News Release
CEI Releases New I, Pencil Film
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I, Pencil: The Movie
Forbes
Chronicling The Decline And Fall Of Entitlement Democracy
It’s been a week of sober reflection, accompanied by a self-imposed news fast, during which I’ve struggled to understand the deeper meaning of our recent…
Letters
Coalition Letter on Unintended Consequences of Basel III
Full Document Available in PDF The undersigned organizations, institutions and nonprofits interested in fostering entrepreneurship represent hundreds of thousands businesses, small and…
Study
The Regional Haze Settlement Agreement Is a Terrible Deal for New Mexico
Full Document Available in PDF After months of negotiation, the New Mexico Environment Department in early October proposed a settlement to end…
Forbes
Why You Should Care That Courts Overturn EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standard
The 2012 elections ensure that President Obama’s “war on coal” will continue for at least two more years. The administration’s preferred M.O. has been for…
Hoover Institution
Free Speech for Big Pharma
One of the most important elements of medicine is also among the least well known: the ability of physicians to prescribe approved medicines for purposes…
Blog
Businesses Against Deregulation
The trucking industry went to extraordinary lengths to fight deregulation in the 1970s.
Legal Brief
CEI vs. Dept. of Treasury – Complaint Re: FOIA Requests
Full Document Available in PDF This lawsuit seeks to compel Treasury to respond fully and completely to two FOIA requests dated August…
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Today’s Links: November 13, 2012
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Jeffrey Sachs: Macro-Keynsianism Is “Outdated And Outmoded”… So, We Need Micro-Keynsianism!
Jeffrey Sachs, the harbinger of bad policy, has written his first post-election column in the Financial Times, “Obama has four years to transform America’s…
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CEI Podcast For November 13, 2012: The Fiscal Cliff At Home And Abroad
Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow Matthew Melchiorre explains what both sides of the Atlantic need to do to avoid fiscal catastrophe.
Hoover Institution
Tech Policy in 2013 Roundtable
The event is the first in a series of three roundtables exploring “Tech Policy in 2013,” co-hosted by TechFreedom and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The…
Hoover Institution
America must avoid Europe’s toxic tax remedy
With America threatening to run off the “fiscal cliff” of tax increases and spending cuts on Jan. 1, it risks repeating the mistakes of Europe.
News Release
CEI Sues To Force Release of Carbon Tax Emails
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 13, 2012 – On Tuesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed suit to force the Treasury Department to release more than 7,300…
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Italy Shoots The Messenger… And Its Legal System In The Foot
Italy’s legal system, already deeply unfriendly to business, has sunk to a new low this week. In the town of Trani, prosecutors requested to charge five…
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Alcohol Regulation Roundup: Election Hangover Edition
How did the election affect alcohol laws? Alcohol is regulated by states, cities, counties and towns, and hundreds of them had alcohol-related measures on the ballot Nov.
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Immigration Reform Resurrected!
Nothing makes politicians see the light like losing. Even while immigration restrictionists reassure themselves that the GOP’s immigration message is fine despite losing as…
Newsletter
CEI Today: Obama’s lame duck regulations, Big Labor’s victory, Congress & budget cuts, and tech regulation in 2013
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Austerity For Europeans, But Not For Europe
Some economists and political leaders demonize European austerity as “savage.” They say it will only deepen and prolong recession. They are right, but for the…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
61 new regulations, from organic food residue to amateur rocketry liberalization.
Washington Examiner
Think tank to sue Treasury to make carbon tax proposal emails public
The Competitive Enterprise Institute will file the suit in federal district court tomorrow because Treasury Department officials denied the non-profit organization's request for a waiver…
Denver Post
Is Colorado’s “new energy economy” still viable in light of recent setbacks in the industry? No
It's been a rough stretch for Colorado's "new energy economy." Over the last few months, the Centennial State's green energy industry, which the new energy…
Denver Post
Competitve bidding solves Rome’s water problems
ROME’S AGING, corroded underground water pipes are crumbling beneath the feet of the city’s residents. Water main breaks are an inconvenience for businesses and commuters…
Denver Post
Business Survival in a Second Obama Term
Obama is the president who delayed the Keystone XL pipeline and its bounty of jobs, pushed “cap and trade” as part of an overall war…
San Francisco Gate
State a Pioneer of Cap and Trade
San Francisco Gate
Competitive bidding solves water problems one drip at a time
Augusta’s water lines are literally crumbling beneath citizens’ feet. Water line breaks are an inconvenience for businesses and commuters alike. Last year, a major eight-foot…
Trib Live
Chrysler, Fiat deal backfires
John Berlau is the senior fellow for finance and access to capital in the Center for Economic Freedom at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington,…
Trib Live
Competitive bidding solves water problems one drip at a time
Augusta’s water lines are literally crumbling beneath citizens’ feet. Water line breaks are an inconvenience for businesses and commuters alike. Last year, a major eight-foot…
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Big Labor Victory Exaggerated, Fight Continues
After the 2012 election, labor unions celebrated what was seen as an overall victorious election season for their organizations. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka bragged…
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FEMA’s Wasteful “Disaster Socialism”
In the Washington Examiner, Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation notes that FEMA has been as slow after Superstorm Sandy as it was after…
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D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh Still Doesn’t Understand Driverless Cars
Last Sunday, The Washington Post published my op-ed criticizing the approach taken by Councilmember Mary Cheh's introduced legislation to legalize driverless cars in Washington,…
Investor's Business Daily
Obama To Unleash Racial-Preferences Juggernaut
Last month, moreover, the Education Department pressured the Oakland school district to impose "targeted reductions" in the number of black students suspended. The department charged…
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CEI Podcast For November 8, 2012: Election Wrap-Up
Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner explains why the election turned out the way it did, and what the results mean going forward for…
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The Election Is Over: What Now For Regulation?
A midnight rush is on the way, though it will likely be smaller than if Romney had won the election.
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Alaska Gold Rush For The Laborers’ Union
The Alaska Policy Forum recently exposed that the state’s legislature in 2011 and 2012 appropriated millions of tax dollars to finance the facilities of a…
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Alaska Gold Rush For Laborers’ Union
Openmarket.org The Alaska Policy Forum recently exposed that the state’s legislature in 2011 and 2012 appropriated millions of tax dollars to finance a Laborer’s…
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Conservative Self-Deception In 2012 Hid Need For Policy Changes
Washington Times
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Liberal War on Transparency’
An intriguing and painstakingly in-depth glimpse into the hypocrisy of the Obama administration, “The Liberal War on Transparency: Confessions of a Freedom of Information ‘Criminal,’”…
Cato
OCCUPY PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE: HOW THE GOVERNMENT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS HURT THE 99%
The constitutional problems with Sarbox primarily lie with the enforcement body that enforces the new regulatory regime–the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)–and the broad…
News Release
Open Letter to President Obama
Forbes
American Voters Choose Obama To Lead Us – Down The Road To Ruin
Despite a good look at the bankruptcy of entitlement democracy playing out across the euro zone, Americans have gone to the polls demanding to join…
Blog
Alcohol Regulation Roundup: Election Day Edition
While Mitt may not drink, many of the voting public and the candidates themselves hope to celebrate/drown their sorrows at the bar while the returns…
Study
Did You Vote Today? How Long Did It Take You?
Free Beacon
Waging War on Coal
The EPA imposed haze plans on North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Nebraska in 2011 and 2012 that will increase energy compliance costs by almost…
Bill O'Reilly
Hour by Hour: What to Watch on Election Night
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Government Pressure to Remove Billboards Against Voter Fraud Is Not “Market Forces”
Earlier, I wrote about illogical but widespread claims (found on Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and elsewhere) that billboards noting "Voter Fraud Is a Felony"…
Newsletter
CEI Today: Driverless cars, Hurricane Sandy and global warming, and Obama’s bungled auto bailouts
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Alabama Unions Vs. Privacy: Organized Labor’s War On The Secret Ballot
Openmarket.org Tomorrow, Alabamans will have the opportunity to enshrine the secret ballot into their state constitution. A proposal before voters called Amendment 7 would “provide that…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
60 new regulations, from dishwashers to falconry.