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• By: Ryan Young
• 07/26/2018

Many trade-watchers are breathing a sigh of relief about President Trump’s meeting yesterday with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The result was essentially a…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/24/2018

As we’ve been saying ever since this issue heated up, tariffs hurt the economy. There’s no way around it. Seeing this harm, President Trump…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/23/2018

The European Union fined Google a record $5 billion for antitrust violations, and the president raised foreign policy kerfuffles with Britain and Russia on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/16/2018

It was an uneventful week at regulatory agencies, with a lower-than-usual 51 new final regulations, ranging from skin disability ratings to garage door openers. For more data,…

Regulatory Reform

• Ryan Young
• 07/11/2018

The Trump Administration announced new proposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods yesterday, escalating a trade conflict with China.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/09/2018

America celebrated its 242nd birthday on Wednesday, and new tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods came into effect on Friday. Meanwhile, during a…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/02/2018

It was a newsy week, with Justice Kennedy’s retirement announcement, along with some big Supreme Court decisions, including the Janus decision regarding public sector unions;…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/25/2018

Summer officially began last week, and federal regulators celebrated with new regulations ranging from almond kernel computing to rough diamonds.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/19/2018

With a possible party change in play this November in one or both chambers of Congress, the time might be now or never to pass…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/18/2018

Washington, D.C. has a $12.50 per hour minimum wage. But for tip-earning workers, such as servers and bartenders, the minimum is $3.33 per hour—tips are…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/18/2018

Angry allies, North Korea, and Chinese tariffs dominated the news last week. Under the radar, regulatory agencies closed in on their 1,500th new regulation of…

Regulatory Reform

• Ryan Young
• 06/15/2018

President Donald Trump announced today he will slap 25 percent tariffs on Chinese technology imports. CEI Fellow Ryan Young warned the move will backfire.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/11/2018

The president’s threats must be fought, but the good news is America’s fundamental institutions will withstand Trumpian bluster. For one thing, our economy remains a…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/11/2018

The week’s big headlines were about the G7 meeting and our allies’ efforts to avoid a trade war, and the meeting with north Korea…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/04/2018

A new 25 percent steel tariff and a 10 percent aluminum tariff have come into effect. The levies are aimed at our allies, such as Canada,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/04/2018

Despite a four-day workweek, federal agencies still exceeded the previous week’s Federal Register page count by nearly a hundred pages, pushing the yearly total past…

Regulatory Reform

• Ryan Young
• 05/31/2018

Today, the Trump administration announced additional steel and aluminum tariffs on America’s allies, including the European Union, Canada, and Mexico.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/29/2018

Agencies took it comparatively easy in the leadup to the long Memorial Day weekend, though the FAA and Coats Guard were busy with rules for…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/21/2018

It was a relatively slow week, with 44 proposed regulations and 62 final regulations, though the Supreme Court did rule the federal ban on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/14/2018

The big news from the last week was the release of the spring edition of the twice-yearly Unified Agenda, which lists all planned agency regulations…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/07/2018

It is now May, and still only one economically significant regulation (costing $100 million or more per year) has been issued this year. With the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/02/2018

While the president’s initial flurry of executive orders enacting some regulatory reforms was a pleasant surprise, the next president can undo them with the stroke…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/30/2018

Following in George W. Bush’s footsteps, President Trump increased tariffs on foreign-made steel and aluminum by 25 percent in March. But he exempted U.S. allies…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/30/2018

The number of new final regulations passed the 1,000 mark last week, with new rules ranging from sending mail to human reliability programs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/25/2018

Since any number with that many zeroes and commas in it is difficult for the human mind to process, let’s put it in a more…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/23/2018

The big news this week was the release of the 2018 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments. Agencies continued to provide fodder for next years edition…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

One of the lessons learned from this year’s “10,000 Commandments” study is that Congress needs to be more involved in the regulatory process. It needs…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

Eventually, politicians will be forced to get spending and deficits under control, but regulatory reforms are just as important to keep the economy growing and…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

Wayne Crews has ably documented the regulatory state for twenty-five years and running. But what will the next twenty-five years of “10,000 Commandments” look like?…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

Trump economic advisor and Death by China author Peter Navarro’s recent column in The Wall Street Journal, “China’s Faux Comparative Advantage,” is a…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/16/2018

The highlights from this week’s round of 36 proposed regulations and 72 final regulations range from licensing government inventions to the Department of Redundancy Department’s…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/09/2018

It may not feel like Spring yet, but regulatory agencies have turned their fancies to rulemaking, with 45 proposed and 70 final regulations ranging from…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/03/2018

With a full quarter of 2018 in the books, agencies have issued just one economically significant rule—an increase in State Department fees amounting to $115…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/01/2017

Common ground is nearly impossible to find in Washington these days. But with the Senate’s recent confirmation of Neomi Rao as the White House’s…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/31/2017

As the reality television drama in Washington continues to unfold, regulatory agencies pushed the 2017 Federal Register past the 35,000-page mark and issued 75 new…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/25/2017

As summer marches on, regulatory agencies issued more than 60 new regulations in the last week.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/17/2017

Regulatory agencies were plenty busy last week, with new rules in the last week ranging from Maine’s gas stations to hammerhead shark herd size.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/10/2017

81 new rules from the last week still range from work surfaces to spirulina extract.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/03/2017

A recent EPA rule for dental effluence caused some controversy for violating President Trump’s one-in, two-out policy for new rules.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/19/2017

New rules from the last week are as wide-ranging as ever, from dental effluence to reciprocating engines.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 06/13/2017

Reason covers the Secretary of Labor Acosta’s decision to eliminate independent contractor rules. Eliminating a set of Obama administration rules for independent contractors…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/05/2017

After a lengthy delay, several Obama-era rules are starting to come into effect, especially energy-use rules ranging from refrigerators to ceiling fans.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/15/2017

The number of new final regulations this year passed the one-thousand mark. While many of the new rules are delays or repeals of older rules,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/08/2017

Another droll week on the regulatory front, with new rules ranging from UHF television to restaurant menus.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/01/2017

While most of the week’s new final regulations are either routine or procedural, they still range from rural phone calls to airplane batteries.

Regulatory Reform

• Ryan Young
• 04/26/2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute supports the Unauthorized Spending Accountability (USA) Act of 2017, aimed at reducing and bringing transparency to executive branch spending. Ryan Young,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/24/2017

The Federal Register continues its slow march to the 20,000-page mark, but is still on pace for lowest page total since 1993.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/17/2017

The 2017 Federal Register had another sub-thousand page week, though it is still already more than 18,000 pages long.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/12/2017

With the Trump administration’s early emphasis on deregulation, there was hope that cronyist agencies such as the Export-Import Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and Economic…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/10/2017

Things remain slow on the regulatory front, with a large chunk of new rules being routine safety-zone and drawbridge scheduling regulations from the Coast Guard.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/03/2017

There were 63 final regulations and 28 proposed regulations last week, but again, few of them amounted to much. We’ll have more to say on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/27/2017

The Trump administration’s 60-day regulatory freeze is now over, but many of this week’s new regulations are simply extensions of previous delays. So despite a…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/20/2017

Starting this week, many late-Obama administration regulations delayed by the Trump administration’s 60-day freeze will come into effect.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 03/18/2017

President Donald Trump’s administration has been busy issuing a flurry of executive orders intended to reduce regulatory burdens on businesses that keep them from adding…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/13/2017

It was another slow week for new regulations, but busy times are on their way. A slew of delayed regulations will come into effect on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/06/2017

As the regulatory freeze marches on, most new regulations coming out are garden-variety FAA airworthiness directives and Coast Guard drawbridge and safety zone rules.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/27/2017

43 new regulations last week, from toddler beds to potato proteins.

Regulatory Reform

• Ryan Young
• 02/27/2017

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is slated to vote on H.R. 1004, the Regulatory Integrity Act, introduced by Congressman Tim Walberg (R-MI), and…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/21/2017

As with the previous few weeks, many of this week’s regulations were simply delays of previous rules.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/14/2017

Congress and the new administration have a real chance to make the economy grow faster, and to raise the labor force participation rate above its…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/13/2017

The White House regulatory freeze continues, and a wide range of recent rules, big and small, have been delayed until late March.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/06/2017

With the new administration’s regulatory freeze now in full effect, there were just 8 proposed new regulations published last week. This was the lowest figure…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/30/2017

President Trump's latest executive order on regulatory reform could be an important step in the right direction for reining in government red tape.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/30/2017

For the next few weeks, the Federal Register will likely have fewer pages and regulations than usual.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/25/2017

One News Now discusses regulatory reform under the Trump administration with Ryan Young.  President Trump also made headlines late Friday for a presidential…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/23/2017

The final pre-inauguration Federal Register was 1,464 pages long. A normal day’s edition is roughly 300 pages. Since there is a lag time of a…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/17/2017

In a mere nine working days, the 2017 Federal Register has nearly reached 5,000 pages; the midnight hour approaches.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/13/2017

Minimum wage increases have obvious winners, which is why they are so popular. Their tradeoffs are less obvious.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/09/2017

The midnight regulatory rush continues, with more than 2,100 Federal Register pages, despite a four-day work week, along with 51 proposed regulations and 52 final…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/06/2017

The Regulatory Responsibility for our Economy Act (RREA), sponsored by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), would help fix basic transparency problems with federal regulations.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/03/2017

The 2016 Federal Register’s record-setting page count ends at 97,110 pages—more than 15,000 pages above the previous record, set in 2010. The difference is more…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/28/2016

As the Obama administration heads into its home stretch, agencies passed new rules ranging from gloves to canned vegetables.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 12/27/2016

Federal regulators issue thousands of regulations every year. Decrees range from the Environmental Protection Agency’s gargantuan Clean Power Plan and “Waters of the United States”…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/19/2016

On Tuesday the 2016 Federal Register topped 90,000 pages for the first time ever, and continues to extend its page-count record every day.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/16/2016

Here are three they should pursue in the new administration’s first hundred days.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/12/2016

The 2016 Federal Register will likely top 90,000 pages next week for the first time ever.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/05/2016

As the Federal Register climbed above 87,000 pages for the first time in its 81-year history, agencies issued new rules ranging from landfills to movie…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/05/2016

The Daily Signal discusses the Obama administration's federal regulatory pace with Ryan Young.  The fact that Trump could overturn much executive or administrative…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/29/2016

If 500 workers are absent for several hours and it hardly affects a thing at the airport, then how essential are they?…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/28/2016

Thanksgiving week was a busy one, with new regulations ranging from potatoes to royalties.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/28/2016

Washington Examiner highlights CEI's work to track the federal goverment's current regulatory pace.  According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Obama's regulatory machine is on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/18/2016

On November 17, the 2016 Federal Register set an all-time record page count—an impressive feat for a document that has been published continuously since 1936.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/17/2016

Now that the White House will officially be switching parties, the outgoing Obama administration will likely pass as much of its regulatory agenda as quickly…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/16/2016

Bloomberg BNA speaks with Ryan Young on how the Trump administration and Congress can bring regulatory reform.  Trump himself has repeatedly promised to…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/15/2016

CEI released a new report today about the REINS Act, which would require Congress to vote on all new executive branch regulations costing more than…

Regulatory Reform