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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…
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Questions Senators Should Be Asking Julius Genachowski
Tomorrow afternoon, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation will hold a confirmation hearing on Julius Genachowski, President Obama’s nominee to be Chairman…
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Feds Crack Down on Internet Poker
Just when it seemed that those in power had begun to think about Internet poker in a positive light, the Department of Justice throws us…
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LibertyWeek 46: The Great Porn Wall of China
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New Ideas for World Oceans Day
This week the United Nations is observing World Oceans Day. The Competitive Enterprise Institute believes this makes it an appropriate time to think about realistic…
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CEI to FCC: Don’t Strangle Broadband Industry
The Competitive Enterprise Institute this week filed comments advising the Federal Communications Commission on how best to proceed with its plan for a national…
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Bank Chairman to Speak Out on Banking Crisis and Capitalism at CEI 25th Anniversary Gala
This Thursday evening John Allison, Chairman of BB&T Bank, will deliver the keynote address at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 25th Anniversary Gala. Allison will…
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Sixty Years After the Publication of George Orwell’s Classic, Do We Face a Real “1984”?
Sixty years ago this week, George Orwell’s most important work of political fiction, 1984, was published. Orwell’s novel warned of the centralization of political power…
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LibertyWeek 45: Save the Beer Barns!
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New CEI Report Explores Hurricanes, Warming
A new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute questions alarmist predictions of increased hurricane damage resulting from human-caused global warming. The report recommends that…
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LibertyWeek 44: Is Sotomayor the New Souter?
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Ivan Osorio on the United Auto Workers and the Recession
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John Berlau Debates Corporate Insurance Policies
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Sam Kazman Debates Obama’s Car Mileage Regulations
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Myron Ebell on Car Mileage Regulations
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Obama’s New Fuel Economy Rules Deadly for Both People and Carmakers
Today President Obama will unveil a plan to sharply increase federal gas mileage rules for vehicles sold in the United States, eventually bringing the requirement…
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Calling All Liberty-Loving Writers
Our good friend and CEI alumna Kendra Okonski is looking for writers and journalists to enter the distinguished and lucrative Bastiat Prize Competition, presented…
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LibertyWeek 43: A House in Gross Disorder
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Ryan Radia on Intel and Antitrust
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Chris Horner on Green Propaganda in the Classroom
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Fred L. Smith, Jr. on Credit Cards
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LibertyWeek 42: Hugo Chávez, Robber Baron
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European Antitrust Ruling on Intel Threatens Future of Innovation
European Union authorities are reportedly on the verge of announcing that Intel has been found guilty of abusing its dominant market position by practicing so…
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Time to Start Paying Organ Donors
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LibertyWeek 41: SCOTUS Scurry
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Chris Horner on the White House Energy Summit
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Obama Tries to Broker Deal on Greenhouse Gas Restrictions
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LibertyWeek 40: Keepin’ It on the CL
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Vice President Uses Swine Flu as Anti-Stimulus
The Competitive Enterprise Institute calls on Vice President Biden to repudiate remarks made this morning on “The Today Show” about air travel in the context…
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When Government Spending Gets Really Obscene
My good friend and Bureaucrash ally Xaq Fixx recently altered me to an interesting story on the intersection of politics, technology and free…
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Congress Raises False Alarm on Consumer Privacy
This morning, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee held a hearing on recent developments in online privacy for consumers. This hearing explored several data…
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People Make Earth Day Better
This year, we at the Competitive Enterprise Institute are suggesting that those who will be celebrating Earth Day remember the challenges presented by living in…
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Good News, But Prostate Cancer Patients Still Waiting
Sunday’s meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research saw new hope for prostate cancer patients, as researchers announced very favorable results for the drug…
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VIDEO: People Make Earth Day Better
This year, the Competitive Enterprise Institute urges those celebrating Earth Day to remember the challenges presented by living in the natural world, and the inspiring ways that human…
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Hans Bader on Government Ownership of U.S. Banks
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