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Should Agencies Be Self-Funded?
If an agency is doing a poor job pursuing its mission, it needs to be held accountable; there is a reason Congress holds the power…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
69 new regulations, from grading almonds to lost luggage.
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CEI Podcast For March 7, 2013: The Three-Sided Immigration Debate
Immigration Policy Analyst David Bier recently wrote for USA Today about a third side in the ongoing immigration debate: population control advocates who oppose immigration…
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Costco CEO Favors Minimum Wage Hike
An overlooked argument in the minimum wage debate is that a high minimum wage gives big businesses an artificial competitive advantage over their smaller competitors.
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Making The FCC More Transparent
If there's one thing the regulatory state could use more of, it's transparency. In today's ?Washington Times?, I shine a little light on the FCC:…
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Who Regulates the Regulators?
In Beltway terms, the Federal Communications Commission’s $350 million budget request for 2013 is practically a rounding error. Yet it costs the American people a…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
74 new regulations, from the Citrus Administrative Committee to pecan insurance.
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Hoover Didn’t Cut Spending
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CEI Podcast For February 28, 2013: Italy’s Troubling Election Results
The results of Italy’s general election were announced this week, setting markets on edge across the Eurozone. Warren Brookes Fellow Matt Melchiorre finds the outcome…
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Progressives Should Be Wary Of A Minimum Wage Increase
Over at the American Spectator, I argue that progressives should look elsewhere for ways to help the poor:…
The American Spectator
At Minimum, a Big Loser
President Obama brought the minimum wage debate back into the news in a big way in his State of the Union address, when he proposed…
One News Now
Costly FCC guilty of ‘regulation without representation,’ says group
A new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute finds the Federal Communications Commission to be the third costliest agency in government. The report, released on…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
53 new regulations, from the mental states of federal employees to giving rides to sick or injured people.
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Regulatory Report Card: Federal Communications Commission
Regulatory agencies need to be much more transparent. One way to do that is through an annual report card with important information about each agency…
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CEI Podcast For February 21, 2013: The Wages Of Sin Taxes
CEI and the Adam Smith Institute have teamed up to publish a U.S. edition of Christopher Snowdon's study "The Wages of Sin Taxes." He argues…
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Regulatory Report Card: FCC
Full Document Available in PDF It may come as a surprise that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the third most expensive…
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FCC Is Third Most Expensive Agency of Federal Government
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 21, 2013 – Somewhat surprisingly, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the third most expensive agency when it comes to the costs…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
90 new regulations, from hot air balloons to Sea World’s fireworks shows.
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CEI Podcast For February 14, 2013: Dodd-Frank’s Constitutionality
CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman discusses a lawsuit in which CEI and two co-plaintiffs argue that portions of Dodd-Frank are unconstitutional.
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
61 new regulations, from your doctor’s stock portfolio to growing wine in Indiana.
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The Case For Unilateral Free Trade In One Sentence
"Even if your trading partner dumps rocks into his harbor to obstruct arriving cargo ships, you do not make yourself better off by dumping rocks…
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No More Regulation Without Representation
Over at the American Spectator, Wayne Crews and I show just how bad the problem of regulation without representation is by using Wayne's handy Anti-Democracy…
The American Spectator
The Anti-Democracy Index
The United States Constitution gives “all legislative powers herein granted” to Congress. Neither the judicial nor the executive branch has the power to make laws,…
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CEI Podcast For February 7, 2013: Energy Secretary Chu Resigns
William Yeatman, Assistant Director of CEI's Center for Energy and Environment, looks at former Energy Secretary Steven Chu's record in office, who might succeed him,…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
70 new regulations, from airplane bathrooms to advertising seized property.
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CEI Podcast For January 31, 2013: The Recess Appointments That Weren’t
Federal judges recently struck down four recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, claiming the Senate was in pro forma session when President Obama…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
56 new regulations, from medical records to crop insurance.
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CEI Podcast For January 24, 2013: Gov. McDonnell’s Transportation Plan
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell recently released a headline-grabbing plan for the state's transportation funding that would abolish the state's gasoline tax and raise other taxes…
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REINS Act Introduced In The House
CEI has been pushing a common-sense regulatory reform idea for years: Congress should vote on all regulations with an annual cost of $100 million or…
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Great Stagnation?
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
54 new regulations, from microwave ovens to roof trusses.
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CEI Podcast For January 17, 2013: Fighting Class Action Abuse
Lawyers are clever creatures, but they rarely use their powers for good. CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman is an exception to the rule.
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
52 new regulations, from nematodes to tiltorotors.
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CEI Podcast For January 14, 2013: Meet Lawson Bader
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Getting Buchanan Wrong
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James Buchanan, 1919-2013
Economics has lost one of its greats. James Buchanan has passed away at age 93. Born on a Tennessee farm in 1919, he continued working…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
28 new regulations, from the United Soybean Board to synthetic drugs.
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CEI Podcast For January 3, 2013: The Fiscal Cliff Meets The Costberg
Congress made an unsatisfying compromise deal this week to avoid falling off the fiscal cliff. But Vice President for policy Wayne Crews thinks this is…
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New Year, New Laws
More than 400 new laws came into effect today.
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
54 new regulations, from handling spearmint oil to drug testing railroad workers.
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EPA Regulations Cost How Much?!
Over at the Daily Caller, I summarize my recent CEI Regulatory Report Card on the EPA. Recommended if you don't feel like reading the entire…
One News Now
CEI’s Report Card on the EPA
Ryan Young reports that the information is included in a report card [pdf] of sorts by his organization, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). "There is…
Daily Caller
EPA costs US economy $353 billion per year
Transparency is the lifeblood of democracy. Washington needs more of it, especially in the all-too-opaque world of regulation. The…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
68 new regulations, from summer flounder fishing to switching contractors.
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CEI Podcast For December 19, 2012: The EPA Regulatory Report Card
Fellow in Regulatory Studies Ryan Young talks about the need for more transparency in the world of regulation, as well as CEI's new EPA Regulatory…
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Path To Transparency: The EPA Regulatory Report Card
Transparency is in short supply in the world of regulation. How many rules does an agency have in the pipeline? How much will they cost?…
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Regulatory Report Card: Environmental Protection Agency
The quality of regulation depends heavily on its transparency. Taking to heart Justice Louis Brandeis’ stated belief that sunshine is the best disinfectant, the purpose…
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The Regulatory Reduction Commission
In today's Washington Times, Wayne Crews and I write about a reform that has nearly two decades of bipartisan support, has a proven track record…
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Federal rules cost $10,000 per employee
What do the Progressive Policy Institute, former Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, former presidential candidate Herman Cain and the Competitive Enterprise Institute have…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
69 new regulations, from Spanish translations of used car buyers guides to shortnose suckers.