Fox News
Dem AGs mounting Big Tobacco-style probe of oil companies, industry fights back
Fox News reports on CEI's decision to fight the subpoena they recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker. The stories also claimed the fossil fuel…
Washington Times
Intimidation through investigation
The Washington Times discusses the subpoena Attorney General Claude Walker sent CEI as part of the intimidation campaign to silence debate on global warming. …
Blog
Federal Minimum Wage: The Case of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is in crisis and drowning in debt. Now it looks like the island’s Development Bank, set up to raise living standards in the…
Litigation
Rodriguez v. It’s Just Lunch International
The Center for Class Action Fairness represents National class member Michael Barton in objecting to this nationwide class action. CCAF filed an objection on behalf of…
Blog
Netflix’s Throttling Scandal: Possibly Illegal, But Not an FCC Matter
As one of the chief agitators behind the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) controversial effort to regulate Internet service providers like public utilities, Netflix has long portrayed…
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RealClear Radio Hour: Enterprising Africa & Entrepreneurial Allure
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How to Address Income Inequality
Over at the Foundation for Economic Education, Iain Murray and I give a short preview of our two forthcoming CEI papers on income inequality…
Blog
Ed Snider: Farewell to a Business Legend
Today is a sad day for fans of capitalism and Philadelphia sports alike. Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and sports industry legend Ed Snider passed away over…
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Minimum Wages Tradeoffs: Are They Worth It?
Minimum wages help some workers, but only at other workers’ expense. Whether or not these tradeoffs are worth it is for each individual to decide.
Blog
California Minimum Wage Hike Could Cost State Taxpayers $10 Billion
California’s legislative analyst projects that the recent increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour will cost taxpayers $3.6 billion more a year in…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
Another Friday meant another 699-page Federal Register, which now exceeds 20,000 pages on the year. The big news is a fiduciary rule for retirement planning, but…
Blog
Obama Administration Releases New Climate Scare Report
The Obama administration last week released The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment. The 333-page report “significantly…
Foundation for Economic Education
Why Is the Middle Class So Angry?
The middle class is angry. Feeling left out of sharing in the nation’s prosperity the way they used to, they are increasingly turning to…
CapX
Let’s stop making air transport security worse
A few weeks ago, I planned a trip to Berlin for mid-March. I initially thought to tack on a couple of extra days to conduct…
The Daily Signal
Liberal AGs Have Begun a War Against the First Amendment
The Daily Signal reports on the subpoena sent to CEI by Attorney General Claude E. Walker in attempts to silence the climate change debate. …
USA Today
Dear attorneys general, conspiring against free speech is a crime: Glenn Reynolds
USA Today reports on the subpoena that was sent to CEI as an attempt to silence the climate change debate. This investigation, which…
American Legislative Exchange Council
What Can be Done after Friedrichs?
Public sector workers in over 20 states must continue paying union dues, like it or not, after the Supreme Court deadlocked in Friedrichs v California…
Talk Media News
Monday, April 11, 2016
Talk Media News reports on CEI's Center for Class Action Fairness's appeal of the Target data breach settlement. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center…
Real Clear Policy
Minimum Wage: Is Job Loss Acceptable?
Finally, some minimum-wage advocates are acknowledging the policy's tradeoffs. New School economics professor David Howell recently asked the Washington Post, "Why shouldn't we in…
News Release
CEI Objects to It’s Just Lunch Settlement
Objecting today to the nationwide class action settlement in Rodriguez v. It’s Just Lunch, The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness (CEI) seeks…
Blog
Wisconsin Judge Rules that Workers’ Wages are Unions’ Property
On Friday, April 8, a Wisconsin judge handed unions a surprising victory—surprising because of the argument behind his decision.
Washington Times
More studies rebut climate change consensus amid government crackdown on dissent
The Washington Times reports on the subpoena sent to CEI by Attorney General Claude Walker. The latest government crackdown on climate dissent, exemplified…
American Thinker
Competitive Enterprise Institute subpoenaed in global warming ‘fraud’ investigation
The American Thinker reports on the subpoena an attorney general sent CEI in an effort to silence the debate on climate change. The Competitive…
AL.com
Al Gore’s climate gestapo seeks to punish political dissent
AL.com reports on the subpoena an attorney general sent CEI as part of their attempt to silence the climate change debate. Al Gore's…
Blog
Attorney General’s Climate Investigation Subpoenas CEI
The attorney general of the U. S. Virgin Islands, Claude E. Walker, has subpoenaed the Competitive Enterprise Institute for a stunningly wide array of documents…
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RIP Merle Haggard
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State-Sponsored Slavery and the Destruction of Small Businesses
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Attorneys General Launch Intimidation Campaign with Subpoena against CEI
Days after CEI criticized investigations of Exxon by State Attorneys General over its speech related to climate change, CEI was hit with a subpoena demanding…
News Release
CEI Appeals Target Data Breach Settlement That Freezes Out Millions of Customers
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness this week appealed a settlement deal giving $6.75 million to plaintiffs’ lawyers in the aftermath of…
Washington Examiner
Group: Al Gore using ‘McCarthy-style tactics’ to criminalize climate change critics
The Washington Examiner reports on the subpoena that is an affront on CEI's First Amendment rights. The well-respected Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute said…
Politico
Steyer’s questions for Senate hopefuls- CEI Ready to Fight Climate Docs Subpoena
Politico's Morning Energy reports on the subpoena sent to CEI from Attorney General Claude Walker. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market policy…
Wall Street Journal
AM Roundup: A Final Flurry of Regulations – ‘Climate denial’ probe
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog discusses the subpoena sent to CEI. The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands has subpoenaed the…
The Hill
Think tank vows to fight climate change subpoena
The Hill reports on the subpoena sent to CEI from Attorney General Claude Walker. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank based…
Wall Street Journal
Think Tank Skeptical of Global Warming Calls Subpoena an ‘Affront to First Amendment Rights’
The Wall Street Journal reports on the subpoena an attorney general sent CEI to silence the debate on climate change. A coalition of…
Independent Sentinel
Greatest Threat to Free Speech…AGs Launch Their First Assault Against Climate Change Skeptics
The Independent Sentinel reports on the subpoena sent to CEI as a part of the Attorneys General's campaign to silence those who disagree with them on…
Bloomberg
Subpoenaed Into Silence on Global Warming
Bloomberg View reports on the subpoena an attorney general sent CEI to silence the debate on climate change. The Competitive Enterprise Institute is getting…
The New American
Alarmist Prosecutor Demands E-mails from Climate Skeptics
The New American reports on the subpoena sent to CEI as a part of the Attorneys General's campaign to silence the debate on climate change. …
TheBlaze
‘Outrageous Violation of the First Amendment’: State AGs Take the Next Step in Going After Climate Change Skeptics
TheBlaze reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the Attorneys General's campaign to silence debate on climate change. The Competitive Enterprise…
Reason
Free Speech Attack by Attorneys General in ExxonMobil Climate Change Probe of Skeptical Non-Profit
Reason reports on the subpoena sent to CEI by an attorney general in efforts to silence the climate change debate. In service of…
Examiner
Speech-chilling subpoena issued by Virgin Islands AG in climate investigation
Yesterday, just a few days after the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) criticized investigations of Exxon by state Attorneys General over its speech related to climate…
Cato At Liberty
Our Friends at CEI Face a Subpoena Over Climate Dissent
Cato At Liberty discusses the subpoena sent to CEI which is an attack on First Amendment rights. The campaign to attach legal consequences to…
Library of Law and Liberty
The New Eco Tyranny
Last week, the attorneys general of 20 states met at a conference “dedicated to coming up with creative ways to enforce laws being flouted by…
Simple Justice
The CEI Subpoena Cannot Stand
Simple Justice discusses the subpoena sent to CEI by an attorney general in attempts to silence the debate on climate change. It’s another…
Charleston Gazette-Mail
Trey Kovacs: NLRB rule threatens worker privacy
Poll after poll indicates Americans value their privacy. Yet government is a top offender in this regard, with federal agencies infringing on private citizens’ information…
Blog
Is GE a Capitalist Good Guy or a Corporate Bad Guy?
General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt has an interesting op-ed today in the Washington Post, hitting back against charges that his company is “destroying…
Inside Sources
NLRB Rule Threatens Worker Right to Privacy
Poll after poll indicates Americans value their privacy. Yet government is a top offender in this regard, with federal agencies infringing on private citizens’ information…
Washington Times
Climate change fears put wolverine on endangered species watch
The Washington Times discusses the Endangered Species Act with Myron Ebell. “The Endangered Species Act is a natural place to take over the…
Daily Caller
Liberal AG Probes Free Market Think Tank For Questioning Global Warming
The Daily Caller reports on the subpoena an attorney general sent CEI regarding their work on climate change. AG General Claude Walker served…
Washington Times
Virgin Islands AG raises free-speech fears with subpoena for climate dissenters
The Washington Times reports on the subpoena an attorney general sent CEI regarding documents on climate change work. One of the 17 attorneys…
Conservative Review
‘Intimidation Campaign’: Subpoenaed Free Market Group Blasts AG’s Climate Change Shutuppery
The Conservative Review reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the Attorneys General's campaign to silence those who disagree with them on climate…