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• By: Ryan Young
• 01/06/2014

66 new regulations, from school lunches to furnace fans.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/02/2014

With unemployment still painfully high more than five years after the financial crisis, Senior Fellow in Labor Policy Aloysius Hogan thinks that re-extending unemployment insurance…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/02/2014

Over at the Washington Times, I encourage the Fed to taper back the rest of the QE program, and point out that the Fed may…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/02/2014

Leading up to Janet Yellen’s Jan. 6 confirmation vote, the Federal Reserve recently announced that it will taper back its bond-buying program, known as quantitative…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/30/2013

74 new regulations, from non-toxic ammunition to shrimp electronic logbooks.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/23/2013

71 new regulations, from charitable donations to video programming for the blind.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/18/2013

The Food and Drug Administration recently banned 23andMe, a genetic testing service, from marketing its product to consumers. CEI Executive Director and Senior Fellow Gregory…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/16/2013

56 new regulations, from toddler beds to eagle permits.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/09/2013

95 new regulations, from mad cow disease to falconry federalism.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/02/2013

77 new regulations, from red porgies to homopolymers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/27/2013

Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini debunks scare stories about chemicals in your family's Thanksgiving dinner, from BPA in canned foods to naturally occurring pesticides in potatoes.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/25/2013

60 new regulations, from salamanders to beans from Jordan.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/18/2013

66 new regulations, from corporate mergers to dried bacteria.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/11/2013

78 new regulations, from toy guns to tires.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/07/2013

A new CEI study finds that the most expensive ingredient in beer isn’t grain, hops, or equipment: it’s taxes. Study co-author and Fellow in Consumer…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/04/2013

92 new regulations, from student loan paperwork to government employee travel allowances.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/31/2013

Iain Murray and I have a piece in today's American Spectator breaking down the new paper we co-wrote with John Berlau.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/30/2013

George Mason University law professor and Mercatus Center senior scholar Todd Zywicki discusses his paper, "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Savior or Menace?"…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/29/2013

Even if it is nominally independent, the Federal Reserve is arguably the government’s most important agency. It has control over the price system, the most…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Iain Murray, John Berlau, Ryan Young
• 10/28/2013

Full Document Available in PDF Janet Yellen is President Obama’s choice to succeed Ben Bernanke as the Federal Reserve Chair. Yellen is…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/28/2013

78 new regulations, from energy-efficient urinals to interstate turtle requirements.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/21/2013

Shutdown edition: 3 new regulations. Two Coast Guard safety zones and a catch limit for herring.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/17/2013

The next day or two will also be slow ones for the Federal Register. But then there will be a flood of new rules as…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/15/2013

Short answer: not much. Over at the Daily Caller, I go over some data from this shutdown, as well as the two Gingrich-Clinton showdowns.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/15/2013

Shutdown edition: 6 new regulations, from Basel III to bridge repair.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/14/2013

For the seventeenth time since current budgeting rules were adopted in 1976, the federal government is shut down. Seventeen years of relative peace have devolved…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/07/2013

113 new regulations, from drawbridge schedules to viticultural areas.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/02/2013

The Office of Management and Budget reviewed a grand total of 47 regulations last year, or a little more than 1 percent of the total.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 10/02/2013

When the news broke that the National Security Agency has been monitoring Americans’ communications, the Obama administration was reluctant to discuss if it…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/30/2013

80 new regulations, from bird hunting to fluted kidneyshells.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/23/2013

Senators Angus King (I-Me.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) are introducing a bill that would create just such a commission. Over at The American Spectator, Wayne…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/23/2013

76 new regulations, from pet stores to food containers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 09/23/2013

There are regulations for everything from restaurant menus to walk-in freezers’ energy efficiency. Almost no one denies that the nation’s economy is saddled with some…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/16/2013

61 new regulations, from banned avocados to sweet corn insurance.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/09/2013

58 new regulations, from foreign tax credits to growing dates in Riverside County, California.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/05/2013

Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton puts a scary new study about energy drinks and children into its proper, non-scary context.

Consumer Freedom