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Nobody for Commerce Secretary
In choosing John Bryson as his nominee to be the next U.S. secretary of commerce, President Obama has chosen a perfect representative of our new…
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NFL, Players in Court Today
Today is a crucial day in the ongoing labor dispute between the NFL and the supposedly disbanded players’ union, the NFLPA as they return to…
Op-Eds
Deregulation Now!
Today’s much weaker than expected employment numbers show that the president’s agenda of more regulation and increased spending has undoubtedly failed. However much…
Blog
Deregulatory Baby Steps
In a welcome move, the White House announced this morning that a review of regulations by government departments had found 30 (count 'em) regulations…
Op-Eds
Unsportsmanlike Conduct On The NFL Players Union
Today, only 7 percent of private sector workers belong to a union. Union membership has plummeted as unionized companies have become less competitive, in…
Blog
The Loony Left Era
The Economist has this to say about the NLRB’s pursuit of Boeing: The NLRB is an autonomous body, but its board members are appointed…
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Trade Week: Why I Learned to Hate Civilization
When I first played the strategy game Civilization -- on an Amiga computer in the early 1990s -- I was instantly hooked. I was a…
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NFL Case Illustrates Power of Unions
The NFL's protracted labor dispute with The Union Formerly Known As The NFL Players' Association (TUFKATNFLPA) turned another corner yesterday. An Appellate Court ruling granted…
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Trade Week: Fair Trade Isn’t Fair
As I passed by the Commerce Department on my way in to work this morning, I saw the bureaucrats had erected a banner for…
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Time to Recharter Executive Agencies
Several government agencies are mightier today than traditional departments like the Treasury. For instance, the EPA is one of the major regulatory bodies and…
Real Clear Markets
The NLRB Overreaches – Once Again
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has gone lawsuit crazy. With the U.S. House of Representatives now under Republican control, the Board is now…
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The Policy Side of the Royal Wedding
Real Clear Markets
Union Retreat May Mean no More Slush Funds
The news that the Firefighters’ union is going to stop spending money at the Federal level to defend its privileges at state and local level is…
Real Clear Markets
The Midnight Ride of Standard & Poor’s
Three cheers for Standard & Poor’s (S&P). On Monday, the rating agency issued a critical warning that America’s debt burden is growing too great. By…
NCPA
Regulation Day
National Center for Policy Analysis discusses regulation costs with Iain Murray and references Wayne Crews's study. Every year we are reminded how much…
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Debt Warning Should Force Decision on America’s Future
Study
Panel Transcript: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children
MARK KRIKORIAN: Good morning. My name is Mark Krikorian. I’m executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank here in town that…
NCPA
There Is No ‘Regulation Day’ to Remind Us How Much They Cost
Every year we are reminded how much money the government filches from us on Tax Day. However, there is no equivalent ‘Regulation Day’ to remind…
Cato At Liberty
If There Were An Annual ‘Regulation Day’
Cato at Liberty points to the writings on regulation of experts Iain Murray and Wayne Crews. As Iain Murray points out at National…
Blog
A Definition of Classical Liberalism?
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Paul Ryan’s Budget Proposal is Half the Answer
This morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) unveiled a bold proposal to trim trillions off America’s bloated budget. It represents the only serious proposal out there…
Cato At Liberty
Three Lessons From Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima is at last approaching stable, if still serious, condition. The struggles the Japanese have faced there, on top…
Cato At Liberty
As Japan Crisis Unfolds, Energy Secretary Steven Chu Fails Nuclear and Leadership Test
With reactors at the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear plant in danger of a meltdown, the world waits with bated breath for the outcome. Interestingly, physicists, the…
Daily Caller
How a moratorium on nuclear power could stop Obama’s clean energy agenda in its tracks
Fox Business
Japan Crisis Shouldn’t Derail Nuclear Movement in U.S.
Fox Business
Japan Crisis Shouldn’t Derail Nuclear Movement in U.S.
Fox Business
Japan’s Nuclear Crisis: Where Is Steven Chu?
Anyone who has done a little reading on the Japan nuclear crisis will know that we’re facing a less dangerous situation than Three Mile Island.
Washington Times
Inside the Beltway
Washington Times discusses nuclear meltdowns in Japan with Iain Murray. “Either Secretary Chu is so beholden to the ‘green’ movement that he feels…
Washington Times
What’s the catch with NOAA’s catch-shares program?
A year ago, Daniel Bubb worked as a fisherman in Gloucester, Mass., operating a fishing business with more than 60 employees. Government intervention has a…
Washington Times
What’s the Catch With NOAA’s Catch-Shares Program?
A year ago, Daniel Bubb worked as a fisherman in Gloucester, Mass., operating a fishing business with more than 60 employees. Government intervention has…
Washington Times
All Aboard the Climate Gravy Train
Global-warming alarmists often portray climate scientists as poorly paid academics whose judgment is impervious to the influence of money. This seems strange given…
Washington Times
Obama Wastes Yucca Mountain
As America’s nuclear power stations begin to show their age, the problem of what to do with all their waste has become much more pressing.
Journal Sentinel
Madison Fight Remains in National Spotlight
Journal Sentinel
Madison Fight Remains in National Spotlight
The Journal Sentinel highlights CEI's Iain Murray and Vincent Vernuccio's article on unions for the Washington Times. Washington Times opinion writers Iain Murray and…
Journal Sentinel
Fixed Labor Game is Ending in Wisconsin
Across the nation, public-sector unions realize the game is up, and they aren’t happy about it. They’re doing everything in their considerable power to stop…
Journal Sentinel
TSA Union Power Grab
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for taxpayers and airport travelers – but a good one for government employee unions. As if the…
Orange County Register
Deceptive Obama Budget Still Bloated
The Orange Country Register discusses President Obama's deceptive budget with Iain Murray. "The president is pulling a fast one on the public when he…
International Liberty
The Federal Bureaucracy: Even More Bloated When You Count the “Shadow” Workforce
International Liberty references Iain Murray's Nationa Review article to discuss the size of the federal workforce. Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
International Liberty
Leviathan
How many Americans work in government? That’s a difficult question to answer. Officially, as of 2009, the federal government employed 2.8 million individuals out of…
Study
Counteract Politicization of Federal Science Policy
Liberate to Stimulate Index The federal politicization of science in many areas is harming science itself. Ethics rules and advisory panel guidelines…
Study
Resist New Burdens on the Transportation Sector
Liberate to Stimulate Index The transportation industries—airline, railroad, shipping, and trucking—are networks involving both a flow and a grid. The flow element…
Study
Reform the Transportation Security Administration
Liberate to Stimulate Index Reform of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is long overdue—as the recent passenger backlash against both the TSA’s…
Study
Develop New Approaches to Preserve Ocean Resources
Liberate to Stimulate Index The world’s fisheries face severe decline. Because many of the world’s ocean resources are not “owned,” they tend…
International Liberty
Politicized Science Costs Us All
After a 21-month delay, White House science adviser John Holdrenhas finally issued a four-page memo on scientific integrity in government. The guidelines demonstrate an intractable…
International Liberty
For the TSA, all risks are created equal
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, recently told The Atlantic in an interview that “we’ll never eliminate risk” of terrorist attacks on…
International Liberty
Global Warming Goes Gaga
It’s the coldest winter on record in Great Britain. Great Britain also has experienced its heaviest snowfalls since the 1920s. The mayor of London, who…
International Liberty
The Enemy Within
In the early 1980s, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher emerged victorious from a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands that propelled her to a…
International Liberty
Alternative Energy and the Academy at Lagado
A lot of otherwise sensible people have been calling recently for massive government investment in alternative energy research, arguing that it is the only solution…
Study
International Fisheries
Full Document Available in PDF The history of fisheries management in the United States largely…
Hot Air
Why the feds are selling GM stock at a loss
First, the government is what is known as a “motivated seller.” By offering such a low stock price, the administration is essentially admitting that it…