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• Ryan Young
• 06/15/2018

President Donald Trump announced today he will slap 25 percent tariffs on Chinese technology imports. CEI Fellow Ryan Young warned the move will backfire.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/11/2018

The president’s threats must be fought, but the good news is America’s fundamental institutions will withstand Trumpian bluster. For one thing, our economy remains a…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/11/2018

The week’s big headlines were about the G7 meeting and our allies’ efforts to avoid a trade war, and the meeting with north Korea…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/04/2018

A new 25 percent steel tariff and a 10 percent aluminum tariff have come into effect. The levies are aimed at our allies, such as Canada,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/04/2018

Despite a four-day workweek, federal agencies still exceeded the previous week’s Federal Register page count by nearly a hundred pages, pushing the yearly total past…

Regulatory Reform

• Ryan Young
• 05/31/2018

Today, the Trump administration announced additional steel and aluminum tariffs on America’s allies, including the European Union, Canada, and Mexico.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/29/2018

Agencies took it comparatively easy in the leadup to the long Memorial Day weekend, though the FAA and Coats Guard were busy with rules for…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/21/2018

It was a relatively slow week, with 44 proposed regulations and 62 final regulations, though the Supreme Court did rule the federal ban on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/14/2018

The big news from the last week was the release of the spring edition of the twice-yearly Unified Agenda, which lists all planned agency regulations…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/07/2018

It is now May, and still only one economically significant regulation (costing $100 million or more per year) has been issued this year. With the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/02/2018

While the president’s initial flurry of executive orders enacting some regulatory reforms was a pleasant surprise, the next president can undo them with the stroke…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/30/2018

Following in George W. Bush’s footsteps, President Trump increased tariffs on foreign-made steel and aluminum by 25 percent in March. But he exempted U.S. allies…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/30/2018

The number of new final regulations passed the 1,000 mark last week, with new rules ranging from sending mail to human reliability programs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/25/2018

Since any number with that many zeroes and commas in it is difficult for the human mind to process, let’s put it in a more…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/23/2018

The big news this week was the release of the 2018 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments. Agencies continued to provide fodder for next years edition…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

One of the lessons learned from this year’s “10,000 Commandments” study is that Congress needs to be more involved in the regulatory process. It needs…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

Eventually, politicians will be forced to get spending and deficits under control, but regulatory reforms are just as important to keep the economy growing and…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

Wayne Crews has ably documented the regulatory state for twenty-five years and running. But what will the next twenty-five years of “10,000 Commandments” look like?…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

Trump economic advisor and Death by China author Peter Navarro’s recent column in The Wall Street Journal, “China’s Faux Comparative Advantage,” is a…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/16/2018

The highlights from this week’s round of 36 proposed regulations and 72 final regulations range from licensing government inventions to the Department of Redundancy Department’s…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/09/2018

It may not feel like Spring yet, but regulatory agencies have turned their fancies to rulemaking, with 45 proposed and 70 final regulations ranging from…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/03/2018

With a full quarter of 2018 in the books, agencies have issued just one economically significant rule—an increase in State Department fees amounting to $115…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/01/2017

Common ground is nearly impossible to find in Washington these days. But with the Senate’s recent confirmation of Neomi Rao as the White House’s…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/31/2017

As the reality television drama in Washington continues to unfold, regulatory agencies pushed the 2017 Federal Register past the 35,000-page mark and issued 75 new…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/25/2017

As summer marches on, regulatory agencies issued more than 60 new regulations in the last week.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/17/2017

Regulatory agencies were plenty busy last week, with new rules in the last week ranging from Maine’s gas stations to hammerhead shark herd size.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/10/2017

81 new rules from the last week still range from work surfaces to spirulina extract.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/03/2017

A recent EPA rule for dental effluence caused some controversy for violating President Trump’s one-in, two-out policy for new rules.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/19/2017

New rules from the last week are as wide-ranging as ever, from dental effluence to reciprocating engines.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 06/13/2017

Reason covers the Secretary of Labor Acosta’s decision to eliminate independent contractor rules. Eliminating a set of Obama administration rules for independent contractors…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/05/2017

After a lengthy delay, several Obama-era rules are starting to come into effect, especially energy-use rules ranging from refrigerators to ceiling fans.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/15/2017

The number of new final regulations this year passed the one-thousand mark. While many of the new rules are delays or repeals of older rules,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/08/2017

Another droll week on the regulatory front, with new rules ranging from UHF television to restaurant menus.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/01/2017

While most of the week’s new final regulations are either routine or procedural, they still range from rural phone calls to airplane batteries.

Regulatory Reform

• Ryan Young
• 04/26/2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute supports the Unauthorized Spending Accountability (USA) Act of 2017, aimed at reducing and bringing transparency to executive branch spending. Ryan Young,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/24/2017

The Federal Register continues its slow march to the 20,000-page mark, but is still on pace for lowest page total since 1993.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/17/2017

The 2017 Federal Register had another sub-thousand page week, though it is still already more than 18,000 pages long.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/12/2017

With the Trump administration’s early emphasis on deregulation, there was hope that cronyist agencies such as the Export-Import Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and Economic…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/10/2017

Things remain slow on the regulatory front, with a large chunk of new rules being routine safety-zone and drawbridge scheduling regulations from the Coast Guard.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/03/2017

There were 63 final regulations and 28 proposed regulations last week, but again, few of them amounted to much. We’ll have more to say on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/27/2017

The Trump administration’s 60-day regulatory freeze is now over, but many of this week’s new regulations are simply extensions of previous delays. So despite a…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/20/2017

Starting this week, many late-Obama administration regulations delayed by the Trump administration’s 60-day freeze will come into effect.

Regulatory Reform