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Feds Double Down on Failed Affordable Housing Mandates
Federal affordable housing mandates do little to increase homeownership rates, but they did help cause a devastating financial crisis in 2008 by encouraging risky lending. Yet the Federal…
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Is President Obama’s Energy Wish Coming True?
In a January 17, 2008, interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, then-Senator Obama said that “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” under his plan to…
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Dodd-Frank Act Strangles Small Banks
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act was enacted partly to end “too-big-to-fail” banks, but it has done quite the opposite. It has curbed competition with big banks…
WND
Another White House Email Scandal Erupts
WND reports on CEI's Freedom of Information Act request, quoting Sam Kazman on the issue. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science…
Legal Brief
Amicus Brief: United States Telecom Association v. FCC
Full Document Available in PDF A handful of telecom companies sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its Open Internet Order, also…
The Boston Herald
Feds go too far
The Herald was right to criticize the Obama administration’s recently imposed “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” rule (“Fed housing overreach,” July 19). It wrongly seeks to…