulations, from non-toxic ammunition to shrimp electronic logbooks.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/23/2013

71 new regulations, from charitable donations to video programming for the blind.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/18/2013

The Food and Drug Administration recently banned 23andMe, a genetic testing service, from marketing its product to consumers. CEI Executive Director and Senior Fellow Gregory…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/16/2013

56 new regulations, from toddler beds to eagle permits.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/09/2013

95 new regulations, from mad cow disease to falconry federalism.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/02/2013

77 new regulations, from red porgies to homopolymers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/27/2013

Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini debunks scare stories about chemicals in your family's Thanksgiving dinner, from BPA in canned foods to naturally occurring pesticides in potatoes.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/25/2013

60 new regulations, from salamanders to beans from Jordan.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/18/2013

66 new regulations, from corporate mergers to dried bacteria.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/11/2013

78 new regulations, from toy guns to tires.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/07/2013

A new CEI study finds that the most expensive ingredient in beer isn’t grain, hops, or equipment: it’s taxes. Study co-author and Fellow in Consumer…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/04/2013

92 new regulations, from student loan paperwork to government employee travel allowances.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/31/2013

Iain Murray and I have a piece in today's American Spectator breaking down the new paper we co-wrote with John Berlau.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/30/2013

George Mason University law professor and Mercatus Center senior scholar Todd Zywicki discusses his paper, "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Savior or Menace?"…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/29/2013

Even if it is nominally independent, the Federal Reserve is arguably the government’s most important agency. It has control over the price system, the most…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Iain Murray, John Berlau, Ryan Young
• 10/28/2013

Full Document Available in PDF Janet Yellen is President Obama’s choice to succeed Ben Bernanke as the Federal Reserve Chair. Yellen is…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/28/2013

78 new regulations, from energy-efficient urinals to interstate turtle requirements.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/21/2013

Shutdown edition: 3 new regulations. Two Coast Guard safety zones and a catch limit for herring.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/17/2013

The next day or two will also be slow ones for the Federal Register. But then there will be a flood of new rules as…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/15/2013

Short answer: not much. Over at the Daily Caller, I go over some data from this shutdown, as well as the two Gingrich-Clinton showdowns.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/15/2013

Shutdown edition: 6 new regulations, from Basel III to bridge repair.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/14/2013

For the seventeenth time since current budgeting rules were adopted in 1976, the federal government is shut down. Seventeen years of relative peace have devolved…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/07/2013

113 new regulations, from drawbridge schedules to viticultural areas.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/02/2013

The Office of Management and Budget reviewed a grand total of 47 regulations last year, or a little more than 1 percent of the total.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 10/02/2013

When the news broke that the National Security Agency has been monitoring Americans’ communications, the Obama administration was reluctant to discuss if it…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/30/2013

80 new regulations, from bird hunting to fluted kidneyshells.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/23/2013

Senators Angus King (I-Me.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) are introducing a bill that would create just such a commission. Over at The American Spectator, Wayne…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/23/2013

76 new regulations, from pet stores to food containers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 09/23/2013

There are regulations for everything from restaurant menus to walk-in freezers’ energy efficiency. Almost no one denies that the nation’s economy is saddled with some…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/16/2013

61 new regulations, from banned avocados to sweet corn insurance.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/09/2013

58 new regulations, from foreign tax credits to growing dates in Riverside County, California.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/05/2013

Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton puts a scary new study about energy drinks and children into its proper, non-scary context.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/03/2013

81 new regulations, from “shared responsibility payments” to Segelflugzeugbau sailplanes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/29/2013

Have a listen here. In 2010, the FCC issued regulations to implement net neutrality. The resulting legal challenge is about to hit the D.C.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/26/2013

80 new regulations, from hunting migratory birds to grading avocados.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/19/2013

71 new regulations, from D-Day reenactments to bio-fuel usage.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/15/2013

Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner thinks the charges are overblown, and has ideas of his own for increasing competition.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/12/2013

83 new regulations, from sweet cherries to air.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/05/2013

82 new regulations, dairy import licenses to information sharing.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/31/2013

The USDA is temporarily suspending its magician's rabbit-license regulations "in order that we may undertake a review of their requirements."…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/31/2013

Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews talks about the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which is expected to pass the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/31/2013

The bill would add some oversight to a regulatory process that has far too little of it.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 07/31/2013

How extensive is federal regulation? The “hidden tax” now tops $1.8 trillion annually, an immense drain on innovation, entrepreneurship and productivity and living standards. Federal…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/29/2013

80 new regulations, from turtle-killing to felon financiers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/25/2013

The United Auto Workers union is campaigning to organize a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Senior Fellow Matt Patterson talks about his recent trip to…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/22/2013

68 new regulations, from Topeka shiners to room air conditioners.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/19/2013

A new cooling fan should arrive in the next two weeks. Until then, the super stop will be a bus stop like any other, unless…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/17/2013

Marty Hahne has put on children's magic shows for almost 30 years. USDA regulations require both a license and a written disaster plan for his…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/15/2013

84 new regulations, from apartment building energy usage to when truckers have lunch.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/11/2013

Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith breaks down the controversy surrounding this year's farm bill.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/09/2013

Over at the American Spectator, I show why an unintentional and unavoidable side effect of regulation is inflation:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/08/2013

78 new regulations, from energy efficiency standards for imports to the California Desert Grape Administrative Committee.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/02/2013

A new study by Warren Brookes Fellow Matthew Melchiorre finds that only 4 European countries out of 27 have actually cut taxes and spending.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/01/2013

80 new regulations, from school lunches to the legal definition of “ski area.”…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/26/2013

Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner discusses the TSA's lack of transparency and the scanners' ineffectiveness in deterring terrorism.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/24/2013

96 new regulations, from fireworks shows near water to handling FOIA requests.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/17/2013

93 new regulations, from tanning taxes to wine labels.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/10/2013

72 new regulations, from federal pecan insurance to avoiding collisions at sea.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/07/2013

June 7 is National Donut Day. General Counsel Sam Kazman is urging Americans to eat not one but two donuts—one for themselves, and one for…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/06/2013

Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner discusses a new CEI study arguing that regulations make passenger train cars unnecessarily expensive.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/05/2013

Over at The American Spectator, Wayne Crews and I marvel at how much the regulatory state has grown over the last twenty years. We also…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 06/05/2013

Twenty years ago saw the release of the first edition of Ten Thousand Commandments, an annual report that tracks the cost and scope of the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/03/2013

George Will's latest column highlights the main findings of Ten Thousand Commandments.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/03/2013

61 new regulations, from Cotton taxes to endangered Hawaiian plants.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/30/2013

The Food and Drug Administration recently announced plans to investigate, and possibly regulate, caffeine consumption. Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton prefers separation of…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/30/2013

In today’s Investor’s Business Daily, Wayne Crews and I make the case that one of the biggest obstacles to regulatory reform is a lack of…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 05/29/2013

Politicians from both parties routinely tout the need to roll back unnecessary regulations. But how much overregulation is there exactly? Most politicians have no idea,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/28/2013

The cost of government is far more than it taxes and spends. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s editorial board agrees, as they opined yesterday:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/28/2013

68 new regulations, from Potato Administrative Committees to Segelflugzeugbau sailplanes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/23/2013

I recently posted that new EU regulations would require restaurants to use factory packaged and sealed bottles of olive oil. This would put small…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/22/2013

The twentieth anniversary edition of Ten Thousand Commandments was released this week. Author Wayne Crews discusses the study, and how regulation has evolved over the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/21/2013

Over at the Daily Caller, Wayne and I briefly summarize of few of the report’s findings.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 05/21/2013

This week marks the publication of the 20th anniversary edition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the federal regulatory state, Ten Thousand Commandments.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2013

Starting January 1, 2014, any olive oil served at EU restaurants “must be in pre-packaged, factory bottles with a tamper-proof dispensing nozzle and labelling in…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2013

The Wall Street Journal editorial board weighed in this morning on the issue of regulation, citing a few numbers from the forthcoming 20th anniversary edition…

Regulatory Reform