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Home Not Alone – Part Deux
On February 23 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Ziman v. New York State, ending a regulatory saga so long-running…
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Flush With Anger
The federal government does a lot of dumb things. Perhaps the dumbest was Congress’ decision to have the federal government redesign household appliances. In…
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Fishing For Solutions
While dramatic stories of thedepletion of the world’s fish stocks frequently grab the spotlight in the popular press, reports of the death of fishing…
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Conservation Easements & Private Land Stewardship
Full Document Available in PDF “Conservation easements” are property rights created to…
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Privileged Polluters: The Case Against Exempting Municipalities From Superfund
Full Document Available in PDF Superfund is widely regarded as…
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The Common Law Approach to Pollution Prevention
Full Document Available in PDF The Cuyahoga River may not catch fire…
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Climate Care
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Climate Care
Full article available in pdf format ClintonCare—Bill and Hillary Clinton’s plan to nationalize…
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Bill, Bob, and Browsers: Why DOJ’s Case Against Microsoft is Flawed
While Microsoft has been pilloried by newspaper pundits, a trial court judge, and other alleged computer experts for not submitting to the federal government,…
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Network Effects: Does Luck or Talent Rule the High-Technology Market?
Does luck matter more than talent in the marketplace after all? Many of today’s calls for antitrust interference in the marketplace are rooted in a…
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Supreme Court Turns Down Suit On New York Rent Control
Washington, DC, February 23, 1998 — The United States Supreme Court today declined to hear a constitutional attack on New York State’s restriction of…
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Vol. II, No. 4
Politics Senator Inhofe Opposes Clinton’s Greenhouse Budget U.S. Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) has made it clear he will oppose the Clinton Administration’s $6.3 billion…
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Free-Market Think Tank Enters Electric Power Business
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free market think tank, today announced its entry into the electric power market and demanded that utilities open…
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Ten Thousand Commandments: A Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1998 edition)
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Vol. II, No. 3
Politics Clinton’s Multi-billion Dollar Plan On January 30, the Clinton administration announced a $6.3 billion emissions reduction plan. The budget for fiscal year 1999 will…
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We Luv Our Suvs
For a country so concerned about the well-being of soccer moms, it is hard to understand the recent verbal assault on their transportation of…
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Back to the Future
Over the past several years, America has faced a disturbing trend. It started with the disco revival and John Travolta’s return to the silver screen.
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Flirting With Disaster
Congress is again exploring new ways to undermine the private market for homeowners insurance in disaster-prone parts of the country. On February…
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Coveted Internet Cash Cow?
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Grassroots ESA Coalition Warns Against Dangers of Species Bill
Washington, DC, January 29, 1998 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today that it will be co-sponsoring a congressional and media briefing on S.1180…
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CEI Blasts Big-Government Era State of Union Message
Washington DC, January 28 –”President Clinton’s State of the Union message makes it clear that the era of big government is not over,” said…
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Privacy As Censorship: A Skeptical View of Proposals to Regulate Privacy in the Private Sector
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Hidden “Taxes” Cost Families 20 Percent of Income
Washington, DC, January 22, 1998 — Federal regulations cost taxpayers $688 billion in 1997, over 40 percent more than the size of the entire…
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Vol. II, No. 2
Politics No Stealth Implementation Rep. David McIntosh, R-Ind., directed his Government Reform and Oversight regulatory subcommittee to send letters to the Environmental Protection Agency, the…
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Institute Attacks Whitman Call For State Control of Open Space
Washington, DC, January 21, 1998 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blasted Governor Christie Todd Whitman’s (R-NJ) plan to lock up one million acres…
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Bi-Partisan Forum To Evaluate IMF
Washington, DC, January 12, 1998 – An unprecedented coalition of left and right-leaning organizations will conduct a forum on Capitol Hill to discuss the…
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Vol. II, No. 1
Politics You Think One Kyoto is Bad? Try Thirty Jorge Sarmiento of Princeton University told Science (December 19, 1997) after the completion of the Kyoto…
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Who’ll “Manage” Managed Care?
Public anxieties over the quality and limitations of managed health care are fueling a new round of federal proposals to regulate the medical marketplace. The…
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Bail Out For The Foolish
My Daddy always said never get between a fool and his mistake – it would sacrifice the only good that might come from the…
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Free Market Mission to Kyoto
Japan’s Foreign Minister opened the United Nations climate conference in Kyoto by calling it "an event that could change the history of mankind." Hoping to…
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Farmland Everywhere
To just about anyone who has driven non-stop from St. Louis to Denver it is practically inconceivable that American is running out of farmland. Yet…
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What Makes for a Good Land Trust?
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Institute Denounces Air Bag Deactivation Rule: Too Little, Too Late
WASHINGTON, DC, November 18, 1997 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that the U.S. Transportation Department's new air bag deactivation rule was a…
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Vol. I, No. 12
Politics What Have We Done? In November the Clinton Administration announced its negotiating position for the upcoming Kyoto conference. It proposed stabilization of emissions at…
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Kyoto Media Advisory: December 10, 1997
Industrialized nations have tentatively agreed to a global warming protocol covering six “greenhouse gases” — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur…
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Kyoto Media Advisory: December 8, 1997
Kyoto Gets Gored Al Gore flew into Kyoto this morning — allegedly not to solicit funds at the more than 100,000 Buddhist temples…
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Kyoto Media Advisory: December 5, 1997
Third World Fumes COP-3 in Kyoto is the culmination of earlier summits — the Rio Conference in 1992, the implementation of energy curtailment…
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Kyoto Media Advisory: December 4, 1997
Poor Countries Still Oppose Energy Starvation Diet Developing countries continue to signal their unwillingness to sign binding emissions reduction targets in Kyoto. The…
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Will Gas Lines Come Back?
WASHINGTON, DC, December 3, 1997 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) began an ad campaign this morning attacking the proposed climate treaty being negotiated…
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Kyoto Media Advisory: December 3, 1997
Many at COP-3 are behaving as if the Clinton-Gore administration speaks for the U.S — as if the eager quest for an aggressive global…
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Kyoto Media Advisory: December 2, 1997
COP-3 opened as a Victorian drama, with the U.S. position in imminent peril as its prime defender, Undersecretary of State Tim Wirth, suddenly abandoned…
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The Economy of the Mind
Address to the Competitive Enterprise Institute ANA Hotel, Washington D.C. Tuesday, October 21, 1997 Thank you, Stan [Evans]. As Bill Clinton says…
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Deja Vu All Over Again
History doesn’t repeat itself, but the machinations of big-government politicians are vexingly repetitious. Perhaps nothing better illustrates the plus ca change, plus ca meme…
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Schell’s Game in Seattle
In November, Seattle voters elected Paul Schell mayor. Few were surprised. Schell was the anointed candidate, the establishment favorite. Populist challenger Charlie Chong, by contrast,…
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Kyoto Media Advisory: December 1, 1997
(Kyoto, December 1, 1997) Japan’s Foreign Minister opened the UN climate conference, known as “COP-3,” by calling it “an event that could change the…
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Vol. I, No. 11
Politics Europe May Compromise The European Union’s chief negotiator, Jorgen Henningsen, has conceded that the EU may be willing soften its stance on climate change.
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Ralph Nader’s Anti-Microsoft Campaign Hurts Consumers
WASHINGTON, DC, November 12 , 1997 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) suspects that Ralph Nader does not speak for all consumers in his…
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Every Air Bag A Wanted Air Bag
Last December, as news spread of the risks posed by air bags to children and other vulnerable groups, President Clinton promised that “car dealers…