Watchdog.org
Get ready for Obamaloans: New regs could drive payday lenders out of business
Watchdog.org discusses the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's plan to crackdown on payday lending with Iain Murray. Iain Murray, a vice president at the…
Washington Times
Climate spin doctor took charge after professors’ ‘mistake’ called for prosecuting skeptics
The Washington Times reports on emails revealed through CEI's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and discusses their content with Chris Horner. The latest…
News Release
CEI Expert Warns: CFPB Payday Lending Rule Will Hurt the Poor
The CFPB is expected to propose a new rule on June 2 restricting so-called payday lending. CEI financial policy expert John Berlau warns that new…
Blog
One Enlightened Statesman: Sen. Rand Paul Pauses TSCA Bill
Three cheers to Senator Rand Paul for actually caring enough to read legislation before voting on its passage. Last week, he held up legislation…
Blog
Inequality: Policies That Work, and Policies That Don’t
CEI recently released a pair of papers by Iain Murray and me about economic inequality. The first encourages activists to ask the right questions: think…
Blog
RealClear Radio Hour: Latin American Politics, Jazz, and Freedom
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
The Congressional Review Act deadline for the possible midnight regulation rush has now likely passed, though the Federal Register once again topped 2,000 pages last week. That…
News Release
CEI Challenges Lawyers’ Multi-Million Dollar Pay Day in Global Fitness Settlement
Investor's Business Daily
Inequality Is A Matter Of People, Not Numbers
From presidential candidates on down, everyone worries about economic inequality these days. In an era of stagnant job and wage growth, that’s a fair concern.
Inside Sources
Can Alternative Energy Replace Fossil Fuels?
Portugal recently obtained four days’ worth of electricity from hydropower dams, wind turbines, cultivated biomass, and other renewable sources. That’s after the small Iberian…
Newsmax
Al Gore, Democratic State Attorneys Generals Out to Silence Climate Change Dissenters
Newsmax discusses with Sam Kazman the subpoena CEI recieved from an attorney general as part of an intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change.
Fox News
Senators to AG: Stop Targeting Opponents of Obama’s Energy Policies
Fox News reports on the supoena CEI recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker and discusses its impact with Sam Kazman. Within days of…
Forbes
What CEOs Should Be Saying About Inequality
Despite living at a time of unprecedented decreases in poverty around the world, we’re witnessing a seemingly unprecedented increase in worry about income…
Citation
VIDEO: Sam Kazman Discusses CEI’s Climate Change Subpoena on Fox News
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Cato Unbound
No Law Passed, Not Even A Regulation Promulgated—But Servitude Nonetheless
In my last post I suggested that I may point out a few prominent examples of agencies regulating with “guidance” alone rather than the notice-and-comment…
Blog
Federal Regulations Affecting Small Business
It is often said that there is no such thing as a free lunch, something particularly true for the small businessperson. The “Small Business…
Blog
NLRB Downplays Pro-Union Threats
Union bias permeates the actions of the current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This is hardly surprising since a former union lawyer, Richard Griffin,…
Products
Report: Taxing The Rich Won’t Fix Income Inequality
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Court Will Soon Decide Fate of FCC’s Ill-Conceived Internet Regulations
Any day now, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is expected to release its decision in U.S. Telecom Association v. FCC.
National Review
Crushing Climate-Change Dissent for Profit
National Review reports on CEI's fight against the unlawful subpoena they recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker. Which brings us back to Claude Walker…
Blog
More on “Inequality”
In serendipitous timing, the Institute of Economic Affairs in London released a new study this week entitled “Never Mind The Gap: Why we…
Blog
Unions and Environmentalists Oppose Plan to Address California’s Rising Housing Costs
Everyone’s for affordable housing—except, it seems, some unions and environmentalists. On May 18, a coalition of unions and environmental advocacy groups—including the State Building &…
Blog
Raise, Don’t Level: New CEI Papers on Inequality and Poverty Relief
Economic inequality is one of today’s defining issues. How to address it? Iain Murray and I offer an unconventional approach in a new two-part CEI…
Blog
Obama Administration Harms Students in Many Ways
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The Rising Tide
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People, Not Ratios
Washington Times
Muzzling attempt unconstitutional
Robert Knight rightly condemns the harassment of dissenters by left-wing attorneys general (“The dawn of totalitolerance,” Web, May 22). As he notes, Virgin Islands Attorney…
National Review
“Income Inequality” – Missing the Point
President Obama, Paul Krugman tells us, has declared war on income inequality. In fact, income inequality is at the root of just about everything…
Washington Free Beacon
Attorney General Withdraws Subpoena Against Climate Group
The Washington Free Beacon reports on CEI's response to the attack on their free speech they recieved in the form of a subpoena from Attorney General…
Legal NewsLine
U.S. Senate passes resolution to block DOL’s fiduciary rule
Legal NewsLine discusses Congress's resolution of disapproval blocking the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule with John Berlau. John Berlau, a financial policy expert at…
Wall Street Journal
We’re All in Disney World
The Wall Street Journal recommends Wayne Crews's annual study on the size and cost of federal regulations. We want to get to the…
One News Now
CEI pushes back after AG drops subpoena
One News Now discusses Attorney General Claude Walker withdrawing the subpoena against CEI with Sam Kazman. In recent days, Walker dropped his subpoena…
News Release
Report Offers Reform Roadmap to Improve Lives, End Poverty
Blog
CEI Asks Court to Sanction U.S. Virgin Islands AG for Baseless, Retaliatory Subpoena
On Monday, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker agreed to revoke a subpoena he obtained from the D.C. Superior Court last month,…
Blog
Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists: No Illusions about Germany’s “Energy Turnaround”
In a previous post I poked fun at the “Doomsday Clock” of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. For 60 years, the Bulletin has…
News Release
CEI Finance Policy Expert Supports Senate’s Vote to Block Fiduciary Rule
Today, the Senate voted against the Labor Department's fiduciary rule by approving the House-passed resolution of disapproval, under Congressional Review Act auspices. CEI financial policy expert…
Fox News
AG drops climate change subpoena against libertarian think tank
Fox News reports on CEI's lawsuit in response to the subpoena they recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker which was an attack on CEI's First…
Washington Examiner
Virgin Islands relents on think tank subpoena
Washington Examiner reports on CEI's response to the subpoena they recieved which is an attack on their free speech. The U.S. Virgin Islands attorney…
Cato Unbound
On the Administrative State’s Illegitimacy
"Who is better than overreaching bureaucrats to decide when the bureaucrats are overreaching?” That was one respondent’s characterization of the mindset that provoked the recently…
Citation
VIDEO: Trey Kovacs cited on The McLaughlin Group
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Legal Newsline
Public interest firm takes fight over class action settlement to U.S. SC
Legal NewsLine discusses CEI's Center for Class Action Fairness's petition filed with the Supreme Court with Adam Schulman. A Washington, D.C.-based public interest…
Blog
RealClear Radio Hour: On-Demand Internet Service & Medical Testing
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Appeals Court: Students Qualify for FOIA Fee Waivers
Under the Freedom of Information Act, you can obtain government records, but usually you have to pay for them. But the law limits the fees…
Blog
White House Supports Bill that Exempts Puerto Rico from New Overtime Regulation
Progressives praised the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule as a way to fatten workers’ pockets and a means to strengthen the middle class. If…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
As mentioned earlier, something of a regulatory midnight rush is happening right now. The Federal Register topped 2,000 pages for the third time in four weeks—a rare…
Politico
Politico Morning Energy on New York Times Ad
Politico's Morning Energy highlights CEI's full page advertisement in the New York Times to defend free speech. The Competitive Enterprise Institute took out…
Washington Examiner
States constitutions can rein in union subsidy
On May 10, the Arizona Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could provide a roadmap to eliminate a persistent form of government…
Washington Times
Virgin Islands AG revokes climate-change subpoena after being criticized for ‘abuse of power’
The Washington Times disucsses Attorney General Claude Walker's withdrawl of the DC subpoena of CEI, which was part of an intimidation campaign to silence the debate on…
Washington Times
Killing the regulatory parasite
The Washington Times highlights Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and costs of federal regulations. From the new annual report, Ten Thousand…
Daily Signal
Virgin Islands AG Withdraws Climate Change Subpoena Against Think Tank
The Daily Signal reports on Attorney General Claude Walker revoking a subpoena which was an attack on CEI's First Amendment rights. The U.S.
