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The Latest Disease of Affluence
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As Lenin said about rope…
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Economists File Brief In Support of Terminally-Ill
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Asbestos Fireproofing Might Have Prevented World Trade Center Collapse
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, I suggested in this column on Sept. 14, 2001 that many…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The House of Representative prepares to pass new energy policy legislation, including…
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Forbidden Words
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New — WTO summaries of trade disputes
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“Daniel” makes it easy for identity thieves
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The House of Representative approves legislation requiring the government to negotiate lower…
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The High Cost of Low Price
Should free market advocates oppose a plan aimed at lowering prescription drug costs? Generally, no. But, when such a plan involves the flexing…
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You Try Living with Ed’s Wife
Ed Begley Jr. had an image problem. Hollywood is lousy with so-called activists, but he's a genuine back-to-the-land environmentalist and something of a…
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House Energy Bill: Lose-Lose for Consumers and Taxpayers
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., January…
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Another Hazardous Rulemaking
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Rep. Flake gets bumped from Judiciary — on principle?
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Farm bill — a focus on energy
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France – prime obstacle for liberalizing agriculture support
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS Democrats unveil new energy legislation. CEI Expert…
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Memo to Sen. Boxer: Be Careful What You Ask For
If I were Barbara Boxer, the last thing I want to hear on January 30th when Senators trundle down to offer their deep climate thoughts…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS New Democratic congressmen warn Speaker Pelosi to stick to a politically moderate…
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Eco-Intimidation Bypasses Scientific Debate
Junk science traditionally has been pretty much of an in-your-face phenomenon. Activist-generated scary headlines that are followed by a hysterical rush to adopt new…
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We oppose negotiations on Medicare Part D drug prices
We are deeply concerned about proposed legislation that would lead to negotiation of pharmaceutical prices by the federal government for the new Medicare Part…
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A Free Market Agenda for the 110th Congress
Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute releases its policy recommendations for the new leadership on Capitol Hill: This Liberal Congress Went to…
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This Liberal Congress Went to Market: a Bipartisan Policy Agenda for the 110th Congress
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The House of Representatives meets today to debate an increase in the…
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Meet Modern Britain: Where Blood, Sweat and Tears Is a 70s Rock Band
Global warming activists have suggested that Prime Minister Tony Blair give up his personal holiday travel around the world, to set an example as a…
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Scharzenegger to order 10% emissions cut; expected to boost ethanol
Gov. Schwarzenegger is expected today to order California's petroleum refiners and gasoline sellers to reduce the carbon content of the fuels they sell by 10%.
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A Temporary Reprieve for D.C. Employers and Landlords
D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams rightly vetoed a bill that would have banned employers from taking applicants’ criminal records into account in hiring, and forced landlords to rent to ex-cons,…
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Drug Industry Gone to the Dogs
My dog is fat. Obese, even, if the FDA is to be believed. The arrival of my new-born son two years ago has meant fewer…
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A Free Market Agenda for the 110th Congress
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute releases its policy recommendations for the new leadership…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS Democratic leaders in Congress plan to take on the nation’s drug companies…
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Will the Real Redisributionists Stand Up?
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Can a Deal be Done on Doha?
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Ethanol demand will drive grain prices to record levels, Lester Brown warns
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Efficiency – You Have to Know the Purpose First!
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Go Where the Voters Are!
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Holiday Horrors: Pollution is Everywhere!
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Egalitarian Confusion Abounds
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Will the Real Bob Seger Please Stand Up?
NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed classic rock radio staple Bob Seger today, highlighting his new album and his first tour in a decade. Seger,…
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The FCC’s challenge: Separating speech and state
WASHINGTON – With a stop-off in Nashville, Tenn., in December, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continues a series of hearings debating government’s role in determining…
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Why flying cars haven’t taken off— yet
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> A recent General Motors ad campaign is a real letdown.
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS NPR looks into what the new Democratic-controlled Congress plans to do about…
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“Never has good weather felt so bad.”
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Mr. Green Was Doing Just Fine
Imagine that you are a social worker. You open the local paper the day after Christmas to find one of those stories that editors…
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The Democrats’ Favorite Target
Politicians always talk about promoting the public interest, but in practice that usually means helping your friends and hurting your enemies. The Democrats taking…
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Lamy sees WTO “at heart of global governance”
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The Weather Channel Gets Emotional
Tired of tuning into The Weather Channel and getting nothing but temperature forecasts, rain totals and color-coded maps? Worry not cable junkies – TWC is…
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Ethanol ain’t no magic bullet
The New York Times has caught up with CEI in assessing the impact of increased production of ethanol and its effect on food production. NYT…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS Unions leaders mingle with celebrities and politicians as Democrats celebrate their return…
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Debunking Dobbs — Part II
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Bhagwati debunks Dobbsians
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FDA Animal Cloning Decision Comes Years Too Late
In an invited post on The Hill’s Congress Blog yesterday, I argued that the…
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Big Labor’s Agenda for the 110th Congress, Part I: The Minimum Wage
This month the first session of the 110th Congress begins with Democrats in control of both chambers for the first time since 1994. Control…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS Democratic leaders in Congress begin work on their first 100 hour agenda.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists has just released a 68-page report that claims that Exxon Mobil has funded a disinformation campaign on global warming…
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Neo-luddites embark on anti-consumption year
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Assessing the Agenda for Congress’ First 100 Hours
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Assessing…
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Europe’s Kyoto Baseline Game
The higher the 1990 EU baseline the lower their violation in 2008-2012 from increased GHG emissions; as such, over time <?xml:namespace prefix…
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Trading Hot Air?
Hot air is often associated with politicians, but the new 110th Congress will try elevating that unflattering characterization to the status of a tradable…
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The Grey Lady’s Resolution: “In” — global warming moderation; “Out” — alarmism
On January 1st the New York Times revealed an astounding New Year’s resolution: it starkly shifted course and implicitly promised to rein in its own…
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Be afraid of the dark: Misguided NIMBYs foster future of blackouts
The electric Reliability Organization (ERO), established with statutory authority after the widespread blackouts of 2003, has issued its first report. It makes for…
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Democrats: There Is Such a Thing as Too Much Regulation
As Democrats take power in Congress, speculation has swirled around the question of why Republicans lost. But there is a factor – a…
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Union of Concerned Scientists Issues False, Misleading Report
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY The Federal Communications Commission gives its unanimous final approval to the merger of AT&T…
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District Smoking Ban Threatens Economic Liberty
Contact: Christine Hall, (202) 331-2258 Washington, D.C., January 2, 2007 – The District of Columbia today became the newest city in…
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Energy Diet for a Starving World?
In his global warming scare-you-mentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth” (AIT), which was recently released on DVD, former Vice President Al Gore declares global…
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One Flu over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Flu fearmongers must be quite depressed these days. Seasonal flu is late. Bird flu—despite all the headlines—hasn't gained much traction among humans. And…
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The Lohachara Incident
Geoffrey Lean of The Independent on Sunday adds a new element to the catastrophist case: “Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the…
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Bear-baiting
CEI Adjunct Fellow Steve Milloy has more on the polar bear issue in his weekly must-read FoxNews column: “Let’s keep in mind that polar…
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Taste and Trans fats
Nobel laureate Gary Becker has some thoughts on the New York City trans-fats ban (reflecting on comments by his co-blogger, Judge Richard Posner): “Posner…
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Jamaican Malaria: Blame Rachel Carson, not global warming
Malaria cases in Jamaica have surpassed 160, the Associated Press reports. This is the first outbreak there in more than four decades. One…
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Bear-faced Opportunism
With the bald eagle poised to come off the endangered species list (huzzah!), another species of charismatic megafauna is needed to replace it as…
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EU Honesty
Some remarkable statements about the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions performance in an official EU document by Eija-Riitta Korhola, Vice-Chair of Kokoomus (Finnish National Coalition…
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Awards Season
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Horsepower to the People
The great boon that is automobility is set to spread to India, with the introduction of a family car that will cost only $2000. …
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Polar Bear Meltdown?
This week the Bush administration proposed to list the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. It’s a futile gesture that only…
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Ford Tough
Most obituarists portrayed President Gerald Ford as a humble man with few ambitions, a great conciliator, a political moderate, an all around nice…
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FDA Makes Right Decision on Cloned Milk and Meat
Contact: Christine Hall, 202-331-2258 Washington, D.C., December 28, 2006—The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauds the Food and Drug Administration for releasing its long-awaited Risk Assessment on…
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Stop Bushing the Envelope
President Bush has several strengths, but negotiating with Congress isn't one of them. He wants to come across as the Goldilocks president. As he said…
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Government Has No First Amendment Right to Discriminate
In November, Michigan voters adopted Proposal 2, a state constitutional amendment that bans racial preferences in state university admissions and in government contracts and employment.
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Scenario planning writ large in the UK
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Subsidies don’t work
A good story in the New York Times about how subsidies to domestic oil and gas producers are a waste of taxpayer dollars: Analysts…
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Farming is big business – with big government handouts
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Farewell to Frank
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH British medical journal The Lancet estimates that as many as 62 million people could die…
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TSA — Unsafe at Any Altitude
If you’re flying this holiday season, once you’re on board the plane — after getting through with the stripping of belt and shoes, the unfolding…
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Making Job Losses Bad Politics
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Lost in translation? Mais non!
Today the French newspaper L’Express attacked CEI and other skeptics of catastrophic global warming as “les négationnistes” or “deniers” — following the low ground…
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Carbon Trading Enriches the Few (for no global benefit)
Wonder where all the money the developed world is investing in the developing world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is going? To the privileged…
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Yet more Stern criticism
David Maddison of the University of Birmingham in the UK adds his voice (PDF link) to the criticisms of the Stern Review, concluding: There…
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The tension between science and alarmism
Early last month, at about the time of the publication of the Stern Review with its inclusion of “catastrophe” in its analysis of the risks…
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One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Flu fearmongers must be quite depressed these days. Seasonal flu is late. Bird flu – despite all the headlines – hasn’t gained much traction…
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Issues in the News FINANCIAL REGULATION A U.S. District Court hears arguments in the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Free Enterprise Fund’s…
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Who gets the farm pork?
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Green for the Holidays?
The New York Times reports today that Boston has announced a plan to comply with “green building” codes for city projects. And, no, we are…
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A woman for all seasons — Marquise du Chatelet
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Psst. Things are good. Pass it on.
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What do economists really think about global warming
Robert Whaples of Wake Forest University has the answer. He polled American economists and found: The results show that most economists are not alarmed…
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A Bold Prediction
Myron wrote earlier about how the Senate Democrats are showing no urgency to tackle global warming, otherwise known as The Greatest Threat Facing the…