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• By: Ryan Young
• 05/06/2013

62 new regulations, from the federal flood insurance to California olives.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/29/2013

66 new regulations, from the federal Processed Pear Committee to desert buckwheat.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/26/2013

From adjustable headlights to going on strike over tight pants.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Matthew Melchiorre, Ryan Young
• 04/26/2013

Margaret Thatcher’s passing led many around the world to reflect on her legacy. In the United Kingdom, reactions ranged from fond remembrances by supporters to…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/25/2013

Every year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) releases a report on the costs and benefits of the previous year's new regulations. Wayne Crews…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/22/2013

86 new regulations, from sorghum ethanol to training miners.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/15/2013

67 new regulations, from drawbridge schedules to wireless signal boosters.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/11/2013

Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews warns that the higher the deficit goes, the more tempted the federal government is to resort to unfunded mandates,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/11/2013

In today's Investor's Business Daily, Wayne Crews and I point out that the higher deficits go, the more tempting it becomes for Congress to resort…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/08/2013

56 new rules, from school lunches to studying landfills.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/05/2013

Man avoids jail time for falsely yelling out "Bingo!" during a game, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/04/2013

Under the CFAA, it is currently a federal crime to enter an incorrect age on your Facebook profile or an incorrect weight on a dating…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/01/2013

100 new regulations, from collisions at sea to electronic forms.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/28/2013

Despite a court order, the TSA is still dragging its feet on complying with the law. Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner has…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/25/2013

Over at the Daily Caller, Christian Rice and I take a look at a successful regulatory reform model in the UK: the Red Tape Challenge:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/25/2013

59 new regulations, from patent fees to pork export reports.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/18/2013

60 new regulations, from financial management courses to de-icing planes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/14/2013

Over at the Daily Caller, Wayne Crews and I take a look at Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget, the Path to Prosperity. While it would…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/11/2013

If an agency is doing a poor job pursuing its mission, it needs to be held accountable; there is a reason Congress holds the power…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/11/2013

69 new regulations, from grading almonds to lost luggage.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/07/2013

Immigration Policy Analyst David Bier recently wrote for USA Today about a third side in the ongoing immigration debate: population control advocates who oppose immigration…

Immigration

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/06/2013

An overlooked argument in the minimum wage debate is that a high minimum wage gives big businesses an artificial competitive advantage over their smaller competitors.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/06/2013

If there's one thing the regulatory state could use more of, it's transparency. In today's ?Washington Times?, I shine a little light on the FCC:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/06/2013

In Beltway terms, the Federal Communications Commission’s $350 million budget request for 2013 is practically a rounding error. Yet it costs the American people a…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/04/2013

74 new regulations, from the Citrus Administrative Committee to pecan insurance.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/28/2013

The results of Italy’s general election were announced this week, setting markets on edge across the Eurozone. Warren Brookes Fellow Matt Melchiorre finds the outcome…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/28/2013

Over at the American Spectator, I argue that progressives should look elsewhere for ways to help the poor:…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/28/2013

President Obama brought the minimum wage debate back into the news in a big way in his State of the Union address, when he proposed…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/25/2013

53 new regulations, from the mental states of federal employees to giving rides to sick or injured people.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

Regulatory agencies need to be much more transparent. One way to do that is through an annual report card with important information about each agency…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

CEI and the Adam Smith Institute have teamed up to publish a U.S. edition of Christopher Snowdon's study "The Wages of Sin Taxes." He argues…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

Full Document Available in PDF It may come as a surprise that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the third most expensive…

Regulatory Reform

• Christine Hall, Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 21, 2013 – Somewhat surprisingly, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the third most expensive agency when it comes to the costs…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/18/2013

90 new regulations, from hot air balloons to Sea World’s fireworks shows.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/14/2013

CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman discusses a lawsuit in which CEI and two co-plaintiffs argue that portions of Dodd-Frank are unconstitutional.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/11/2013

61 new regulations, from your doctor’s stock portfolio to growing wine in Indiana.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/08/2013

"Even if your trading partner dumps rocks into his harbor to obstruct arriving cargo ships, you do not make yourself better off by dumping rocks…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/08/2013

Over at the American Spectator, Wayne Crews and I show just how bad the problem of regulation without representation is by using Wayne's handy Anti-Democracy…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 02/08/2013

The United States Constitution gives “all legislative powers herein granted” to Congress. Neither the judicial nor the executive branch has the power to make laws,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/04/2013

70 new regulations, from airplane bathrooms to advertising seized property.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/31/2013

Federal judges recently struck down four recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, claiming the Senate was in pro forma session when President Obama…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/28/2013

56 new regulations, from medical records to crop insurance.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/24/2013

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell recently released a headline-grabbing plan for the state's transportation funding that would abolish the state's gasoline tax and raise other taxes…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/24/2013

CEI has been pushing a common-sense regulatory reform idea for years: Congress should vote on all regulations with an annual cost of $100 million or…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/21/2013

54 new regulations, from microwave ovens to roof trusses.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/14/2013

52 new regulations, from nematodes to tiltorotors.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/07/2013

28 new regulations, from the United Soybean Board to synthetic drugs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/03/2013

Congress made an unsatisfying compromise deal this week to avoid falling off the fiscal cliff. But Vice President for policy Wayne Crews thinks this is…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/02/2013

More than 400 new laws came into effect today.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/31/2012

54 new regulations, from handling spearmint oil to drug testing railroad workers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/27/2012

Transparency is the lifeblood of democracy. Washington needs more of it, especially in the all-too-opaque world of regulation. The…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/24/2012

68 new regulations, from summer flounder fishing to switching contractors.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/19/2012

The quality of regulation depends heavily on its transparency. Taking to heart Justice Louis Brandeis’ stated belief that sunshine is the best disinfectant, the purpose…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/19/2012

In today's Washington Times, Wayne Crews and I write about a reform that has nearly two decades of bipartisan support, has a proven track record…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 12/18/2012

What do the Progressive Policy Institute, former Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, former presidential candidate Herman Cain and the Competitive Enterprise Institute have…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/17/2012

69 new regulations, from Spanish translations of used car buyers guides to shortnose suckers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/14/2012

Montreal mulls requiring dogs to be bilingual, USDA regulates polydactyl cats, plus more.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/12/2012

Fellow in Consumer policy Studies Michelle Minton argues that the beer industry in America is essentially a monopoly. In her new paper "Avoid a Monopoly…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/12/2012

Ryan Young, fellow in regulatory studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), reports that as of December 3, 2012, 3,392 final rules have been published…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/10/2012

94 new regulations, from apricots to civilian flights in Iraq.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/06/2012

Senior Fellow Matt Patterson discusses why public sector workers make substantially more money than their private sector counterparts.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/03/2012

88 new regulations, from phone bill formatting to food labels.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/27/2012

Senior Fellow Angela Angela Logomasini talks about her forthcoming CEI study, "Rachel Was Wrong: Agrochemicals’ Benefits to Human Health and the Environment."…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/26/2012

32 new regulations, from dehumidifiers to solid waste.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/21/2012

Senior Fellow Matt Patterson breaks down the controversy surrounding confection maker Hostess' perilous position.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/19/2012

48 new regulations, from medical paperwork to longshoremen’s headwear.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/15/2012

Alfred Kahn's lesson for regulators: "Do you want to be precisely wrong or approximately right?"…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/13/2012

The trucking industry went to extraordinary lengths to fight deregulation in the 1970s.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/13/2012

Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow Matthew Melchiorre explains what both sides of the Atlantic need to do to avoid fiscal catastrophe.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/12/2012

61 new regulations, from organic food residue to amateur rocketry liberalization.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/08/2012

Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner explains why the election turned out the way it did, and what the results mean going forward for…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/08/2012

A midnight rush is on the way, though it will likely be smaller than if Romney had won the election.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/05/2012

60 new regulations, from dishwashers to falconry.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/01/2012

Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia argues that Google's current dominance as an Internet search engine service is a fragile thing. Creative destruction is…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/29/2012

77 new regulations, from animal drugs to phone bills.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/23/2012

Externalities, asymmetric information, and monopolies are useful concepts for understanding how regulators should behave. But the important thing is how they do behave.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/22/2012

71 new regulations, from gas mileage to certifying seafarers.

Regulatory Reform