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• By: Ryan Young
• 03/10/2011

Andy Greenberg reports that the TSA would like to expand its scanning operations to pedestrians and train passengers.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/10/2011

Back before the election, intellectuals with ties to the Obama Administration proposed a trillion-dollar bailout for some (but not all) underwater mortgage borrowers, as a way…

Banking and Finance

• By: John Berlau
• 03/10/2011

Banking and Finance

• Nicole Ciandella
• 03/10/2011

Washington, D.C., March 10, 2011 — The House Judiciary Committee is currently considering a law that would require all private employers in the United…

Labor and Employment

• By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
• 03/09/2011

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/08/2011

This year’s budget battle is especially heated. Democrats want the federal budget to be $3.7 trillion. Republicans want it to be $3.6 trillion. Both sides…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 03/08/2011

The debate over the government employee protests in Wisconsin has skipped over a fundamental question: Why does collective bargaining exist in the first place? Equality…

Labor and Employment

• By: John Berlau
• 03/08/2011

Here's my full statement on today's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the REINS Act: We commend the House Judiciary Committee for gathering distinguished experts…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/08/2011

Happy Fat Tuesday, everyone! While you enjoy that frosty alcoholic beverage, enjoy this latest round of alcohol-related regulatory actions throughout the nation:…

Consumer Freedom

• By: F. Vincent Vernuccio, Trey Kovacs
• 03/08/2011

The fundamental issue in Wisconsin — and states considering similar budget cuts — is not whether government employees should contribute more (in Wisconsin’s case, more…

Labor and Employment

• Christine Hall
• 03/08/2011

Washington, D.C., March 8, 2011 — Congress has an opportunity to restore oversight and accountability to federal regulatory agencies run amuck, as the House Judiciary…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/07/2011

Politicians love small businesses. Almost every campaign stump speech gushes about how important they are for the economy. Never afraid to put our money where…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Grant Babcock
• 03/07/2011

In his work The State, sociologist Franz Oppenheimer draws a distinction that has been widely adopted among libertarian intellectuals. Oppenheimer outlines two methods of acquiring…

Labor and Employment

• Christine Hall
• 03/07/2011

Washington, D.C., March 7, 2011 — The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear CEI’s constitutional challenge to the 1998 tobacco settlement, a $200 billion…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/04/2011

A Connecticut legislator is seeking to restrict the speech of employers on “religious or political” topics in pending legislation  (House Bill 5460). The bill…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/04/2011

It’s hard to deny that lasers are cool, but a lasers that can blast mosquitoes out of the sky, protecting us from the malaria spreading…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Jacqueline Otto
• 03/04/2011

My letter to the editor in today’s Washington Post: The Feb. 24 front-page article “New kidney transplant rules would favor younger patients” reported…

Consumer Freedom