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Eli Lehrer: Legislature’s continued reliance on Catastrophe Fund a disaster for Florida finances
Cafe Hayek
A Tax By Any Other Name
Cafe Hayek
Obama Stimulus Shrinks Economy, Kills Jobs
Most of the $800 billion stimulus package has yet to be spent, but it’s already harming the economy, both by triggering trade wars that…
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Wasteful Obama Auto Bailouts Disturb Even Liberal Washington Post
Even the liberal Washington Post, which endorsed Obama and has not backed a Republican for president since 1952, is getting fed up with the…
Cafe Hayek
Hurricane Funds In Financial Trouble
Cafe Hayek
Regulators Fail Chemistry Test
Just how dangerous are modern chemicals? According to experts, not as much as regulators or the media would have you think. That’s the finding…
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Against Freedom, Against Art, Against Reality
The crusade against film depictions of tobacco smoking is once again gaining momentum. The American Medical Association Alliance, in coalition with several other well-funded special…
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The AFL-CIO’s “Creative Accounting”
The AFL-CIO has obscured its poor financial condition through “creative accounting,” says Machinists union President Tom Buffenbarger, reports Associated Press. Tom Buffenbarger, president of…
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Obama Justice Department Winks at Racist Voter Intimidation
Black Panthers in Philadelphia used nightsticks and racial epithets to drive white voters away from a polling place. “Career lawyers pursued the case for…
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Anti-GMO Zealots vs. Starving Zimbabweans
In Zimbabwe, the most food aid-dependent country in the world, officials and self-styled “consumer activists” have begun raiding shops suspected of selling genetically-modified food,…
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The Cost of Cybersecurity in Context
During his remarks, President Obama noted that "cyber crime has cost Americans more than $8 billion." He continued, "My presidency has so far cost Americans…
Newsletter
Cybersecurity, Credit Cards and Hurricane Insurance
President Obama is expected to announce the appointment of a new cybersecurity czar. Credit card holders prepare for the changes recently passed by Congress. Congress…
Cafe Hayek
Hurricane Funds In Financial Trouble
Cafe Hayek
Hurricane Funds In Financial Trouble
Cafe Hayek
Anticipated hurricanes fuel stormy insurance debate
Cafe Hayek
Hurricane Funds In Financial Trouble
Newsletter
Ethanol, Mortgages and General Motors
Efforts to subsidize ethanol production as a remedy to global warming hit resistance. The mortgage industry struggles to improve disclosure guarantees. Legal observers critique the…
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2009
Wayne Crews' annual accounting of the hidden taxes of regulation.
News Release
Obama’s Cybersecurity Czar Should Be Limited to Government Network Security
Tomorrow, President Obama is slated to name a “cybersecurity czar with a broad mandate” and issue a report outlining potential vulnerabilities in the…
Cafe Hayek
Will ACES Put Us in the Hole?
Cafe Hayek
Anticipated Hurricanes Fuel Stormy Insurance Debate
Cafe Hayek
Coalition Aims To Fight U.S. Cat Insurance Pool Proposal
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Coalition Aims To Fight U.S. Cat Insurance Pool Proposal
Cafe Hayek
Someone Has to Pay the Piper
As the cliché goes, the piper must be paid. And when the government decides that some folks are paying the piper too much,…
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Does the ethanol mandate increase CO2 emissions?
That may seem counter-intuitive, because burning ethanol merely puts back into the air the carbon dioxide (CO2) that corn crops recently pulled out of it, whereas burning gasoline…
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More Bailouts at Taxpayer Expense
Mortgage lenders are getting even bigger taxpayer subsidies to write off mortgage loans for potentially delinquent borrowers, reports today’s Washington Examiner. “President Barack Obama…
Newsletter
California’s Budget Woes, Sotomayor’s Nomination and Insurance Information
State legislators in California face a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall. Political observers praise President Obama for his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor as potentially the first…
Cafe Hayek
Group Formed to Oppose National Catastrophe Fund
Cafe Hayek
Group formed to oppose national catastrophe fund
Cafe Hayek
Insurance Plan Won’t Work
James Lee Witt and James Loy are, quite simply, wrong to suggest that a ”national catastrophe backstop” would help reduce homeowners’ insurance rates for…
International Affairs Forum
Climate Smart Aid Is Anything But
International organizations like the World Bank and the United Nations are supposed to help the world’s poor escape poverty, but fully convinced they are doing…
Investors' Business Daily
America’s Hidden Trillion-Dollar Tax
We need a breather to take it all in: TARP, a $787 billion stimulus bill and a projected $1.845 trillion budget deficit. But lost among…
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Laffer Curve No Laughing Matter
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Sotomayor NOT first Hispanic Justice — Cardozo was
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Compare and Contrast
Bjorn Lomborg, November 2007: …although it may seem almost comically straightforward, one of the best temperature-reducing approaches is very simple: paint things white. Cities…
Newsletter
The Credit Card Bill of Rights, Chrysler’s Bankruptcy and Carbon Trading
President Obama signs the credit card “bill of rights” into law. A federal bankruptcy judge prepares to rule on Chrysler’s financial future. Carbon trading is…
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LibertyWeek 44: Is Sotomayor the New Souter?
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Lamb Roast: Mankind’s Doom
News Release
CEI Fellow Praises Insurance Information Act
The head of the insurance project at the Competitive Enterprise Institute today praised Rep. Paul Kanjorski’s (D-PA) proposed Insurance Information Act (H.R. 2609). The bill…
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A Bleak Regulatory Future for the Tech Sector
May so far has been full of omens for the future of technology regulation. On Monday the 11th, the Obama administration announced that it would…
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Divorce Courts Harass Our Troops and Small Businesses
Memorial Day is an opportunity to thank our troops, and open our eyes to the disgraceful way they are treated by divorce courts. The bias…
Investors' Business Daily
Opponents Become Allies in the Face of a Storm
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Profiles in Hypocrisy: Gov. Arnold Pushes Violent Game Ban
California legislators, along with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, are still trying to ban the sale of violent video games to minors. Now, they’re taking their…
Investors' Business Daily
Beach Plan Fix Requires Higher Insurance Rates on Coast
Full document available in PDF.
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Waxman-Markey: Coercion for its own sake
Most media coverage of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES), focuses on the bill’s cap-and-trade program and the free rationing…
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Obama CAFE kills
President Obama unveiled Tuesday a plan to sharply increase federal gas mileage rules for vehicles sold in the United States, eventually bringing the requirement up…
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Chrysler Confronts Grim Future, Despite Billions in Taxpayer Subsidies
The federal government poured billions of dollars into Chrysler, which then went bankrupt and merged with Fiat. But Chrysler may never revive, thanks to absurdly…
Newsletter
Energy Rationing, Credit Cards and Car-Sharing in Maryland
The energy rationing bill sponsored by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) is approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Nashua Telegraph
Economists Say Stimulus Misses Mark
News Release
Energy Rationing Bill Passes House Committee
Energy Rationing Bill Passes House Committee Plan Would Take Trillions from Consumers, Transfer to Big Business Special Interests May 22, 2009, Washington, D.C.