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Report: Brexit Britain Open for Business with Market-Based Reforms
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Victory in Class Action Case by Mere Threat of Objection by CEI
Study
Cutting the Gordian Knot
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Our Fight against Government Intimidation
Regardless of which policies you support, any assault on free speech is profoundly unjust. And when that assault is coordinated by high-ranking government officials, it’s…
Citation
Unlawful and Un-American: How Our Leaders Are Attacking Your First Amendment Rights
RealClear Markets
Wal-Mart’s Jet.com Buy Puts Online Sales Tax at the Forefront
The Atlantic
Could Reviving a Defunct Banking Rule Prevent a Future Crisis?
The Atlantic features John Berlau's argument against the revival of the Glass-Steagall rule. Election years are a time when politicians put on their…
Forbes
CFPB Anti-Arbitration Rule Will Harm Consumers and FinTech
"Gotcha!" That’s what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) claims binding arbitration clauses in consumer finance contracts often amount to. In these clauses, consumers agree…
Washington Examiner
Climate change-doubting group slams AGs for ‘un-American’ investigation
Washington Examiner reports on CEI’s video about the subpoena they recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker. A group targeted by Democratic attorneys general…
Legal NewsLine
Fight over airline e-cigarette ban focuses on ‘agency overreach’
Legal NewsLine discusses CEI's legal challenge to the Department of Transportation's ban of electronic cigarettes on airplanes with Marc Scribner. The Competitive Enterprise…
Daily Caller
Britain’s Plan To Save Energy By Paying Businesses To Shut Down Falls Apart
The Daily Caller quotes Myron Ebell on Britain's gid operators' decision to pay for "negative electricity" when there isn't enough power to meet demand. …
News Release
CEI Releases Video Defending Rights to Free Speech
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Comments to the CFPB on Barring Arbitration Agreements
View Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we are pleased to provide the following comments on the…
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RealClear Radio Hour: Brexit and Regulatory Rebellion
In this week’s episode, Julian Morris, Iain Murray, and Richard Williams make the case for Britain’s regulatory rebellion and chart the path forward from Brexit.
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Can a New President Cut Regulations Unilaterally?
Both presidential candidates have delivered economic speeches over the past two weeks, and both have at least given a nod to red tape and the…
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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
Friday’s Federal Register was one of the year’s biggest, with 74 agency notices, 4 proposed regulations and 15 final regulations spanning 1,119 pages.
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CEI Opposes Regulator Limits on Arbitration Option for Financial Products
The Competitive Enterprise Institute on Monday submitted public comments with the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) opposing a proposed rule to limit the option…
Forbes
How The Next President Can Use Executive Power To Jumpstart Economic Growth On Day One (Part 2)
The Federal Register contained over 7,700 rules and regulations among an all-time-record 73,000 pages the year President Reagan was elected. One response was his Executive…
New Jersey Civil Justice Institute
Court Cracks Down On Attorneys Lining Their Pockets Under the Guise of Protecting the Little Guy
New Jersey Civil Justice Institute discusses with Ted Frank the recent Center for Class Action Fairness's victory in their objection to a proposed settlement.
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NLRB’s New Joint Employer Standard Strikes Again
Just about one year ago, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) dramatically changed the rules on how companies are allowed to contract with other businesses…
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Uber Announces Self-Driving Passenger Pilot, Raises New Regulatory Questions
It was just announced that Uber will soon begin piloting its automated vehicle prototype in Pittsburgh—with passengers. This is not the first automated vehicle…
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Government Wage Mandates Bad for Business and Workers
Wage and hour mandates have seen an uptick of late at the federal, state, and local level.
Foundation for Economic Education
Our Media-Driven Epistemological Breakdown
Forbes
How The Next President Can Use Executive Power To Jumpstart Economic Growth On Day One (Part 1)
After what will have been eight years of debate over executive overreach and Barack Obama’s “pen and phone,” and it will be time for…
U.S. News & World Report
SolarCity Announces Layoffs, Co-Founders Take Massive Salary Cuts
U.S. News & World Report discusses SolarCity's announcment of major layoffs with Myron Ebell. "It looks like its further confirmation, despite massive federal and…
Blog
Learn Your Workplace Rights with National Employee Freedom Week
The supposedly non-partisan NLRB is woefully inadequate in educating workers on their rights related to opting out of paying full-fledged union dues.
Washington Examiner
America to hand off Internet in under two months
Washington Examiner reports on the handoff of American control of the Internet and highlights CEI's letter to Congress on the issue. Opponents similarly made the…
Bloomberg BNA
Disclosure-Only Settlement Over Walgreens Boots Deal Nixed
Bloomberg BNA reports on CEI's Center for Class Action Fairness's win in their objection against a settlement that granted huge attorneys fees but left class…
Legal Newsline
Federal court rejects proposed class action settlement in Similasan case
Legal Newsline reports on CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s objection to the Similasan class action settlement. To fight the settlement, Arizona, Texas…
Blog
This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
88 new regulations last week, from poultry improvement to nuclear philosophy.
Wall Street Journal
Posner vs. the Plaintiffs Bar
One of life’s more bracing experiences is being on the receiving end of an opinion by federal Judge Richard Posner, and this week it couldn’t…
The Washington Free Beacon
Survey: 3 in 10 Union Members Want Out
The Washington Free Beacon discusses National Employee Freedom Week with Trey Kovacs. Trey Kovacs, a labor expert at the free market Competitive Enterprise…
Washington Examiner
One in four union members favors right-to-work
Washington Examiner discusses National Employee Freedom Week with Trey Kovacs. "National Employee Freedom Week is a crucial public service to counteract this assault…
Reason
The Economic Stimulus Perplex: Could Regulation Be the Problem?
Reason cites the calculated cost of federal regulations from Wayne Crews's annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. Perhaps the answer to what ails the…
Investor's Business Daily
The ‘Green 20’ Attorneys General Try End-Run Around Congress
Investor's Business Daily discusses government officials' investigations into CEI's climate change research as an attempt to silence debate on the issue. Many on…
Daily Signal
Congress Waits for Obama’s Final Regulatory Costs Report, Later Than Usual
The Daily Signal discusses the need for a regulatory budget with Wayne Crews. “The reason this matters to the general public is that we…
Washington Post
Preserving the prairie
The Aug. 8 front-page article “Prairie, farmers’ old enemy, could be their lifeline,” about the environmental importance of Midwestern prairies, failed to mention why…
News-Gazette
Appellate Judge Sends Lawyers’ Windfall up in Smoke
The News-Gazette covers CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’ Walgreens case: It’s a textbook example of a legal shakedown conducted by lawyers who…
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RealClear Radio Hour: Taxpayers on the Hook
This week on RealClear Radio Hour, Michael Tanner tallies Uncle Sam’s ballooning entitlement debt and Romina Boccia pulls back the cover on the Beltway crony…
Forbes
Capitalism and the Candidates
As a longtime advocate for capitalism, I’ve been considering the prospects for free market ideas in a White House presided over by either of the…
Daily Caller
Wind Industry Furious That Wyoming Is Taxing Wind Turbines
The Daily Caller discusses Wyoming's plan to raise taxes on a wind power project with Myron Ebell. Construction on thePower Company of Wyoming’s…
News Release
Survey: One-Third of Union Workers Would Opt Out of Membership
A new survey shows nearly 30 percent of union members nationwide would opt out of union membership if they knew they could keep their job…
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Celebrating Two Great Economists: Bruce Yandle and Julian Simon
I’d like to second my colleague Fred’s birthday wishes for the distinguished economist Bruce Yandle of Clemson University.
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Bruce Yandle’s Remarks at the 2016 CEI Dinner
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Happy Birthday to Economist Bruce Yandle
Bruce Yandle – a great economic scholar at Clemson University for many years and recipient of the 2016 Julian Simon Award – reaches his 83rd…
Blog
West Virginia Court Blocks “Right-to-Work” Law, Restricts Worker Choice
Workers in the state to have most recently enacted right to work, West Virginia, have lost their freedom to choose whether or not to financially…
Blog
The Cinematic Legacy of CEI Studios
Over the years we’ve hosted a lot of policy and social events in our current office, but we’ve also written and filmed some creative videos…
Reason
“The Alternative To Innovation Is Not Stability. It’s Stagnation.”
Reason discusses capitalism and innovation with CEI's found Fred Smith. "The alternative to innovation is not stability," says Fred L. Smith, who founded…
Trib Live
Saturday Q&A: How NLRB muddled the joint employer standard
Trey Kovacs is a policy analyst focusing on labor issues for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. He spoke to the Trib…
Law 360
Trump, Clinton Tout Infrastructure Spending, With Few Details
Law 360 discusses the presidential candidates' positions on infastruture with Marc Scribner. Trump to spur economic growth with increased infrastructure investment have stoked…