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• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/20/2006

Ralph Harris, guiding light of the UK’s Institute for Economic Affairs, has passed away. The Times has an extensive obituary: For three decades…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/20/2006

The magazines Black Enterprise, African American Golfer’s Digest and Divas On-The-Go are hosting the African-American Empowerment Weekend here in Washington this week. We’ve talked…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/19/2006

The Powell’s Books website has an interesting review (via The New Republic) of George Lakoff’s latest book about politics and language, Whose Freedom? Lakoff…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/18/2006

This afternoon Marian Tupy of Cato hosted a fascinating discussion on foreign aid and what is has and has not done for developing nations…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/18/2006

The deadlocked fight between Guatemala and Venezuela over the United Nations Security Council’s rotating Latin America seat is being reported as the latest setback…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/17/2006

A couple of months back, US Congressman Patrick Kennedy drove his car into a security barricade near the Capitol building early one Thursday…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/16/2006

Thanks to Fred for passing along (by way of Don Boudreaux) the link to the EconTalk podcast for this week. Host Russ Roberts…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/12/2006

There’s a saying that the most revealing part of Academy Awards speeches is who isn’t thanked. There is often a similar truism about…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/12/2006

Cato’s David Boaz and AFF’s David Kirby have a fascinating new study out on trends among the voting public,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/11/2006

One of capitalism’s greatest virtues is the wide array of preferences it allows entrepreneurs to cater to—including the preferences of those who claim to disdain…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/11/2006

John Berlau, head of CEI’s Center for Entrepreneurship, hails the contributions of Nobel Prize in Economics recipient Edmund Phelps in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/11/2006

Tim Carney, former Warren Brookes fellow at CEI, takes a look at Mark Foley’s political contributions and finds he has been a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/06/2006

Reuters is finally catching up with CEI’s own Tim Carney. In a story today, Tim McLaughlin reports that political contributions by the biggest Wall…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/06/2006

In what has to be one of this week’s worst excuses for good news, the Congressional Budget Office announced that the federal budget…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/05/2006

But would Progressives against Progress endorse this great invention?…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/03/2006

Yesterday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued an executive order commanding businesses seeking federally-funded disaster relief administered by the City of New…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/29/2006

A Financial Times article today points out how difficult U.S. reform of its agricultural programs will be with the collapse of the WTO’s Doha…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/28/2006

All that stuff written about early admission college programs being discriminatory, here’s a new wrinkle on possible “early admission” to sports…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/27/2006

The Deutsche Oper in Berlin on Monday cancelled a production of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” because of fears of inciting Muslim protesters to violence. There was…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/27/2006

I don’t know how on in the world I end up on some loony email lists, but they’re at least good for the occasional chuckle.

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/27/2006

As often happens to successful ventures, Starbucks now faces critics who challenge the company’s leasing contracts, which specify competitors may not occupy the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/26/2006

Wouldn’t you think that a reader’s letter correcting factual errors in a newspaper article wouldn’t be edited to delete the principal correction? Well,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 09/25/2006

Government is often said to be bedeviled by “unintended consequences.” That doesn’t mean that the consequences cannot be foreseen. Two great examples…

• By: John Berlau
• 09/25/2006

An op-ed I wrote for last Sunday’s Washington Times talked about the battle over the interchange fees that banks and credit card companies charge to retailers. The…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/22/2006

You really have to give it to the U.S. Census Bureau. Even when they prove they’re pathologically unable to keep track of important computer…

• By: Dennis Avery
• 09/21/2006

Full Document Available in PDF The high…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2006

The National Indian Gaming Commission has recently been getting hot under the collar over a vital matter of native gambling policy –…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/19/2006

Following up on Fred’s post, here’s an even better headline: “Thai PM cancels U.N. speech after coup” ran the headline in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/19/2006

Today the Senate approved for the second time the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement, another in the now lengthy list of…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/19/2006

Hmm — the headline of today “Thailand has peaceful coup while PM at UN” suggests that we provide free airfare to the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2006

The Canadian government has finally passed a resolution to end the long-festering softwood lumber dispute with the U.S. While it’s not a perfect deal,…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/18/2006

The pope is under attack for pointing out that there is an a-religious element in traditional Islam. The pope was condemned and Islamic radicals responded…