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Top 5 Things Congress Should Consider During Lame-Duck Session
View the document here During Congress’ lame-duck session, both Republicans and Democrats will dig into a number of stalled pieces of legislation…
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Crowdfunding Is Entrepreneurship’s History and its Future
In America and around the world, aspiring entrepreneurs are meeting their colleagues and their mentors in official and unofficial sessions of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Created…
Study
Declaration of Crowdfunding Independence
Crowdfunding regulation threatens entrepreneurs and their ability to start businesses, create jobs and bring innovative products to the market.
News Release
CEI Report on Crowdfunding Urges Congress, Regulators to End ‘Millionaires Only’ Rules for Investment
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 – Today, during Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute released a new report on how regulation threatens entrepreneurs and their abilities…
News Release
The Keystone No-Brainer
As the Senate readies to vote on the Keystone pipeline, CEI's Marlo Lewis makes a number of key points why opposition to the already…
Forbes
Confessions Of A Capitalist
The recent remake of The Manchurian Candidate is a curious thing. While it repeats most of the plot of the 1962 original, the North Korean…
Forbes
Stockton Highlights Nationwide Risk Of Conflict Between Muni Investors And Public Sector Unions
Fixed-income investors are now on notice that their rights could be trumped by public-sector union bosses, following a court ruling granting Franklin Templeton Investments…
The Blaze
Dodd-Frank Court Case Could Provide Injunctive Relief for America
The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 has been a disaster for our financial system. Passed in haste after the financial crisis ostensibly in order to stop…
Roll Call
The Grinch Who Taxed The Internet
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Biased Anti-Bias Regulations
Anti-bias regulations are sometimes biased and at odds with civil liberties. The Cato Institute’s Walter Olson gives a recent example from a left-leaning region in Spain:…
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How the “Stupid” American Public Pays for Gruber’s Deception
The Washington Times points out that Jonathan Gruber, our nation’s most famous sufferer of foot-in-mouth-disease, has profited greatly from the “stupid” American public to whom he…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
The Federal Register took Tuesday off to observe Veterans’ Day. The short week was still a busy one, with Thursday’s edition alone totaling 783 pages. On to…
One News Now
Two Views on Danger of ‘Net Neutrality’
One News Now talks to Ryan Radia about free-market reasons to oppose Net Neutrality: If this is a free speech issue, says the Competitive…
Human Events
If it Walks Like a Lame Duck
I’ve always found the term “lame duck Congress” an affront to waterfowl everywhere. And it’s odd to boot. Why does it matter if they have…
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Gruber’s “Speakola” Virus and Pelosi’s Selective Memory
Obamacare supporters say that when deciding King v. Burwell and the related Halbig v. Burwell, challenges to the law that the Competitive Enterprise Institute helped fund and coordinate,…
The Washington Examiner
Federal Judge Tells CFPB it Must Give Depositions Even if Doing So ‘Annoys’
The Washington Examiner asks CEI's John Berlau about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's reluctance to participate in depositions: "John Berlau, a senior fellow at the…
Breitbart
President Obama Goes Around Senate on Climate Change
Breitbart cited Christopher Horner's statement on President Obama's promise with China to cut emissions. Obama knows that two-thirds of the Senate under the U.S.
Washington Examiner
Federal judge tells CFPB it must give depositions even if doing so ‘annoys’
The Washington Examiner quotes CEI`s John Berlau on the CFPB`s claim of excempt from depositions: John Berlau, a senior fellow at the Competitive…
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CFPBs Prepaid Debit Card Rules Will Harm Low-Income Consumers
Today’s action by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to issue unprecedented burdens on providers of prepaid debit cards shows why the bureau needs to be held…
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USPS Data Breach Highlights Union Hypocrisy
Recently, a United States Postal Service computer system experienced a security breach. The result: around 800,000 current and former USPS employees' private information, including their…
Human Events
Obama’s Economic Surrender to China
Human Events quotes CEI's Cristopher Horner on President Obama's environmental treaty with China at APEC: "Of course, since we’ve long trespassed against the boundaries…
News Release
Prepaid Credit Cards Subject to New Regulation – Statement by CEI’s John Berlau
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reportedly poised to impose new regulations on the prepaid card industry. John Berlau, senior fellow with the Competitive…
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Obama’s Meaningless China Deal on Climate Change
It will be up to future Presidents and Congresses after he leaves office in January 2017 to decide whether to require the emissions reductions.
Study
From Overstock to Overtaxed
With Congress poised to consider similar taxes in the Marketplace Fairness Act…
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Minneapolis Adopts Unconstitutional Racial Quotas in School Discipline
Given a choice between following the law, and doing what a bureaucrat with power over them wants, many people will do what the bureaucrat wants,…
News Release
New Report: The Economic and Legal Problems with Internet Sales Taxes
WASHINGTON – Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a new study analyzing the economic downsides and legal problems with…
News Release
Obama’s China Deal on Climate Change
President Obama in Beijing declared new targets for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, this time with China ostensibly agreeing to cut its own greenhouse gas…
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Miami-Dade Contracts Keep Paying Government Employees to Perform Union Business
In the summer of 2013, Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser, and current Lieutenant Governor of Florida, Carlos Lopez-Cantera tried to fire an employee who wasn't showing…
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Obamacare: Cert Granted on Friday, and Gruber III on Saturday
It was very good news, delivered in a very surprising way. Shortly after noon last Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would review our…
Reason
Schools Implement Explicit Racial Bias in Suspensions
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The Long National Nightmare of Dodd-Frank Is Almost Over
One of the prime reasons for the continuing economic uncertainty that bedevils so many ordinary Americans is the presence in law of the Dodd-Frank Act…
Legal Brief
FOIA Request for Agency Records: EPA Officials’ Text Messages
Read the FOIA Request here Read the Response Letter here CEI filed the following Freedom of Information Act request…
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Right to Work Should Be on the Agenda in Ohio and Wisconsin
One takeaway from the midterm elections is politicians who support labor reform, which protects worker choice and reduce union coercive power, should not fear political…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
Election week was a busy one on the regulatory front, with new rules on everything from fuel taxes to wireless spectrum. With the Senate changing…
News Release
Obama’s Net Neutrality Plan is Bad for Consumers
CNS News
IPCC’s Latest Report: The End Is Nigh Unless Mankind Repents of Its Fuelish Ways
This article was originally published on CNS News on November 10, 2014. The end of the world is always big news, no matter how…
Human Events
In Memory of Gordon Tullock
The Wall Street Journal
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Health-Care Law Subsidies
The Wall Street Journal quotes Sam Kazman in their discussion of the Supreme Court's review of CEI's Obamacare Exchange case: The Supreme Court…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Public Sector Unions
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Steve Malanga has commented on the growing differences between private and public sector unions. Malanga describes the various instances…
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 25 Years Later
This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. While much is going to be written about this quarter-century anniversary, my colleague…
Products
Supreme Court Will Review King v. Burwell – CERTIORARI GRANTED
Reuters
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Obamacare Subsidies Case
Reuters News Service quotes Sam Kazman in this November 7 report on the SCOTUS decision to take up CEI's Obamacare challenge: The plaintiffs in…
Fox Business
SCOTUS to Hear ObamaCare Subsidies Case
Fox Business quotes Sam Kazman on the November 7th Supreme Court cert for CEI's Obamacare challenge. “Today’s grant of cert by the Supreme Court is…
Roll Call
Friday Q & A: Marc Scribner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute
Part 1, Part 2 Analyst Marc Scribner at the Competitive Enterprise Institute examines transportation policy from a staunchly pro-market standpoint. Here are excerpts…
News Release
SCOTUS Announces Review of CEI’s Healthcare Case: King v. Burwell
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 – Today, the Supreme Court announced it will review the Fourth Circuit’s ruling on the Obamacare insurance exchange subsidies case.
Letters
Coalition Letter: Wind PTC Opposition with the American Energy Alliance
The American Energy Alliance, Competitive Enterprise Institute, and more than 60 other groups urged Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch…
National Review
Obama’s Peanut-Brained Attack on MetLife
This article was originally published at the National Review on November 6, 2014. One day while sitting on the roof of his doghouse, Snoopy supposedly…
American Spectator
No Triple Mandate for the Federal Reserve
A recent speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen got considerable attention over her subtly implied suggestion that the Fed consider taking on a…
Vox
The GOP’s Senate Takeover Could Be a Big Deal for Net Neutrality and Patent Reform
CEI's Ryan Radia discusses net neutrality, patent reform and online privacy with Vox Media: Net Neutrality: "Still, Ryan Radia of the Competitive…
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Labor and Employment Look at the 2014 Elections
The election tide of November 4, 2104, begs to be examined from a labor and employment perspective.