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The Department of Pre-Regulation
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Activist Cash: Who Wants $20,000?
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LibertyWeek 79: Where Are the Jobs?
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CEI Available for Comment on the State of the Union Address
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LibertyWeek 78: Obama’s 23% Approval Rating
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LibertyWeek 77: The Future of the Senate
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LibertyWeek 75: Credit Cards, Government-Style
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LibertyWeek 74: TSA Under Fire
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Horner & Horner Fight Global Warming Alarmism
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FTC Suit Against Intel Misguided and Uninformed
Today the Federal Trade Commission filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corporation. The suit, which accuses Intel of violating Section 5 of…
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LibertyWeek 73: Understanding ‘Obamanomics’
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All the Former Vice President’s Men: ClimateGate
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LibertyWeek 72: Champagne Wishes and Climate Change Dreams
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Amended Petition to the EPA on the Proposed Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases
On October 5, CEI petitioned EPA to reopen its Endangerment Proceeding because of a disclosure by the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU)…
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Myron Ebell Debates Climategate on Fox News
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LibertyWeek 71: The Politics of Booze
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LibertyWeek 70: Climate-Gate Bursts Forth
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Chris Horner Calls for Investigation of ‘ClimateGate’
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Senate Health Care Bill Will Bust the Budget and Hurt Patients
The Senate health reform proposal released today by Majority Leader Harry Reid contains no mechanisms that are likely to reduce the annual rate of health…
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LibertyWeek 69: Feeding the World with Property Rights
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LibertyWeek 68: Take from the Rich, Give to Yourself
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20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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November 5th March on the Capitol Against Government Takeover of Healthcare
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Guy Fawkes Day: V for Vendetta
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LibertyWeek 67: Cash for Kids in Court
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Europe’s Disastrous Climate Policy – a Lesson for Congress
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today cheered the publication of a new report that could help save the United States from an expensive, damaging new system…
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LibertyWeek 66: The War on Commerce
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LibertyWeek 65: Your TV Violates State Law
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People: The Ultimate Resource
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Net Neutrality Rules Depress Investment, Reduce Competition
On Thursday, October 22, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would put government, rather than consumers and…
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LibertyWeek 64: Regulators Gone Wild!
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Moderates Should Be Cautious on Health Care Reform
The Senate Finance Committee today approved new health care legislation by a 14 to 9 vote and reported it out to the full Senate. All…
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European Union Finally Agrees with CEI: Kyoto Protocol Has Failed
This week the European Union has finally agreed with the Competitive Enterprise Institute that the Kyoto Protocol – the United Nations treaty aimed at reducing…
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LibertyWeek 63: Suing the Government into Honesty
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Student Loan Socialism
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Senate Takes on Cap and Trade
Washington, D.C., September 29, 2009—On Wednesday Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) are scheduled to introduce global warming legislation that would create a…
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LibertyWeek 62: Soak the Rich, Reap the Wind
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Lee Doren Discusses ‘The Story of Stuff’ on Lou Dobbs
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Lee Doren on Glenn Beck discussing “The Story of Stuff”
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LibertyWeek 61: How About FCC Neutrality?
Your host Richard Morrison welcomes returning guest co-host William Yeatman and special guest commenter Ryan Radia to the program for Episode 61 of the…
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Anti-Automobile Activists Gear up for “World Car-Free Day”
As organizers prepare to observe “World Car-Free Day” tomorrow, the Competitive Enterprise Institute would like to remind observers and participants of the value of personal…
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Think Tank Calls For FCC Neutrality
On Monday morning, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced new “network neutrality” rules governing Internet providers, including wireless companies. …
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LibertyWeek 60: The Man Who Fed the World
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CEI Comments on Resignation of Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Burnes
A Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, commented today on the announcement that Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes would…
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Berlau in New York Times on Overdraft Fees from Debit Cards – with Misleading Headline
John Berlau, Director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, was a guest contributor this week to the New York…
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LibertyWeek 59: The New March on Washington
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Institute Condemns FDA Crackdown on Truthful Drug Advertising
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today condemned a recent Food and Drug Administration and Department of Justice crackdown on the dissemination by drug manufacturers of information…
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Energy Coalition
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EPA Proposes ‘Illegal’ Clean Air Rule
The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a proposed rule to the White House that would allow regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, but restrict the scope…
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LibertyWeek 58: Throw the Bums Out!
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CEI Responds to Tower Hill Rating Downgrade
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, reacted to A.M. Best’s rating downgrade of Tower Hill Insurance Companies and Tower Hills’ subsequent decision…
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Think Tank Blasts FCC Wireless Investigation
Tomorrow, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce a "three-pronged probe" of wireless industry practices at its Open Commission meeting. The FCC's…
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CEI Suggests Questions for Florida Insurance Commissioner
Scholars at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, today urged Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty to accept Rep. Scott Plakon’s invitation to…
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LibertyWeek 57: The Scandal That Wouldn’t Die
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LibertyWeek 56: On the Waterfront
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CEI Calls Foul on NCAA Attempt to Block Sports Betting
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today criticized a federal law that is being used by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and major sports leagues to restrict…
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John Berlau on the future of GM
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LibertyWeek 55: The Health Care Mob Is Coming!
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CEI Proposes Legalizing Horse Meat Sale
A Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank with offices in Washington, D.C. and Tallahassee, proposes a simple solution to the spate…
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Policy Translated: Health Care Reform
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Think tank questions denial of State Farm mitigation discount rate filing request
The Florida Insurance Project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute today questioned state insurance regulators’ decision to deny State Farm’s request to reduce mandatory discounts for…
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Dissent Is Still the Highest Form of Patriotism, Right?
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CEI Announces Second Annual ‘Out of the Storm’ Conference on Insurance Reform
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Risk, Regulation, and Markets (RRM) announced today that they will be co-hosting a conference in New Orleans along with…
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Policy Translated: Corporate Social Responsibility
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The Truth About Global Warming: Feedbacks
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LibertyWeek 54: Read My Lips
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Policy Translated: Technology Regulation
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Policy Translated: The Homeowners’ Defense Act
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Hurricanes, Dan Rather’s Media Plan and New Insurance Taxes
Global hurricane activity reaches a 30 year low, confounding predictions of more hurricanes caused by global warming. Retired CBS newsreader Dan…
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More on the Microhoo Deal
The long-awaited collaboration of Microsoft and Yahoo on search has the tech business community abuzz. CEI analysts Wayne Crews and Ryan Young made their original…
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CEI Blasts Rep. Neal’s Reinsurance Tax Bill
A Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, today blasted Rep. Richard Neal’s (D-MA) introduction of a bill to impose…
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VIDEO: Healthcare Reform Ideas from the Other Washington
John Barnes at the Washington Policy Center (motto: “Improving Lives Through Market Solutions”) passes on a 3-video series about the fight over healthcare “reform” we’re…
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Policy Translated: Special Access Reform
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LibertyWeek 53: The Real Crooks of New Jersey
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Policy Translated: Stimulus to Nowhere
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Justice Department Should Leave the Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Alone
Today, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a ten-year partnership of their search businesses in order to better compete against Google. The Department of Justice, citing antitrust…
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Policy Translated: Introduction
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NEW VIDEO: Policy Translated
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Clear Government Roadblocks to Broadband Competition
Contrary to many critics, investment in broadband networks by U.S. telecommunications firms is booming, and the biggest roadblocks to even more robust growth are primarily…
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LibertyWeek 52: Tim Carney – Uncensored
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Rep. McClintock and “California’s Meltdown”
CEI and the Pacific Research Institute recently co-hosted a Capitol Hill briefing on “California’s Meltdown” – the unprecedented combination of flawed economic, energy…
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Obama Surgeon General Pick Challenged to Focus on Private Initiative, Not Government Controls
President Obama announced his pick for Surgeon General this week – Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, a family physician from Bayou La Batre, Ala. Competitive Enterprise…
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LibertyWeek 51: Watch for Falling Rupees
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CEI Questions FL Insurance Commissioner’s ‘gut feeling’ on State Farm
The Florida Office director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Insurance Project today questioned the basis for Commissioner Kevin McCarty’s “gut feeling” that State Farm will…
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CEI Questions ProtectingAmerica.org Insurance Study
Analysts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, criticized protectingamerica.org’s continued advocacy for a federal insurance backstop.
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LibertyWeek 50: Detroit Bribe City
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Michelle Minton at the July 4th DC Tea Party
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UnderMining Prosperity
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LibertyWeek 49: Censoring Science at the EPA
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Proposed Labor Rules Would Give Government Power to Impose New Union Contracts
Legislation currently before Congress could rewrite the rules for negotiating union contracts, giving the federal government power to unilaterally impose a contract on an employer,…
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CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA
The public shouldn’t be kept in the dark by an agency supposedly committed to transparency.
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LibertyWeek 48: Total Privacy Awareness
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CEI Fellow Blasts Florida Governor Crist’s Veto of Consumer Choice Insurance Bill
The head of the insurance project at the Competitive Enterprise Institute attacked Gov. Charlie Crist’s decision to veto the Consumer Choice Insurance Bill.
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EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that a senior official of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency actively suppressed a scientific analysis of climate change because…
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Cap and Trade Round-Up
Word has it that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade/energy tax bill is finally hitting the floor of the House, probably this Friday. CEI is decidedly in the…
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CEI Launches Information Site Devoted to National Regulatory Modernization for Insurance
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today announced the formal launch of a new website devoted to news and information about the National Insurance Consumer Protection Act…
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On 40th Anniversary of Cuyahoga Fire, Myths Loom Larger Than Reality
Today is the 40th Anniversary of the famous Cuyahoga river fire in Cleveland, Ohio. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating the anniversary, because it…
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Dinner Movie: It’s a Wonderful Institute
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LibertyWeek 47: Persian Powder Keg
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CEI Florida Insurance Director Urges Approval of “Crash Tax” Ban
The Director of the Florida Insurance Project at the Competitive Enterprise Institute today urged Gov. Charlie Crist to sign a bill that would end “crash…