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• By: Ryan Young
• 02/25/2013

53 new regulations, from the mental states of federal employees to giving rides to sick or injured people.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

Regulatory agencies need to be much more transparent. One way to do that is through an annual report card with important information about each agency…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

CEI and the Adam Smith Institute have teamed up to publish a U.S. edition of Christopher Snowdon's study "The Wages of Sin Taxes." He argues…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

Full Document Available in PDF It may come as a surprise that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the third most expensive…

Regulatory Reform

• Christine Hall, Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 21, 2013 – Somewhat surprisingly, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the third most expensive agency when it comes to the costs…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/18/2013

90 new regulations, from hot air balloons to Sea World’s fireworks shows.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/14/2013

CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman discusses a lawsuit in which CEI and two co-plaintiffs argue that portions of Dodd-Frank are unconstitutional.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/11/2013

61 new regulations, from your doctor’s stock portfolio to growing wine in Indiana.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/08/2013

"Even if your trading partner dumps rocks into his harbor to obstruct arriving cargo ships, you do not make yourself better off by dumping rocks…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/08/2013

Over at the American Spectator, Wayne Crews and I show just how bad the problem of regulation without representation is by using Wayne's handy Anti-Democracy…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 02/08/2013

The United States Constitution gives “all legislative powers herein granted” to Congress. Neither the judicial nor the executive branch has the power to make laws,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/04/2013

70 new regulations, from airplane bathrooms to advertising seized property.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/31/2013

Federal judges recently struck down four recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, claiming the Senate was in pro forma session when President Obama…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/28/2013

56 new regulations, from medical records to crop insurance.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/24/2013

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell recently released a headline-grabbing plan for the state's transportation funding that would abolish the state's gasoline tax and raise other taxes…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/24/2013

CEI has been pushing a common-sense regulatory reform idea for years: Congress should vote on all regulations with an annual cost of $100 million or…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/21/2013

54 new regulations, from microwave ovens to roof trusses.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/14/2013

52 new regulations, from nematodes to tiltorotors.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/07/2013

28 new regulations, from the United Soybean Board to synthetic drugs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/03/2013

Congress made an unsatisfying compromise deal this week to avoid falling off the fiscal cliff. But Vice President for policy Wayne Crews thinks this is…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/02/2013

More than 400 new laws came into effect today.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/31/2012

54 new regulations, from handling spearmint oil to drug testing railroad workers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/27/2012

Transparency is the lifeblood of democracy. Washington needs more of it, especially in the all-too-opaque world of regulation. The…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/24/2012

68 new regulations, from summer flounder fishing to switching contractors.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/19/2012

The quality of regulation depends heavily on its transparency. Taking to heart Justice Louis Brandeis’ stated belief that sunshine is the best disinfectant, the purpose…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/19/2012

In today's Washington Times, Wayne Crews and I write about a reform that has nearly two decades of bipartisan support, has a proven track record…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 12/18/2012

What do the Progressive Policy Institute, former Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, former presidential candidate Herman Cain and the Competitive Enterprise Institute have…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/17/2012

69 new regulations, from Spanish translations of used car buyers guides to shortnose suckers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/14/2012

Montreal mulls requiring dogs to be bilingual, USDA regulates polydactyl cats, plus more.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/12/2012

Fellow in Consumer policy Studies Michelle Minton argues that the beer industry in America is essentially a monopoly. In her new paper "Avoid a Monopoly…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/12/2012

Ryan Young, fellow in regulatory studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), reports that as of December 3, 2012, 3,392 final rules have been published…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/10/2012

94 new regulations, from apricots to civilian flights in Iraq.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/06/2012

Senior Fellow Matt Patterson discusses why public sector workers make substantially more money than their private sector counterparts.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/03/2012

88 new regulations, from phone bill formatting to food labels.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/27/2012

Senior Fellow Angela Angela Logomasini talks about her forthcoming CEI study, "Rachel Was Wrong: Agrochemicals’ Benefits to Human Health and the Environment."…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/26/2012

32 new regulations, from dehumidifiers to solid waste.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/21/2012

Senior Fellow Matt Patterson breaks down the controversy surrounding confection maker Hostess' perilous position.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/19/2012

48 new regulations, from medical paperwork to longshoremen’s headwear.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/15/2012

Alfred Kahn's lesson for regulators: "Do you want to be precisely wrong or approximately right?"…

Regulatory Reform