Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Set free our risktakers
The Pittsburg Post-Gazette references Wayne Crews's article on the cost of federal regulations. Businesses must spend more than $1.75 trillion each year to…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
To Stimulate Economy, End Predatory Abuse Of Antitrust
Among numerous steps needed to stimulate a double-dipping economy, one is to make antitrust not pay anymore. AT&T’s $39 billion merger with T-Mobile (a…
Wall Street Journal
Not So Cool Rules
The Wall Street Journal cites Wayne Crews's study on the size of the federal regulatory burden. The best measure of the overall regulatory…
Blog
Obama’s Regulatory Reform: The Costs of Benefits
My colleagues commented above on the Cass Sunstein lecture at the American Enterprise Institute called "Regulatory Look-Back: A First Look," about agency's supposed eagerness to…
Blog
The FCC is Broken
A new report in The Hill notes House Republicans’ concern over “dysfunction” at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the need for overhaul. Their…
Wall Street Journal
When Washington Fails a Cost-Benefit Test
Today I’m pretending I’m a bureaucrat, and I’ve decided you shouldn’t do backflips on a pogo stick. Also, nousing a pogo…
Blog
It’s Nothing Death, Poverty, and Ignorance Can’t Fix
The New York Times “Room for Debate” frets today about overpopulation (h/t Don Boudreaux). Julian Simon and liberty have long since come…
Roll Call
Federal Rules Fight Sparks Reunion
Roll Call discusses the costs of federal regulation with Wayne Crews. Wayne Crews, vice president for policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, just…
Roll Call
Ten Thousand Commandments: How Much Regulation Is Enough?
President Barack Obama’s recent federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 sought $3.729 trillion in discretionary, entitlement and interest spending. For reference, George W. Bush…
Investors' Business Daily
Regulation Cuts Must Be Part Of Serious Reform
Spending reform is all the rage in Washington, with both parties offering proposals to rein in the deficit. President Obama has proposed a mix…
The Sacramento Bee
Regulation: The Hidden Tax
Appeared: The Sacramento Bee, …
NCPA
Regulation Day
National Center for Policy Analysis discusses regulation costs with Iain Murray and references Wayne Crews's study. Every year we are reminded how much…
NCPA
The ‘hidden tax’: Report estimates regulation costs economy $1.75 trillion
Washington Times
Red tape recession
The Washington Times reports on Wayne Crews's study on the federal regulatory burden. On Monday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released its analysis…
Newsmax
Hidden Tax’: Govt Rules Cost Economy Nearly $2 Trillion
Newsmax reports on Wayne Crews's study on the size of the federal regulatory burden. Even as politicians and pundits debate taxes and spending —…
Forbes
The Economy Needs A ‘Deregulatory Stimulus’
Forbes references Wayne Crews's study on regulation. Assessing the width and breadth of the regulatory state is Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive…
New American
CEI Targets Regulations in Annual Report
The New American highlights the report on the regulatory state by Wayne Crews. The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a report today entitled Ten…
Cato At Liberty
If There Were An Annual ‘Regulation Day’
Cato at Liberty points to the writings on regulation of experts Iain Murray and Wayne Crews. As Iain Murray points out at National…
Blog
Defending Nature via Property Rights
Elizabeth Brubaker describes why the institutions of private property are needed to defend nature, and why modern control policies that undermine them contribute to pollution…
Washington Times
Trillion Dollar Rules
The Washington Times features Wayne Crews's study on the size of the federal regulatory state. As a fitting finale for tax season, keep…
Study
Ten Thousand Commandments 2011
President Barack Obama’s new federal budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2012 seeks $3.729 trillion in discretionary, entitlement, and interest spending. In the previous fiscal…
Boston Globe
Google Cleared for ITA Purchase
The Boston Globe discusses the Google antitrust lawsuit settlement with Wayne Crews. The settlement came under fire from Wayne Crews, vice president for…
Boston Globe
Still Burning Witches at the FCC
It seems that things are never quite perfect enough these days for the Federal Communications Commission to elect to leave competitive communications markets alone. When…
American Thinker
Regulatory Dysfunction
American Thinker references Wayne Crews's study on the cost of government regulations. In a 2008 review of the cost of government regulations entitled…
American Thinker
Antitrust In the Airwaves?
For a moment there I was thrilled that AT&T and T-Mobile were merging, thinking how great it’ll be to finally get reception this coming Easter…
American Thinker
Cybersecurity Theater vs. The Real Thing
Computer attacks cost mid-to large size businesses $3.8 million annually on average , and generate massive global damage. Some homeland security and cybersecurity specialists even warn…
EWeek
White House Asks for Do Not Track Legislation
EWeek discusses legislation on "Do Not Track" search engine features with Wayne Crews. Congress should be very wary politically defining "Do Not Track,"…
Blog
Deirdre McCloskey on “Bourgeois Dignity”
EWeek
How About a Budget for Regulations?
We have a bad fiscal budgetary process that institutionally isn’t capable of controlling the trajectory of federal spending in any direction but up. We need…
EWeek
Cyber Insecurity: Flip That Internet “Kill Switch” Plan
Unless there’s a major critical infrastructure failure, cybersecurity’s never going to be a pop culture concern like Cee-Lo Green or Christina at the Super Bowl.
EWeek
Regulation Destabilization: Time For Reform, Washington
On Feb. 14, President Obama will release his fiscal budget. It’ll be big. But even that alternate universe tells only part of the story of…
Investors' Business Daily
Regulation Without Representation
Regulatory agencies enact more than 3,500 new regulations in an average year. A new federal rule hits the books roughly every two hours, 24…
Investors' Business Daily
Mis-State Of The Union
Politicians rarely think voluntary markets are so grand that they couldn’t benefit from a good ol’ dose of compulsion. It’s a shame, because that…
Blog
The State of the Union Address in Five Words
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What Should POTUS Say During SOTU?
Freedom Action‘s Myron Ebell, while he isn’t optimistic, answers on a POLITICO forum: In an ideal world, President Barack Obama would use his…
Boston Globe
Obama — the Great Deregulator?
The Boston Globe cites Wayne Crews's comments on President Obama's executive order to stop "outdated" federal regulations. “This executive order is hardly a…
Blog
The Hidden Cost of Going Green
Here’s a sobering read at SmartMoney on how green products that are supposed to save money can take longer than expected for payback. This holds…
AOL News
6 Painless Ways to Cut Federal Red Tape
In this age of trillion-dollar budgets, deficits and stimulus packages, taxes and spending get all the press. But while the $3.5 trillion federal budget…
Wall Street Journal
Move Reflect Shift In Presidents Tone
The Wall Street Journal discusses regulations and executive orders with Wayne Crews. He didn't disavow the Dodd-Frank Act nor his new health-care law,…
Study
Protect Free Speech by Rejecting Content Regulation
Liberate to Stimulate Index In recent years, the First Amendment’s protections have been increasingly extended to commercial speech, such as product advertisements…
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Forge a Bipartisan Approach to End Corporate Welfare
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Regulate Government Data Collection While Avoiding Perscriptive Privacy Regulation
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Resist Anti Consumer Antitrust Regulation
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Deregulate to Stimulate
Liberate to Stimulate Index When it comes to our economy, how did we get into this mess and how do we get…
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Avoid Hindering the Internet’s Evolution through Net Neutrality Regulation
Liberate to Stimulate Index In 2010, Congress failed to enact legislation authorizing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enforce network neutrality rules.
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Rein in the $1.75 Trillion Regulatory State
Liberate to Stimulate Index Regulations are frequently anti-competitive and anti-consumer. They cost consumers hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Policy makers…
Wall Street Journal
Obama Needs To Confront Regulation
Today President Obama released an Executive Order called “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review.” It calls for a government-wide review of rules,…
Fox News
Jobs and Regulation — Is Obama Finally Getting Serious About Solutions?
Fox News discusses the size of the regulatory state with Wayne Crews. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews, the regulatory state stood…
Government Executive
Obama orders review of agency regulations
Government Executive discusses executive overreach and its effects with Wayne Crews. But others said the changes are too little and too late. The…
The WHIR
What’s hampering innovation?
The WHIR discusses regulation approval processes with Wayne Crews. Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute took the first position. He feels that…