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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,"…
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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…
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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The Boston Globe cites Wayne Crews's comments on President Obama's executive order to stop "outdated" federal regulations.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…
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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,…
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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…
The WHIR
What the New Congress Can Do For the Technology Sector
This week the Consumer Electronics Show will eat Las Vegas whole, and it’s an awesome thing to behold. Here’s hoping that the affiliated…
Local Techwire
FCC prepares to adopt ‘net neutrality’ rules
Before It's News
FCC Threatens to Impose Destructive Rules on Internet
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One Nation, Ungovernable?
Full Document Available in PDF As both political parties wrangle over economic stimulus packages and…
Before It's News
Keep Privacy Policies Private
Like the lame duck itself, the online privacy turkey waddles on this December. It’s headed for January and the next Congress. Along with proposed legislation,…
Hawaii Reporter
Make America Stronger, Smarter and Save Trillions
The Hawaii Reporter discusses the costs of regulation with Wayne Crews. The magnitude of the costs of regulations for example, is staggering. Clyde…
Local Tech Wire
Opinion: ‘Net neutrality’ will hurt consumers, limit investment
IT Pro Portal
EU Google antitrust probe will hurt consumers
IT Pro Portal reports on the Google antitrust lawsuit and references comments by Wayne Crews and Ryan Radia on the case. However, competition…
American Specator
Not Triangulation but Regulation
American Spectator discuss regulations with CEI's Vincent Vernuccio, Myron Ebell, and Wayne Crews. Democrats failed miserably in legislative attempts to eliminate the secret…
Washington Post
Feds pledge some action on privacy, less on net neutrality
The Washington Post cite CEI's Wayne Crews and Ryan Radia's comments on net neutrality. Other observers like the FCC's new deal even less.
Huffington Post
Yes, Mr. FCC Chairman, There Is a Santa Claus
The Huffington Post cites Wayne Crews's comments on the FCC's net neutrality rule. The would-be chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are…
National Center for Policy Analysis
Instant Reform: Measure the Hidden Tax of Regulation
The National Center for Policy Analysis discusses Wayne Crews's research on what Congress should do about the growing size of the regulatory state.
National Center for Policy Analysis
Instant Reform: Measure The Hidden Tax Of Regulation
If Congress doesn’t grapple with the regulatory state, this economy can’t regain footing. You don’t have to tell the grass to grow; you simply have…
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Video Games are More than Just Good for Kids
They will be a primary way that we learn, teach, produce and advance in the future. Jane McGonigal of Institute for the Future has…
Las Vegas Review Journal
Reining in the regulatory state
The Las Vegas Review-Journal discusses Wayne Crews's research on the size of the federal regulatory state. Congress passed and the president signed into law…
Las Vegas Review Journal
It’s Time To Regulate The State
Think about what’s about to happen, if we don’t stop it. Crushing regulations loom thanks to unpopular health care and financial reform legislation. An ambitious…
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Should Geoengineering be Banned?
Since one day the sun will expand into a red-giant star, humans in the distant multi-millennial future will either have to leave the Earth, geoengineer…
National Center for Policy Analysis
Tyranny of the Unelected
The National Center for Policy Analysis discusses Wayne Crews's article called "Tyranny of the Unelected." Congress passed and the president signed 125 bills…
Broadband For America
Wayne Crews: Unnecessary FCC Regulation Would Deter Broadband Innovation
Broadband for America reports on Wayne Crews's opinion editorial on net neutrality. Competitive Enterprise Institute Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews has published…
Broadband For America
Antitrust: America’s Unfortunate Export
Scholars, journalists, bureaucrats and lawmakers persist in viewing the body of antitrust law as serving the public interest. They still believe in monopolies apart…
Broadband For America
Tyranny of the Unelected
Congress passed and the president signed 125 bills into law in 2009. Your tireless federal regulatory agencies were even busier: They issued 3,503 rules and…
Forbes
The Expanding State
Forbes highlights a statement from Wayne Crews on the expanding state. [President] Obama’s economic program fundamentally consists of fostering a compulsory “Declaration of…
Forbes
An Industry, not a Bureaucracy
Online security problems are real, but the increasing tendency to treat cybersecurity as a government-spearheaded function asks for big trouble. Case in point is the…
Forbes
Wayne Crews on the Regulatory State
Vice President for Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute discusses the regulatory state. He advocates removing regulations that cost the taxpayers too much money.
Information Week
Google Becomes Focus Of Federal Antitrust Hearing
Information Week reports on Wayne Crews's statements at a Congressional hearing on competition in the changing digital marketplace. Another speaker, Wayne Crews, vice…