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• By: Ryan Young
• 02/17/2014

56 new regulations, from lamp fixtures to handling potatoes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/12/2014

CEI Fellow Marc Scribner opposes a bill that would ban in-flight cell phone usage on airplanes. He believes that decision should be left to airlines,…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/10/2014

55 new regulations, from kiwifruit administration to dehumidifiers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/03/2014

Over at The Hill's Congress blog, Wayne Crews and I make the case for reining in the regulatory state as a way to improve the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/03/2014

52 new regulations, from hedge funds to California dates.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/28/2014

One of progressivism’s most admirable traits is its concern for the little guy. But many progressive policies for alleviating poverty, unemployment, and other social problems…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/27/2014

43 new regulations, from flood elevations to extra parentheses.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/20/2014

57 new regulations, from shoeing horses to Florida avocados.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/16/2014

Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia argues that while the case looks like a victory on the surface, it still gives the FCC plenty…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/13/2014

38 new regulations, from job descriptions to Cape Sable thoroughworts.

Regulatory Reform

• 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