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• 08/31/2020

The last week saw another political convention, another police shooting, and two hurricanes. There was at least one major positive story, though. Polio has finally…

Regulatory Reform

• 08/24/2020

The spring 2020 Unified Agenda was published on August 17. Due four months ago, it collects every rulemaking agency’s plans for upcoming regulations. The number…

Regulatory Reform

• 08/17/2020

Kamala Harris was announced as the Democratic dvice-presidential candidate, a massive storm swept through the Midwest, and Congress is out of session until September. The…

Regulatory Reform

• 08/10/2020

In a new CEI video, Kent Lassman talks about three things agencies can do rein in regulations that are hindering the COVID-19 response and making…

Regulatory Reform

• 08/10/2020

August’s 2020 disaster list so far includes a massive warehouse explosion in Beirut that killed more than 100 people and Hurricane Isaias. In positive news,…

Regulatory Reform

• 08/07/2020

In July, 1.8 million new jobs were created, and the unemployment rate dropped to 10.2 percent. That is a welcome follow-up to the second quarter’s…

Labor and Employment

• 08/07/2020

CEI labor policy expert Sean Higgins breaks down what the jobs numbers from July are telling decision makers:…

Labor and Employment

• 08/06/2020

President Trump on Thursday announced he will reimpose 10 percent aluminum tariffs against Canada. Originally enacted in 2018 on national security grounds, the tax was…

Trade and International

• 08/03/2020

What a week. COVID-19 deaths passed 150,000. Second-quarter GDP declined 9.5 percent from a year ago and 7 percent from the previous quarter. In more uplifting…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/31/2020

The good news is that the second quarter’s GDP numbers aren’t nearly as scary as the more dramatic headlines are saying. The economy has not…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/27/2020

Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 4 million last week. Congress returned to session after its July 4 break and is putting together…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/22/2020

Policymakers called for price gouging laws in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, when massive shortages—and rising prices—ensued nationwide for hand sanitizer, personal protective equipment,…

Banking and Finance

• 07/22/2020

Price gouging becomes a hot topic during every crisis. It has become especially topical during the COVID-19 crisis. Almost overnight, the need exploded for goods…

Banking and Finance

• 07/21/2020

The Code of Federal Regulations contains more than 1.1 million regulatory restrictions. State and local governments have additional rules. Some of those rules have a…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/21/2020

Regulatory reform is one of the most important weapons there is for fighting COVID-19 and for aiding the economic recovery after the worst passes. Where…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/20/2020

After another busy week for agencies, the 2020 Federal Register is on pace to be 79,121 pages. None of those pages include the Spring 2020…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/16/2020

There are lots of good regulatory reform ideas out there. The ideas with the most staying power share a common theme. They don’t just treat…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/16/2020

Policymakers have waived more than 600 regulations as part of the COVID-19 response. Federal agencies lifted rules against telemedicine and remote education.

Regulatory Reform

• 07/13/2020

New COVID cases continued to rise, and the Supreme Court handed down a number of controversial decisions to end its term. Regulatory agencies issued new…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/09/2020

Policy makers at all levels of government have waived more than 600 regulations, including rules impeding access to medical care and making the economic shock…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/09/2020

Regulatory reform is one of the most important policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Removing obstacles to health care can save lives. Removing barriers against…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/08/2020

Policy makers at all levels of government have waived more than 600 regulations in response to the COVD-19 crisis.[1] Those rules were…

Regulatory Reform

• 07/08/2020

A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report proposes three plans Congress and the Trump administration can enact immediately to lift trade barriers in the way of…

Trade and International

• 07/08/2020

Trade barriers are an obvious #NeverNeeded candidate for removal during a pandemic and a recession. They make medical supplies scarcer and more expensive. They raise…

Trade and International

• 07/06/2020

The most important priorities during the coronavirus pandemic are keeping people safe and minimizing economic damage. Trade barriers are harming both priorities. This paper contains…

Trade and International

• 07/06/2020

The USMCA trade agreement came into effect on July 1, and three states increased their minimum wages. The unemployment rate went down to 11.1 percent.

Regulatory Reform

• 07/01/2020

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) comes into effect today. USMCA’s policy changes are modest, and its economic impact will be small. But it sets a…

Trade and International

• 06/29/2020

Consumer spending rose 8.2 percent in May, a new record that gives hope for a quicker economic recovery. On the other hand, new coronavirus cases…

Regulatory Reform

• 06/26/2020

The John Locke Foundation has released a Rebound Plan for North Carolina, where it is based—the basketball reference is a nice touch. It contains reform…

Regulatory Reform

• 06/23/2020

President Trump’s steel tariffs were intended to boost U.S. manufacturing. They backfired to the point where a group of steel-using industries sued to stop the…

Trade and International

• 06/22/2020

Trade protectionists have taken to calling free traders soft on China. According to John Bolton’s forthcoming book, it turns out to be the other way…

Regulatory Reform

• 06/18/2020

Pierre Lemieux, in Regulation magazine, draws from the new 2020 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments to estimate the Trump administration's net impact on regulation. Trump’s…

Regulatory Reform

• 06/15/2020

The rate of new coronavirus cases increased last week, adding a note of caution to tentative efforts at reopening. Regulatory agencies issued new final regulations…

Regulatory Reform

• 06/08/2020

Friday’s 13.3 percent unemployment rate announcement was actually good news, and says much about the more than 600 regulations waived so far at various levels…

Regulatory Reform

• 06/05/2020

Upending expert predictions, the U.S economy added 2.5 million jobs in May and the unemployment dropped to 13.3 percent, according to the Labor Department. This,…

Labor and Employment

• 06/04/2020

Regulations are a big obstacle in fighting the coronavirus. They are also a major obstacle to economic recovery.

Banking and Finance

• 06/04/2020

At Inside Sources, Wayne Crews and Ryan Young have an op-ed summarizing the main findings of Wayne’s new 2020 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments, plus…

Regulatory Reform

• 06/03/2020

Many regulations have proven especially harmful during the COVID-19 crisis. But many of those waivers are temporary. Those temporary waivers should be made permanent. One…

Regulatory Reform

• 06/01/2020

CEI released the 2020 edition of Wayne Crews’s annual Ten Thousand Commandments report, which gives a big-picture view of the federal regulatory state. Regulatory agencies…

Regulatory Reform

• 05/28/2020

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today released the 2020 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (10KC 2020), CEI’s annual survey of…

Regulatory Reform

• 05/27/2020

The 2020 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments is out. Wayne Crews’s annual report gives a big picture view of the federal regulatory state. There has…

Regulatory Reform

• 05/26/2020

In an op-ed in National Review, CEI Senior Fellow Ryan Young takes a look at President Trump’s new Executive Order directing agencies to get rid…

Regulatory Reform

• 05/26/2020

President Trump issued an Executive Order encouraging agencies to keep #NeverNeeded regulations waived during the coronavirus permanently off the books. Meanwhile, regulatory agencies issued new…

Regulatory Reform