Newsletter
Wall Street Protesters, Protectionism, and Deregulation
Detroit News
House to Hold Hearing on 54.5 mpg Plan
Detroit News
Needed: Skilled Immigrants
Oct. 1 marked the beginning of the new term for recently issued H-1B visas for highly skilled workers. H-1B visas are three-year, once-renewable, employer-sponsored…
Blog
CEI Podcast for October 6, 2011: How to Deregulate the Economy
Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews is author of the new CEI study, “The Other National Debt Crisis: How and Why Congress Must Quantify Regulation."…
Blog
Today’s Links: October 6, 2011
Study
Stifling Medical Device Innovation
The United States has long been the home to cutting-edge innovations in the medical device industry. However, increasingly burdensome regulatory policy is driving pioneering research…
Blog
The EDA Elimination Act: To Terminate the Economic Development Administration
Yesterday Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo introduced the “EDA Elimination Act,” a bill that would remove funding for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development…
Detroit News
How To Create Shortages In An Abundant World
An old cold war joke asks a Russian, a Pole, an Israeli, and an American the following man-on-the-street question. “Excuse me, what is your opinion…
Detroit News
Most Green Energy Projects Are Thinly Veiled Exercises In Crony Capitalism
In late September on this site, Christopher Helman favorably profiled Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser‘s “green” energy agenda. Yes, solar-panel-maker Solyndra recently went belly…
Cronkite News
Judge removes hurdle to challenge of $3.4 billion Indian lands settlement
Cronkite News reports on a case in which Kimberly Craven, represented by Ted Frank, objects to the process in which a settlement will be distributed…
Blog
Today’s Links: October 5, 2011
Newsletter
Capital Gains Taxes and Air Travel
Blog
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Make Demands
Blog
Barone is Right: Appeasing Protectionists Is a Bad Idea
President Obama is finally sending three pending trade agreements — with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama — to Congress for a vote. The three trade…
Blog
Jerrold Nadler’s Fiscal Fantasies: Herbert Hoover Increased Spending, He Did Not “Slash the Budget” During the Great Depression
Attacking the idea of a Balanced Budget Amendment, "Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution," issued…
Blog
Poll: 14 Percent Approval Rating for Congress
Lawmakers need to do something about their do-something bias and try a deregulatory stimulus. Besides stimulating the economy, it would likely stimulate approval ratings, too.
Blog
Chinese Currency Bill Will Do Little to Improve Economy
Reuters and the Los Angeles Times report that a United States bill aimed at China’s currency policy is making its rounds around Congress.
Cronkite News
Why Your Bank Is Charging More Fees
There are many observations that can be made about President Obama’s remark Monday to ABC News that businesses “don’t have some inherent right just…
Cronkite News
Child Welfare/Protection Roundup
Cronkite News
Hoover Spent Big
Wherever did some Canadian economists get the strange idea that U.S. president Herbert Hoover “helped plunge his country into the Great Depression through austerity measures”…
Blog
Today’s Links: October 4, 2011
Blog
Capital Gains Taxes are Too High, and are a Tax on Savings that Punishes Thrifty People for Inflation
Blog
The Physics Nobel and Human Achievement
Blog
Brazil v. Dell
The class attorneys in Brazil v. Dell are asking for $6 million for themselves, but it is a claims-made settlement that will almost certainly pay a…
Blog
The Future of Air Travel?
First-generational suborbital crafts would reach 2,200 miles per hour, with an eventual goal of hitting 13,750 miles per hour. A trip from London to Sydney…
Blog
The Economic (Un)Development Administration
Last Friday Iain Murray and I published an op-ed in The Washington Times, which described how government spending fails to create economic growth. We show how the…
Blog
Free Trade Agreements are Not that Free
Business Insider reported that the Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama were sent to Congress today for their vote and approval…
Newsletter
The Patriot Act and Another Train to Nowhere
News Release
Congress Should Start Quantifying Federal Regulation
Washington, D.C., October 4, 2011—Lawmakers in the nation’s capital seem to be desperate to secure a big fix for the broken American economy. But as…
News Release
Free Trade Pacts Delayed by Failed Strategy of Union Appeasement, New CEI Report Finds
Washington, D.C., October 4, 2011 – President Obama yesterday sent three free trade agreements to Congress after years of stalling. A new report shows how…
Insurance & Financial Advisor
Bill Extending National Flood Insurance Program to Nov. 18 Approved
Live Insurance News
SmarterSafer.org Statement Urges Congress to Stop Passing Temporary Extensions of Flood Insurance
Housing Wire
House Extends National Flood Insurance Program
Daily Caller
Physics Nobel Rewards Human Achievement
Blog
Today’s Links: October 3, 2011
Blog
Shuttlyndra and Bipartisan Crony Capitalism
Over at Pajamas Media today, I tell a tale of crony capitalism that makes Solyndra look like a model of government…
Study
The Other National Debt Crisis
Runaway federal regulation represents the biggest threat to our economy today. To address the problem, lawmakers first need to define it and quantify its costs.
Blog
What if NFL Players Were Paid Like Teachers?
Newsletter
Medical Devices, Capital Bikeshare, and the CEI Podcast
Daily Caller
Craig Becker and Boeing
Daily Caller
Clean Air’s Dirty Residue
A lot has been made of recent court filings in which the Environmental Protection Agency suggested that it needed 230,000 more bureaucrats to regulate…
Daily Caller
Solar Energy School Propaganda 101
Reason
Warrantless GPS Tracking, Union Dues, and Fleeting Expletives: The Supreme Court Suits Up for Another Term
Reason
Arizona Officials Say “Accents Were Never the Focus” of Teacher Fluency Monitoring Suspended at Feds’ Insistence
Reason
Time Out for Federal Regulation
At the moment, the Federal Register stands at 61,247 pages–for 2011 alone. You can see the Code of Federal Regulations from space. Assuming this perturbs…
Reason
EPA Policy Based on ‘Junk Science’
Reason
Rising China: The Seen and Unseen
I just got back from a biotech conference in Changsha via Shanghai, the jewel of the new China. It was my first visit to the…
Free Republic
Present Day Prohibition
Fox News
Eight Ways to Keep People Out of Work
Fox News cites Wayne Crews's article on the cost of regulatory burden to make the case that ignoring the costs of regualtion will keep peolple…
Right Side News