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The “Overhead Smash” Of ITAR
Over at Beltway Confidential today, Tim Carney asks if one of the unintended (or perhaps not-so-unintended) consequences of Dodd-Frank will be to…
News Release
CEI’s Ten-Point Plan to Create Jobs
1. Repeal financial “reform” laws, such as Dodd-Frank and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, that are causing economic uncertainty and dissuading businesses from expanding, investing, and hiring…
Op-Eds
Jobs Speech Won’t Do the Job
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his own jobs agenda this week in anticipation of President Obama’s Thursday address to Congress. The most important idea is…
The Tennessean
Competitive Enterprise Institute Gives TN High Score for Weak Unions
The Tennessean
Trade Restrictions Will Not Help Underpaid Chinese Workers
Re: “America’s economic troubles are deep-seated,” From Readers, Sept. 6 Madeleine Soudee laments that China, India and Vietnam are “intensely competitive by ignoring human…
The Tennessean
Obama’s Costly, Unaffordable, Harmful New Stimulus: The “American Jobs Act”
National Review
What the President Should Say Tonight
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The Inconsistencies of Food Nannyism: Are Potatoes Worse Than Soda?
The federal government has rejected a proposal from New York’s Mayor to exclude sugar-sweetened drinks from the food stamp program. But the government…
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TSA Agent: Be Quiet About Alleged Sexual Assault, or Pay $500,000
Give some people a badge, and the power goes to their head. A TSA agent has threatened to sue a female traveler who complained…
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Do We Really Need Government-Funded Anti-Piracy Training?
Just introduced by New Jersey Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R), the Piracy Suppression Act of 2011 aims to improve U.S. policy with respect to ocean pirates…
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Borzi’s Fiduciary Burden on Broker-Dealers
Openmarket.org Who ought to have greater fiduciary duties: a consumer-selected, paid adviser whose advice is optional, or an adviser who you legally must pay and…
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Today’s Links: September 7, 2011
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Borzi’s Fiduciary Burden on Broker-Dealers
Who ought to have greater fiduciary duties: a consumer-selected, paid adviser whose advice is optional, or an adviser who you legally must pay and whose…
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NASA’s Costly Risk Aversion
Over at Pajamas Media this past weekend, I describe the current travails of the International Space Station in the wake of…
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Stimulus, Fannie & Freddie, and the Regulation Roundup
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Obama Infrastructure Stimulus: Union Payoff Filled with Rail Boondoggles and Pork
Obama's proposed infrastructure stimulus is a payoff to Big Labor, as economist Ronald Utt explains. It "represents tens of billions of dollars in high,…
National Review
Industry Pressure and Politics Blamed for Obama’s Smog Rule Delay
National Review
Obama’s Jobs Agenda: An Infrastructure Bank that Robs You
I stopped by our bank Friday to get something notorized, and, damn, they were all out of free Jolly Ranchers. For a moment, I’d forgotten…
Weekly Press
Study: PA Favors Unions, Lags in Business Climate
Weekly Press
Is Apollo’s Past Spoiling Our Future in Outer Space?
Forbes
Stimulating Demand Misses the Point
A top summer’s-end story on the Drudge Report laments Ben Bernanke’s inferences that the air is pretty much out of the Federal Reserve balloon with…
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Stimulating Language
I’ve argued for a long time that stimulus bills are poorly named; it implies that they stimulate the economy. “Spending bill” is a non-loaded term…
CEI Planet
CEI Planet: July – August 2011
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The EPA Runs Amuck
Full Document Available in PDF On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives…
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Today’s Links: September 6, 2011
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Dear Labor, Don’t Fear the Robot
In California, a war is quietly being fought: workers versus technology. And the war has materialized in the form of a bill that seeks…
CEI Planet
CEI Planet: May – June 2011
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Obama’s Ironic, Belated, and Unaffordable Infrastructure “Stimulus”
In a Labor Day speech to an AFL-CIO rally in Detroit, President Obama said that "roads and bridges nationwide need rebuilding and more than…
Forbes
Bigoted, Discriminatory Banks? Not So, Says Attorney
Forbes
“Politicized Hiring at DOJ” Shoe is on the Other Foot Now
One News Now
Index of States’ Standing On Big Labor
Canada Free Press
Obama’s Jobs Speech is D.O.A.
Canada Free Press discusses Wayne Crews's study on the size of the federal regulatory burden. Obamacare has stalled hiring as businesses large and…
Atlantic Highlands Herald
The Jobs-Thing
The Atlantic Highlands Herald discusses Wayne Crews's report on the size of the federal regulatory burden. This topic crosses the eyes of the man on…
Cronkite News
Legal Wrangling to Delay Payout in Massive Indian Class-Action Lawsuit
Cronkite News discusses Ted Frank's objection to a settlement, on behalf of Kimberly Craven, because the class members who suffered the most were paid the…
Cronkite News
Alex Nowrasteh on Alabama’s Immigration Law
CEI Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh discusees the economic harm from tight immigration restrictions such as Alabama House Bill 56.
New York Post
A Bad Year for Big Labor
One News Now
Institute Claims New Labor Board Rule Will Pressure Workers
The Daily Record
New Study Ranks State High in Government Union Clout
Washington Examiner
Maryland Among Nation’s Most Pro-Union States
Washington Examiner
The Absurdity Of Anti-Bullying Laws
GOP Alaska
Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index
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Fannie-Freddie’s Hypocritical Suit Against Banks Making Loans that GSEs Helped Create
"U.S. is set to sue dozen big banks over mortgages," reads the front-page headline in today's New York Times. The "deck" below the headline…
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Massive Justice Department Attack on Banks?
A monumentally-destructive Justice Department attack on banks may soon occur. Earlier, I wrote about how the Obama Justice Department is now forcing banks to…
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Regulation Roundup
Burping in church is illegal in Nevada unless it's accidental, plus more.
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Alcohol Regulation Roundup: September 2, 2011
I'm back from the West Coast with another (hoppier) edition of the Alcohol Regulation Roundup, a collection of stories about our nations constantly changing, sometimes…
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More Failed Stimulus Spending: Green Jobs Boondoggles Promoted by Obama Fail, Go Bankrupt, But Obama Wants More
As the stock market sinks today in the face of news that no jobs were created in America last month (even as the number…
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Eminent Domain and Redevelopment: Down in the Dumps
Remember New London, Connecticut, the dying industrial town that threw property rights under the bus thanks to 2005’s notoriously awful Kelo decision? I’m sure your…
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Condom Mandates and Operation Fast and Furious
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CEI Weekly: CEI Unveils Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index
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More Failed Stimulus Proposals from Obama Administration: Increase Wasteful Education Spending
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A “Condom Mandate” is No Benefit for Adult Film Actors
I heard the news while driving home from work: a California porn star tested positive for HIV, resulting in a voluntary…
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Obama Administration Violated Federal Laws in Operation Fast and Furious, which Led to Killings of Americans and Mexicans
The scandal over Operation Fast and Furious, in which the Obama administration funneled thousands of guns to violent Mexican drug lords in an abortive, mismanaged…
GOP Alaska
Alabama’s Immigration Law Is a Train Wreck
On Monday, Federal District Judge Sharon Blackburn temporarily enjoined Alabama’s controversial immigration law (HB 56) for one month, to have enough time to address the…
Reason
Mandating Condoms?
Reason
Obama’s Anti-Jobs Agenda
Though President Obama is nowhere to be seen on ground-level job-creation efforts apart from the golf course, he did issue an early 2011 executive order…
Orange County Register
Cellphone Merger a Good Call
Orange County Register
Needed: Budget Reforms to Save Money Into the Future
Ecomerce Times
AT&T May Have to Break Out Its Dancing Shoes
Tiny Nibbles
Gaga Pantyless, Circumcision Rates Down, Sex Work Declared Slavery, Kim Kardashian [Sex News]
Yahoo! News
Challenge To T-Mobile Deal Brings Out Fans and Critics
News Max - Health
Critics Warn Supplements Bill Is FDA ‘Power Grab
Maryland Reporter
Maryland Is One of 10 Most Pro-Government Union States
Maryland Reporter
Is (Big) Labor Day Every Day?
News Release
Zero August Job Growth Reflects Anti-Business, Red Tape Climate in Washington
Washington, D.C., September 2, 2011 — Today’s job numbers from the US Department of Labor are downright dismal: the economy failed to add new…
News Release
President Postpones Trillion-Dollar Ozone Rule Until After 2012 Presidential Election
Washington, D.C., September 2, 2011 — President Barack Obama on Friday announced that he had ordered EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to stop work on…
Cincinatti Business Courier
P&G’s Papmers deal pooh-poohed
The Cincinnati Business Courier reports on the objections to the P&G and Bluetooth settlements which gave plantiff lawyers far more in fees than the class…
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CEI Podcast for September 1, 2011: The Blocked AT&T-T-Mobile Merger
The Department of Justice sued this week to stop the proposed AT&T-T-Mobile merger. Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia thinks this is a mistake.
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Antitrust, School Choice, and Poker
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Obama Administration: Time to Pay Your Neighbor’s Mortgage
The Washington Times yesterday had an editorial, "Paying Your Neighbor's Mortgage," about the costly new bailout advocated by political appointees in the Obama administration,…
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Today’s Links: September 1, 2011
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New Texas Satellite TV Taxes Dodged, But Cable Franchise Fee Abuse Persists
In April of this year, my colleague Ryan Radia and I wrote about a proposal making its way through the Texas State House to increase…
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Green Zealots Target Maryland Students
The Maryland State Board of Education passed a new curriculum requirement on June 21, 2011. Instead of gaining competence in math or science, students…
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Free Trade vs. Protectionism
If international trade barriers create wealth, why stop there? Every state should have its own trade barriers against every other state.
Los Angeles Times
U.S. Fears Lost Jobs If AT&T Merger is Approved
Los Angeles Times
We’re Powerless in the Face of the Alternative-Energy Lobby
Daily Caller
Solyndra’s All-Too-Predictable Collapse
On Tuesday evening, ABC News reported that in his upcoming “jobs speech,” President Obama will call for more “green jobs stimulus” — though this…
The Wonk Salon
Big Labor vs. the Taxpayers – a New Index
The Wonk Salon
The Day After: More Reaction To DoJ’s AT&T/T-Mobile Civil Suit
RBR
AT&T Vows to Pursue T-Mobile Merger Despite DOJ block
Politico
Collegio Emails
E Week
U.S. Suit to Block ATandT, T-Mobile Deal Draws Sharp Interest Group Reaction
West and Firm
Minton: The Coming War on Vitamins
Illinois Policy
Illinois Ranks Next to Last
Maine Freedom Forum
Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index – Maine Ranks #30
Majority in Mississippi
Few Public Sector Workers Belong To Union
Pennsylvania Chamber
New Study Shows Pa. Favors Big Labor Over Taxpayers
http://cei.org/sites/default/files/BNA 9 1 2011.pdf
Solar Company Bankruptcy Expected To Intensify Scrutiny of Loan Guarantees
http://cei.org/sites/default/files/BNA 9 1 2011.pdf
Peer-to-Peer Violence and Bullying: Examining the Federal Response (PDF)
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Green Crony Capitalism
"Green" jobs Created by the stimulus are shutting down after the public money has dried up. CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner explains how many jobs would…
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The Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index and the Regulation of the Day
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The DOJ’s Antitrust Seers
The philosopher Yogi Berra once said that “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Let’s apply his lesson to the proposed $39 billion…
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Indiana School Vouchers Please Parents, Infuriate Teachers
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Pampers Dry Max class action settlement objection
This week, we objected to a $0 settlement of the Pampers Dry Max class action that proposes paying $2.7 million to the lawyers. More…
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Obama Justice Department Forces Banks to Make Risky Loans, Planting the Seeds of a Future Financial Crisis
The Wall Street Journal today writes about how the Obama administration is repeating the "mistakes of the past by intimidating banks into lending to…
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Today’s Links: August 31, 2011
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Regulation of the Day 196: Babysitting
This bill will result in a lot of unhappy nights at home for frustrated parents – and a lot less income for sitters who have…
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NLRB’s Pro-Big Labor Ruling Trifecta is Bad News for the Economy
Earlier this year, President Obama proudly touted his executive order calling for federal agencies to review regulations on their books and identify obsolete rules for…
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CEI and Crossroads GPS Announce Launch of Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index
With state governments across the country struggling to balance budgets and fund basic services over the demands of big government unions, the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
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NLRB Rulings Are Gift to Unions, Blow to Economy
Washington, D.C., August 31, 2011 — Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) handed down three pro-union rulings that will have significant consequences for…
News Release
DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Subverts Free Enterprise, Job Creation
Washington, D.C., August 31, 2011 – This morning, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block the proposed acquisition of…