Citation
The Obfiscation Agenda
Beverage Industry Today
Health Benefits of Alcohol Defended
Washington Post
Feds not Needed
Washington Post
A Third Strike Against US Businesses
By responding hastily and irrationally to the recent upsurge in corporate indebtedness, congressional tax-writing committees might well create a major economic distortion in an already-biased…
New York Times
Friendlier Skies? (Letter to the Editor)
A Feb. 3 front-page article announced the welcome news that more airline competition is coming to Eastern markets, spurred by the entry of Southwest…
Blue Grass Policy
Big Labor’s Making Us Offers We Can Refuse
Blue Grass Policy
CEI and Crossroads GPS Announce Launch of Big Labor vs. Taxpayers
Blue Grass Policy
CEI and Crossroads GPS Announce Launch of Big Labor vs. Taxpayers
Blue Grass Policy
The Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Choice And The Other National Debt
No matter Mitt Romney’s running-mate candiate selection, cable news saturation of America for a couple days would have been and will be inevitable. Especially when…
College Insurrection
Maryland Bd of Ed – How About We Have Disciplinary Quotas by Race?
From College Insurrection: Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute discusses what happens when legally and factually misconceived notions of racial fairness result…
National Review
Who is ‘Richard Windsor’?
In The Liberal War on on Transparency, published by Threshold Editions last month, I revealed the existence of a series of black, or “alias” email…
National Review
Immigration Reform to be Discussed During Obama’s State of the Union Address; Critics Weigh in on Rubio’s E-Verify Work Plan
“Using employers as a fourth arm of the government is not the framework that the founders of this country envisioned when they created the Constitution,”…
Breitbart
Obama Admin’s School Guidelines Criticized By Legal, Education Experts
Breitbart
“Court Ruling A Big Blow to ‘Open Internet'”
“Verizon was joined in its fight by conservative and business groups that oppose neutrality rules, such as the Competitive…
The Wall Street Journal
Senate Can Help With Jobs if it Will
The Boston Globe
Critics hit law firms’ bills after class-action lawsuits
The Boston Globe discusses Thornton Law Firm’s legal fees in class-action lawsuits with CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s founder Ted Frank. Critics of…
Washington Examiner
How Congress can fix labor and employment laws in 2017
Reining in the top federal labor regulatory agencies should be a top priority for the new Congress. The National Labor Relations Board, created by Congress…
Boston Globe
Critics hit law firms’ bills after class-action lawsuits
Boston Globe discusses the State Street Bank and Trust Lawsuit by the Thornton Law Firm Critics of the way lawyers are paid in…
Blog
Federal Register Breaks Record by 10,000 Pages
Today standing at 91,642 pages, the Federal Register is 10,000 pages higher than the prior all-time record.
Blog
Three Regulatory Reforms Congress Can Pass in the First Hundred Days
Here are three they should pursue in the new administration’s first hundred days.
Blog
Can Congress Veto EPA’s Fuel Economy Rush Job?
The Environmental Protection Agency’s recent proposal to keep in place the agency’s model year greenhouse gas emission standards for new motor vehicles is the epitome…
Washington Examiner
Obama legacy: Most red tape in history, 35 days still left
Washington Examiner speaks with Clyde Wayne Crews on this year's record-breaking Federal Register's page count. According to regulation watcher Clyde Wayne Crews of…
Blog
Death Rate Rose and Life Expectancy Recently Fell in America
The death rate increased 1.2% last year, and life expectancy fell in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available.
Blog
A Free Market Policy Agenda for the Trump Administration
CEI’s free market policy agenda for the incoming Trump administration is aimed at strengthening the economy and removing barriers to economic freedom in five key…
Bloomberg
On Climate Change, Who Will Censure the Censors?
Bloomberg discusses the subpoena CEI received from an attorney general as an attempt to silence our free speech on climate change. Eight months…
New York Post
Controversial FCC boss to exit agency before term ends
New York Post discusses Federal Communication Comission's head Tom Wheeler's exit from the agency with CEI. The Competitive Enterprise Institute issued a negative…
Bloomberg
How Climate Rules Might Fade Away
Bloomberg discusses the Social Cost of Carbon with Marlo Lewis. Trump can’t undo the SCC by fiat. There is established case law requiring…
Politico
Trump vs. Yellen
Politico's Morning Money highlights CEI's policy reform recommendations for the Trump administration. The libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute is releasing a series of short…
News Release
CEI Releases Free Market Reform Agenda for the Trump Administration
Study
First Steps for the Trump Administration: Champion Affordable Energy
View full document as PDF While President Trump will need legislative approval by Congress to accomplish parts of his economic policy agenda,…
Blog
How Ridesharing Platforms Help the Economy
We have been saying for a while that ridesharing platforms like Lyft are different from traditional transportation firms, not just in the technology they use,…
Study
First Steps for the Trump Administration: Support Technology and Innovation
View full document as PDF The frontier sectors that define the new high-tech economy are uniquely vulnerable to political predation and cronyism.
Study
First Steps for the Trump Administration: Unleash America’s Labor Force
View full document as PDF During the Obama administration the Department of Labor (DOL) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) failed to…
Study
First Steps for the Trump Administration: Restore Financial Freedom
View full document as a PDF Over the past 15 years—beginning with the George W. Bush administration and accelerating rapidly in the…
Blog
Appeal Heard on ‘Hot Fuel’ Class Action Settlements
Last month, the Tenth Circuit heard argument in CEI’s appeal of the “Hot Fuel” settlements. This is the case where the plaintiffs sued most major…
Study
First Steps for the Trump Administration: Rein in the Regulatory State
View full document as PDF President-elect Donald Trump has instructed members of his transition team to “develop a list of executive actions…
Blog
Labor and Employment Reforms for the Next Congress
In the arena of labor and employment policy, the next Congress has its hands full in reversing eight years of red-tape that unduly burdens the…
Ars Technica
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication rule finally proposed by the government
Ars Technica discusses the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's proposed rule on vehicle-to-vehicle communication with Marc Scribner. But not everyone is as enamored.
Blog
Court Strikes Down Another Unlawful Labor Rule
On December 12, 2016, the federal Northern District Court of Texas put the final nail in the coffin of the Department of Labor’s misguided persuader…
Blog
Five Ways CFPB Regulations Harm the Middle Class
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was set up in 2010 to “make consumer financial markets work for consumers, responsible providers, and the economy as…
Blog
Ratios, Not People: The Wrong Approach to Inequality
Thomas Piketty, the best-selling author of Capital in the 21st Century, has a new paper on economic inequality with coauthors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
New York Times
Cars Talking to One Another? They Could Under Proposed Safety Rules
The New York Times discusses the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's proposed rule on vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology with Marc Scribner. The conservative Competitive…
Washington Post
Blind man sets out alone in Google’s driverless car
The Washington Post discusses the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's proposed rule on connected vehicle technology with Marc Scribner. The Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Legal NewsLine
CEI, in agenda for new Congress, pushes lawmakers to rein in federal agencies
Legal NewsLine highlights CEI's policy proposals for the 115th Congress. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for limited government and free enterprise,…
The Hill
Feds unveil rule requiring cars to ‘talk’ to each other
The Hill discusses the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's proposed rule on connected vehicle technology with Marc Scribner. “It is extremely disappointing to…
Washington Examiner
Court scraps Labor Department’s ‘persuader’ rule
Washington Examiner discusses a court ruling on the Department of Labor's "persuader rule" with Trey Kovacs. Trey Kovacs, labor policy analyst for…
News Release
Obama Regulators Rush Controversial Proposed Rule on Connected Vehicle Technology
Comment
CEI Letter to SEC on Derivatives Regulation
Blog
RealClear Radio Hour: Political Disasters in Science and Economics
This week on RealClear Radio Hour, Marc Edwards and Dan Liljenquist recount politically induced disasters from the perversion of science to the pension crisis.
Blog
Congress, Trump Administration Must Prioritize Air Traffic Control Reform
Earlier this year, an effort to usher in badly needed air traffic control reform spearheaded by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster died…