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Tech: FCC to Vote on Internet Regulation Plan Despite Economic Warnings: “Lawmakers are on high alert as the Federal Communications Commission prepares…
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FCC passes ‘net neutrality’ Internet regulations
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High court turns deaf ear to jilted business owners
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Facilitate Electricity Competition
Full Document Available in PDF A fully responsive electricity industry would use active demand and…
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Resist New Burdens on the Transportation Sector
Full Document Available in PDF The transportation industries—airline, railroad, shipping, and trucking—are…
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Counteract Politicization of Federal Science Policy
Full Document Available in PDF The federal politicization of science in…
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Advance a Global Pro-Trade Agenda
Full Document Available in PDF Increasing liberalization of world trade is one…
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Protect Free Speech by Rejecting Content Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, the First Amendment’s…
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Avoid Hampering the Internet through Net Neutrality Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF Some observers have speculated that 2009…
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Protect and Enhance Federalism
Full Document Available in PDF The Framers of the Constitution intended federalism to act as…
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FCC prepares to adopt ‘net neutrality’ rules
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Study and Understand Corporate Social Responsibility
Full Document Available in PDF Congress should study the confusion created in the…
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Clarify the Role of Intellectual Property in the Economy
Full Document Available in PDF Copyright and patent laws protect…
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Keep Government’s Hands off the Net and E-Commerce
Full Document Available in PDF As a network of networks, the…
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Allow Immigrants to Help Fill America’s Need for Workers
Congress should implement more flexible, less restrictive immigration laws, with the ultimate goal of an immigration system that lets law-abiding workers from anywhere fill any…
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Let Market Forces Regulate Internet Gambling
Full Document Available in PDF Americans like to gamble; in 48 states they…
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Protect Sensitive and Disaster-Prone Natural Areas
Full Document Available in PDF Overdevelopment of wetlands, barrier islands, old growth forests,…
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New York Energy Drink Ban Hearing at 2:30 on Tuesday
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Alcohol Regulatory Roundup: December 20, 2010
While most lawmakers have checked out for the holiday vacation already (mentally and/or physically), there are still some movers and shakers out there getting frothed…
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Update on D.C. Metro Bag Checks
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Phase Out the National Flood Insurance Program
Full Document Available in PDF Since it emerged in its current form…
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Encourage Competition between Different Types of Depository Institutions
Full Document Available in PDF Three major types of depository institutions—banks,…
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New Hayekian Anthem
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Liberalize Homeowners, Automobile, Life, and Commercial Insurance Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF A confusing patchwork of state-level…
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Develop Smart Policies to Help Homeowners Deal With Natural Catastrophes
Full Document Available in PDF Natural catastrophes such as…
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Forge a Bipartisan Approach to End Corporate Welfare
Full Document Available in PDF One of government’s primary current undertakings…
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Afternoon Links: December 20, 2010
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Avoid Privacy Regulation that Could Worsen Personal Security
Full Document Available in PDF There are two great ironies in…
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Congress Set to Fail Online Poker Players
As I have written about before, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced a bill earlier this month that would legalize a limited form of online…
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Avoid Extending Antitrust Regulation into New Competitive Realms
Full Document Available in PDF Over the past several decades, until…
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Allow Workers and Employers to Work without Burdensome Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF One of America’s greatest economic…
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Increase Access to Energy
Full Document Available in PDF Economic prosperity and our standard of living depend…
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Avoid Energy and Global Warming Policies that Pose More Risk than Global Warming
Full Document Available in PDF Although…
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Liberalize Telecommunications
Full Document Available in PDF Appeals to the “public interest” and claims of airwave scarcity have long been…
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Food Safety Modernization Act Passes; Unconstitutional Provision Supposedly Removed
The Food Safety Modernization Act was passed again by Congress on Sunday, apparently without a provision that earlier drew criticism for violating the Constitution by having a…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Chavez defends plan for Internet regulations: “Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended plans for a law that would impose broadcast-type regulations on the…
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FCC Commissioners Should Reject Net Neutrality Rules
Washington, D.C., December 20, 2010 – Tomorrow morning, the FCC will hold a vote on network neutrality rules, mere days before Christmas celebrations begin.
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FCC Threatens to Impose Destructive Rules on Internet
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The Enemy Within
In the early 1980s, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher emerged victorious from a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands that propelled her to a…
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Future FSA, HRA charges to fund ObamaCare
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Alcohol Rules Disrupt Holiday Cheer
Appeared in: The Providence Journal You might want to send a beautifully packaged wine and cheese gift basket to friends in New York State.
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The Wind Subsidy Bubble
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Ohio, Wisconsin Reject High-Speed Rail Funds
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Public Employee Unions Bankrupting States
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses who will confront public employee unions over their unsustainable pensions.
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The Fed’s Christmas Gift: Reduced Fees for Fat-Cat Merchants
On a snowy Thursday in the nation’s capital – with little more than a week to go until Christmas – the Board of Governors of…
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Rip-Off: College Tuition Bubble and Debt Burdens Grow Worse
Forbes magazine recently blew the whistle on how skyrocketing college tuition is ripping off the public. Thanks to some colleges’ greed, and the federal and state financial…
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Judicial Hellholes Kill Jobs and Redistribute Wealth
The most recent list of judicial hellholes has just been released by the American Tort Reform Association. It lists “courts in Philadelphia; California’s Los Angeles…
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CEI Weekly: Obamacare Ruled Unconstitutional
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Pennsylvania State Lottery Commission Opposes Internet Gambling
When a government agency is threatened, it will inevitably lash out in efforts to keep the government jobs safe and the tax money flowing. This…
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The Durbin Amendment, Bag Searches, and McDonald’s
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Afternoon Links: December 17, 2010
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Online Poker is Not Illegal: U.S. Courts
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of New York sentenced convicted felon Anurag Dikshit, the co-founder of PartyGaming.com, to a meager year of probation and indicated his…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: FCC’s net neutrality plan faces growing chorus of bipartisan opposition: “As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prepares to vote next week on…
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Nanny-Statist CSPI Sues to Ban Happy Meals at McDonald’s
An ill-informed left-wing group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, is suing McDonald’s in California to ban toys from Happy…
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Food Safety
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Obama’s GM Numbers Are Not Adding Up
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Undoing College
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Happy Meal Lawsuit, cont’d
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Afternoon Links: December 16, 2010
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“Odd Couple!” Nader/Public Citizen Attorney and Richard Epstein Urge Supreme Court to Hear CEI’s Tobacco Case
“Odd couple.” That’s how a Forbes report just described a pairing of former Nader/Public Citizen attorney Alan Morrison and University of Chicago Law School Prof.
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Interchange Price Controls, the MSA, and Ethanol
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Should Obamacare Be Struck Down In Its Entirety Rather Than Just Having Its Unconstitutional Parts Severed?
In his ruling striking down Obamacare’s individual mandate (requirement that people buy health insurance), Judge Hudson in Richmond declined to strike down the rest…
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Security Theater, D.C. Metro Edition
Everyone wants our transportation systems to be safe. But safety must also be balanced with respecting the privacy of citizens, and not wasting money on…
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Antitrust Amicus Curiae Brief Supporting CEI’s Challenge to the 1998 Tobacco Settlement
Full Document Avalible in PDF On December 10, 2010, five law professors filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in…
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Constitutional Law Amicus Curiae Brief Supporting CEI’s Challenge to the 1998 Tobacco Settlement
Full Document Avalible in PDF On December 10, 2010, prominent constitutional law experts from opposite ends of the political spectrum submitted an…
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High-Speed Rail as the New Political Football?
Over at National Journal‘s Transportation Experts blog, Fawn Johnson asks whether or not high-speed rail has become a new political football in the United…
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Live Blogging: “Fixing The World Economy: Stresses And Solutions”
This is a Live Blog of a Thomson Reuters Event on “Fixing the World Economy.” The speakers are Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund and Chrystia…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Approval of Internet traffic rules likely-analysis: “Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically…
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Judge Should Have Struck Down Entire Law (Letter to the Editor)
This editorial about a federal judge striking down Obamacare’s individual insurance-purchase mandate rightly noted that the law lacks a severability clause. Because of…
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Fed Interchange Price Controls Leave Consumers Paying Big
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve — at the direction of Congress in the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank financial “reform” bill — will give a…
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Federal Reserve’s Interchange Price Controls: Gift to Retailers, Lump of Coal for Consumers
Washington, D.C., December 16, 2010 – This afternoon in a public meeting, the Federal Reserve will release draft rules to implement Dodd-Frank’s Durbin Amendment, which…
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Once Again, the Terrorists Win
All it takes to turn the tables is a bit of common sense. Unfortunately, that may be asking too much.
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Encourage Innovation in Credit Availability
Full Document Available in PDF The abuses of the subprime crisis have made it…
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Recognize the Value of Hedge Funds and Private Equity for Entrepreneurs and Shareholders
Full Document Available in PDF Hedge…
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Interchange Price Controls: Gift to Big Merchants, Lump of Coal for Consumers and Community Financial Institutions
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve — at the direction of Congress in the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank financial “reform” bill — will give…
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Roll Back Burdensome Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Rules
Full Document Available in PDF “How can we have these levels of fictions…
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An Update on State Alcohol Regulations
Here is another installment in the roundup of news regarding the weird and wacky state of alcohol regulation in the U.S.: California: The “sangria…
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CEI Podcast — December 15, 2010: Alcohol Regulations Across the Country
Michelle Minton, CEI's Director of Insurance Studies, takes a whirlwind tour of alcohol regulations across the country.
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Useless College Degrees Proliferate; Millions Waste Lives in Academic Bubble
“Do we need more college grads?,” asks John Leo in Minding the Campus. The answer is surely no: a study highlighted in the Chronicle…
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Afternoon Links: December 15, 2010
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Make Accounting Regulators Accountable
Full Document Available in PDF The flawed valuation models for subprime securities have once again…
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Morning Media Summary
Tech: Air Force Blocks Media Sites: “The U.S. Air Force is blocking its personnel from using work computers to view the websites of…
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States backing out of railroad projects
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Construction Costs Could Rise in Louisiana if Union Plan Advances
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Democrats Diverging From Unions
Government employee unions have long been one of the Democratic Party’s most loyal and dedicated constituencies. For years, Democratic politicians have supported public employee unions’…
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Crying a River for Years
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Budget Hawks Oppose Loan Guarantee Program
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Is Obamacare’s Government Healthcare Takeover a “Civil Right”?
Doug Powers takes aim at the silly argument by the Obama administration that opposing Obamacare is analogous to opposing basic civil rights. As he…
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In Offense of Ben Bernanke, Part III: Bernanke, Blinder, and Underpants Gnomes
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In Offense of Ben Bernanke, Part II: The Natural Rate of Unemployment
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In Offense of Ben Bernanke, Part I: The Fed is Competent?
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Curb and Phase Out Taxpayer-Funded Corporate Bailouts
Full Document Available in PDF Many Republicans and Democrats…
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Reform U.S. Agriculture Programs
Full Document Available in PDF With America facing a lengthy and possible deep recession and…
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Rein in the $1 Trillion Regulatory State
Full Document Available in PDF From transportation to trade, from communications to banking…
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One Nation, Ungovernable?
Full Document Available in PDF As both political parties wrangle over economic stimulus packages and…
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Unemployment Benefits Keep People from Working
Wintery Knight has an interesting discussion of how unemployment benefits keep people from working, drawing on coverage from The New York Times and academic…
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CEI Weekly: Federal Regulations Are Killing Jobs
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Afternoon Links: December 14, 2010
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Obamacare, Eminent Domain, and Trade Wars
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Reactions to Court Ruling Striking Down Part of Obamacare in Virginia v. Sebelius
Yesterday, a federal judge in Richmond struck down Obamacare’s requirement that individuals buy health insurance. Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro reacts to the decision…