Reason
How Congress Can Use an Obscure Law From the 1880s to Limit Wasteful Government Contracts
Reason covers the release of Bureaucratic Dark Matter by Robert J. Hanrahan Jr. When the U.S. Army got caught spending $76 million on video games, recruitment…
The Washington Examiner
Senate OKs Trump pick for NLRB
The Washington Examiner discusses the confirmation of William Emanuel to the National Labor Relations Board with Trey Kovacs. The Senate on Monday confirmed business…
The Washington Free Beacon
GOP Controls Labor Board
The Washington Free Beacon discusses the confirmation of William Emanuel to the National Labor Relations Board with Trey Kovacs. Republicans hold majority on the…
News Release
Video: Regulatory Dark Matter: A hidden tax on consumers and businesses
Learn more about this hidden tax on consumers and businesses, with no Congressional oversight.
News Release
CEI Praises Senate Confirmation of NLRB Nominee William Emanuel
The Senate voted September 25 to confirm Trump nominee William Emanuel to the powerful National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). CEI labor policy expert …
Comment
CEI Comments to the Department of Labor on Overtime Rule Regulations
View Full Document as PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is pleased to submit these comments in response to the Department of…
Foundation for Economic Education
Economic Freedom Is the Best Weapon Against Poverty
Over the past few decades, hundreds of millions of people have risen out of poverty to grow into a powerful global middle class. This unprecedented…
Blog
Sen. Reed’s Harmful and Foolish Opposition to Arbitration in Consumer Finance Disputes
Sen. Reed and his allies are using hard cases to put the interests of trial lawyers above the interests of a free people.
Wall Street Journal
School Discipline Disparities and Education
Jason Riley is right to criticize civil-rights activists for insisting that racial differences in suspension rates must be the result of racism, rather than differences…
Wall Street Journal
Where Was CFPB While Wells Fargo Plundered?
F. Paul Bland asserts (Letters, Sept. 12) that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule is necessary to avoid “immunity” for Wells Fargo for…
Houston Chronicle
Trump Faces Next Climate Hurdle
The Houston Chronicle discusses the Paris Climate Treaty with Myron Ebell, President Donald Trump, three months after he pulled the U.S. out of the Paris…
Washington Examiner
For Gregg Harper, the Issue of Driverless Cars Is Personal
The Washington Examiner discusses the SELF DRIVE Act with Marc Scribner. Livingston Harper always wants to be on the move. At least that’s what his…
Investor's Business Daily
How Can We Fix The CFPB? Shut It Down
Investor’s Business Daily covers the release of The Case against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by Iain Murray. Regulation: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s very…
Blog
Education Department Withdraws “Dear Colleague” Letter Restricting Student and Faculty Rights
The Education Department recently withdrew two famous examples of regulatory “dark matter” issued during the Obama administration.
Blog
Sen. Graham’s Perplexing Pivot to a Carbon Tax
Lindsey Graham's enthusiasm for a carbon tax may be less popular than he imagines.
Blog
White House Officials Raise New Hopes that U.S. Will Stay in Paris Climate Treaty
The Wall Street Journal set off a kerfuffle early Saturday evening, September 16, when it sent out an email news alert headlined, “Trump Administration…
Foundation for Economic Education
London’s Uber Ban Sends it Back to the Dark Ages
When I lived in London in the 1990s, I had to use pricey Black Cabs to get around the city at night. However, heaven help…
Blog
CEI Comments: Volcker Rule Has Failed to Make Financial System More Stable
CEI submitted comments on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) proposed revision to the Volcker Rule, a federal regulation that bans…
Blog
Might Australian Financial Regulators Finally Embrace Greater Competition?
Over the past few weeks, I have been rather critical of the state of financial regulation in Australia. A banking scandal earlier this month revealed…
Bloomberg BNA
Self-Driving Truck Feud Shows Tech’s Vulnerability in Jobs Debate
Bloomberg BNA discusses the pushback by unions on self-driving trucks with Marc Scribner. A Senate effort to regulate self-driving trucks is spotlighting larger concerns…
Blog
Human Freedom Is Key to African Prosperity
Earlier this week at a presentation to the Cato Institute, authors Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst, Olusegun Obasanjo, and Dickie Davis, discussed their new book…
Comment
CEI Comments to Office of the Comptroller on Volcker Rule
View Full Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we are pleased to submit the following comments on…
The Daily Caller
Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Protection Agency Should Be ‘Abolished,’ Says Think Tank
The Daily Caller covers the release of “The Case against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.” Consumers are being harmed by the same federal…
National Review Online
The Government Shouldn’t Collect Private Financial Information from America’s Poor
National Review covers a new rule by the CFPB in which they collect personal financial data. One area of agreement, in principle at least,…
Blog
Google Employees Hear Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Everyone, especially Silicon Valley's tech elite, needs to understand the human value of fossil fuels.
Blog
The Never-Ending Title IX Investigation
Los Angeles lawyer Ken White notes that a professor is being “investigated for writing about being investigated for writing about being investigated.” This Title…
Blog
One Solution to the CFPB’s Problems: Pass the Financial CHOICE Act
My new paper, The Case against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Unconstitutionally Structured and Harmful to Consumers, which is out today, makes the case…
Bloomberg
Best Self-Driving Tech Going Nowhere as Rules Stall Under Trump
Bloomberg discusses V2V regulations on self-driving cars with Marc Scribner. The technology that gives cars superpowers to see around corners and through walls…
The Daily Caller
Report: Fed Bureaucracies Commit Thousands Of Felonies Every Day
The Daily Caller covers the release of Bureacratic Dark Energy by Robert J. Hanrahan, Jr. Bureaucracies have successfully evaded congressional budget oversight for…
The Daily Caller
EPA Chief Who Used An Alias To Avoid Scrutiny Complains Trump Admin Isn’t Transparent
The Daily Caller discusses former EPA Chief Lisa Jackson’s private email account with Chris Horner. EPA Chief Scott Pruitt is a threat to…
InsideSources
Three Early Lessons From the Equifax Hack
InsideSources covers the Equifax breach and Jim Harper‘s response to it. It’s been almost two weeks since Equifax reported the hack of 143…
JD Supra
Monkey See, Monkey Do…Monkey Own? The Curious Case of Naruto v. Slater
JD Supra covers CEI’s amicus brief in Naruto v. Slater. When wildlife photographer David Slater set up his camera in the rainforests of Indonesia, he…
JD Supra
Seventh Circuit Rejects Subway Footlong Class Settlement as a “Racket”
JD Supra covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. A recent Seventh Circuit decision pushed back on a proposed settlement of the Subway “footlong sub” class…
News Release
Report: Unaccountable CFPB Regulators Do More Harm than Good for Consumers
Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute released a report documenting the harm inflicted on ordinary consumers of financial products by a federal agency that remains…
Study
The Case against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The CFPB was meant to protect American pocketbooks and property. But the unconstitutionally structured agency is harmful to consumers.
Blog
Debit Cards Fee Limits Have Big Impact on Payday Loans and Overdraft Charges
Seven years on from the inception of the Durbin Amendment, it has pushed nearly a million consumers out of formal financial services by raising the…
Blog
Poll: Americans Don’t Trust Big Bank Regulators
Bank regulators should foster an environment of financial competition, where institutions compete on the merits of their products and bear their own risks, instead of…
Blog
Will Government Union Gravy Train Come to an End?
No worker should be forced to financially support an organization against his or her will. For too long, government employee unions have possessed the power…
CNBC
Trump Is Still Pulling Out of Paris Agreement, Despite Chatter of a Reversal, Experts Say
CNBC discusses the possibility of President Trump pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement with Myron Ebell. President Donald Trump is unlikely to reverse…
The Greeley Tribune
Yeatman-Cooke: The Math Behind Xcel’s ‘Colorado Energy Plan’ Defies Reality and History
Xcel Energy recently announced that it would use Gov. John Hickenlooper’s July executive order calling for climate change policy as reason to bypass the Colorado…
Blog
Ending the Myth of ‘Too Much’ Bank Competition
It’s time to let the idea that too much competition is bad for financial stability finally die.
Foundation for Economic Education
People Are Complaining About iPhone X Because That’s How Innovation Works
The iPhone X has not even been released and people are already complaining about it. That shouldn’t be surprising. It is one of the…
World Net Daily
Trump’s Inner Circle ‘Fighting’ to Keep Paris Climate Deal
World Net Daily discusses the future of the Paris Climate Accord with Chris Horner. Key White House officials are denying any change in President…
Politico
Morning Transportation Mailbag
Politico’s Morning Transportation covers CEI’s comments to the Senate Commerce Committee on the AV START Act. The libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute wrote to…
U.S. News & World Report
Don’t Blunt the Marijuana Revolution
U.S. News & World Report covers the coalition letter, led by CEI, advocating for the Rohrabacher medical marijuana amendment. America is undergoing a somewhat…
News Release
Bureaucratic Dark Energy Grows Government Illegally
Bureaucratic Dark Energy is a paper released today from the Competitive Enterprise Institute revealing a growing concern over the federal government’s use of thousands…
Blog
Is Global Warming Causing More Hurricanes?
Are this year’s round of hurricanes evidence that we’re entering an age of climate catastrophe? Recent commentary and analysis from CEI experts suggests not.
Study
Bureaucratic Dark Energy
View Full Document as PDF There are thousands of felonies committed every day in Washington, D.C. Not in the places one might…
Litigation
Carlyle v. Akorn, Inc. et al.
Last year the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) and CEI won an appellate victory over the self-serving Walgreens shareholder settlement, where the Seventh…
Blog
Former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman: Partisan of EPA Overreach
Gov. Whitman supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and was in favor of the Obama administration's so-called Clean Power Plan.