News Release
U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Criticizes CEI for Defending Free Speech
Washington Post
At huge libertarian annual fundraiser, absolutely no mention of Donald Trump
The Washington Post
Obama administration is not as transparent as it claims
In trying to explain how the State Department snipped out several embarrassing minutes from a 2013 press briefing video, an agency spokesman claimed that “there…
Foundation for Economic Education
DC Takes Aim at Airbnb, Hits Existing Rental Industry
Washington, DC’s new regulations on Airbnb and similar businesses could end up killing off old-fashioned bed-and-breakfasts. Airbnb, the service that allows owners to rent out…
Washington Examiner
Dem AG: Free speech no defense against climate crimes
The Washington Examiner reports on the Attorney General Claude Walker's denial that his subpoena served to CEI violates the Constitution. The attorney general was responding…
Cook County Record
Quick payoff or material disclosure? 7th Circuit to weigh in on Walgreens shareholder class action deal
Cook County Record discusses Center for Class Action Fairness's objection to the unfair class action settlement in the Hays v. Walgreens Co. case. …
Lexology
What do Employment Law and Skydiving have in common? Part I: The Big Picture
Lexology cites Trey Kovacs on the Department of Labor's policy objectives behind the overtime pay rule. There were two policy objectives set forth…
Blog
2016 CEI Dinner Movie: A Night in Casablanca
Blog
First Amendment Forbids Ideological Discrimination in Protecting Rallies
Anti-Trump demonstrators beat up Trump supporters outside a Trump rally in San Jose, California this week, while police initially did nothing but watch. As Buzzfeed…
Blog
Attorney General Lynch Refuses to Defend Law to Speedily Terminate Wrongdoers
Attorney General refuses to defend law passed by Congress to speedily terminate wrongdoers One of an Attorney General’s fundamental duties is to defend laws passed…
Blog
Administration’s War on Work Reflected in Jobs Numbers
The administration and its allies are currently engaged in a regulatory onslaught on employers that can only be described as a war on work. Today’s…
Blog
Six People You’ll See at the CEI Dinner
Blog
The Seventh Circuit Considers a Costly But Useless Shareholder Settlement in the Walgreens Merger
OK, that’s a slight exaggeration. In recent years, about 97 percent of sizable mergers (those valued at $100 million or more) have been hit by…
National Review
Meet Tom Perez
National Review discusses the work of Secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez, with Iain Murray. Iain Murray, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s vice president of strategy,…
Politico
Payday Lending Rule Fly-Around
Politico's Morning Money features John Berlau's statement on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new payday lending rule. CEI’s John Berlau: “The CFPB's rule…
Newsmax
GMU Profs Worked to Silence Climate Change Skeptics
Newsmax discusses with Chris Horner the emails CEI uncovered through their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that reveal professors petitioning the government to prosecute global…
Cato Unbound
The Administrative State Lacks Its Own Justification: Expertise
Legitimacy notwithstanding, we tend to discuss the administrative state as if it is a functioning expert entity, taking expertise in its divisions for granted. But…
Study
Toward a Thinker/Doer Alliance: A Grand Strategy for Liberty Advocates
By Fred L. Smith, Jr. Director, Center for Advancing Capitalism Speech delivered at Hillsdale College Hillsdale, Michigan…
Daily Caller
Feds Publish Over 2,000 Pages Of New Regs In ONE WEEK
The Daily Caller discusses new rules published in the Federal Register with Ryan Young. The Obama administration has been busy implementing what remains…
Fox News
Climate spin: Behind-the-scenes emails show profs evading questions
Fox News reports on emails CEI found in their FOIA lawsuit against George Mason University professors that reveals their petition to the government to prosecute…
Forbes
Bureaucracy’s Paradox: When Fewer Regulations Mean Less Freedom
"To limit abuse by the rulers, ancient Rome wrote down the law and permitted citizens to read it. Under Dodd-Frank, regulatory authority is…
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
Study
The Rising Tide
Study
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…