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Excerpts from Solutions for an Environment in Peril

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/02/2001

FREE-MARKET ENVIRONMENTALISM Protecting the Environment via Private Property Excerpts from Solutions for an Environment in Peril…

Energy and Environment

Study

Free Market Environmentalism: Protecting the Environment Via Private Property

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/01/2001

Full Document Available in PDF There is an alternative…

Climate

Orange County Register

No Price Controls

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/25/2001

Energy and Environment

News Release

CEI President Offers Statement On National Tragedy

  • Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/19/2001

As we reflect on the tragic events of September 11, our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and those around the world…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

You Bastards: You Killed Bambi!

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2001

After recently watching Bambi, I worry that I may never again have an intelligent thought about man and nature. First we killed Bambi’s…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

Half a Cheer for the U.N.

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2001

Just when you thought you could count on a group to be consistent – they do something reasonable. The United Nations has rarely been a…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

It’s Magic!

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2001

The Left has a strange view of technology. Sometimes they like it, sometimes they fear it, and other times they view it as…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Privatizing National Parks

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2001

Wonders never cease. China, once the poster child for socialist nonsense (remember the backyard steel furnaces?), seems determined to experiment with a wide…

Energy and Environment

Products

September 2001 Edition of CEI Update

  • By: Ben Lieberman, Christopher C. Horner, Fred L. Smith, Jr., Jack Kemp, James V. DeLong, Robert H. Nelson, Sam Kazman, Sean Paige
  • 09/01/2001

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “U.S. Triumphs In Bonn”…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

How the IMF Could Become a Real S&P for International Debt

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/03/2001

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Two key members of Congress, House Majority Whip Tom Delay and House…

Free Speech

Op-Eds

When Property Rights Lead to Socialism

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/01/2001

Economists have long been ecstatic about the growing enthusiasm of the greenies for the market. At last, economists chortle, our expertise will play a…

Climate

Orange County Register

CO2 Controls Are a Bad Idea: Voluntary or Not

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Robert Crandall
  • 07/31/2001

  Smith and Crandall Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal The Bush administration courageously rejected the Kyoto Protocol but is now considering “voluntary” carbon-dioxide suppression…

Climate

Op-Eds

Warming to Bush: The Political Complexities of Suppressing Global Energy Use

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 07/14/2001

Those concerned that the Bush administration might have miscued on Kyoto will be reassured by a careful reading of the new boo Smith…

Climate

Op-Eds

Sustainable Development? How About Sustainable Growth?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/31/2001

The economic news out of Europe is bad — again. The euro is trending lower. German business confidence is down. Once-optimistic growth forecasts are being…

Climate

Products

Energy Anorexia

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/14/2001

By now everyone (save perhaps those fateful few interviewed on the Jay Leno show) knows California has an electricity crisis From…

Energy and Environment

Comment

Politics and Energy Go Together Like Love and Marriage

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/24/2001

POLITICS AND ENERGY Remarks by CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr., to new members of Congress at a luncheon held by the National Association…

Wall Street Journal

Norton Faces Tough Scrutiny of Her Words, Activities at Hearing

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/13/2001

Op-Eds

The State on Autopilot

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/31/2000

The almost-tie election, both in the presidential sweepstakes and in the House and Senate, suggest some problems ahead for the friends of economic…

Climate

Op-Eds

Rational Ignorance And Election Hype

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/31/2000

Full Article Availabe in PDF Format Executive Summary A review of the recent election from the cultural value perspective…

Business and Government

Washington Times

A Conservative for EPA

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/22/2000

Energy and Environment

Washington Times

Racicot’s Answer OK with Right

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/21/2000

Products

…Until They Know You Care

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/01/2000

The recent election results suggest that if classical liberals,libertarians and conservatives, and free-market advocates want From the December issue of CEI…

Business and Government

Products

The Despairing Optimist: To the Victor the Spoils?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/10/2000

The Despairing Optimist:   Friday afternoon (post-election) November 10, 2000   Who will be our next President? It’s still up in…

Business and Government

Comment

The Winds Of Global Change: Which Way Are They Blowing?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2000

We are living in the best of times, and the worst of times. On the one hand, innovative forces are transforming the world, creating massive…

Products

Fannie and Freddie: Fiscal Frauds

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/31/2000

From the August/September 2000 issue of CEI UpDate   Those who fear that undue accumulations of power are destabilizing the American economy always…

Telecommunications

Washington Times

Fed Up. . . or Well Served by Fannie and Freddie?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/23/2000

Business and Government

Comment

Fred Smith Supplemental Remarks

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/21/2000

REMARKS TO THE HOUSE BANKING COMMITTEE SUPPLEMENTAL REMARKS TO THE HOUSE BANKING COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE OF…

Comment

CEI President Testifies on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/15/2000

Full Document Available in PDF Fred L. Smith, Jr. Testimony Before the House…

Op-Eds

Monomania

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/01/2000

While on a recent trip to Seattle, I was tempted to ride on the local religious icon – the monorail relic from the…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

The Peaceable Kingdom

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/01/2000

A recent meeting between Christian Right leader, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, and gay rights activists, the Reverend Mel White, suggests that America may…

Business and Government

Washington Times

Is Mankind a Titanic Failure

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/18/2000

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a spokesperson for Earth Day 2000 (April 22), has bought into environmental alarmism. “The Earth is heating up and…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/15/2000

Full Document Available in PDF Julian Simon would have been impressed…

Climate

Op-Eds

Don’t Tax the Net: Fred Smith in Economic Affairs

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/29/2000

Published in Economic Affairs, the journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Edited…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

CEI’s Fred Smith is Marketing the Market

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/29/2000

Full article available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   Navigator: CEI was founded in…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

The Dangers of Precaution

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/16/2000

Full Document Available in PDF Has Europe, long the home of so…

Business and Government

Products

Beware the Internet Tax Hackers

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/01/2000

Tax-hungry Grinches aren’t happy that you pay no taxes when Christmas shopping on the Internet. The nation’s governors and state and local officials,…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

A Cowboy Economy?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/31/1999

On recent trips to Europe, I’ve become increasingly aware of a reality disconnect between the way America is and the way we’re viewed…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Winning Intellectual Battles, Losing Cultural Wars

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/31/1999

While free market advocates wage the intellectual fight, the statists have conquered much of our culture. Twice recently, I was asked to contribute…

Business and Government

Comment

Remarks by Fred Smith to the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce Panel on International Taxes, Tariffs & Duties Assoc

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/14/1999

San Francisco, California This Commission has heard repeatedly that the Internet is one of the most promising developments in the world economy…

Comment

Remarks To The Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/14/1999

  Full Document Available in PDF Video available here. To the Advisory Commission on Electronic…

Op-Eds

No: Well-Intentioned Boycotts Actually Make the Climb out of Grinding Poverty Even More Difficult

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/29/1999

Someone once noted that the law was amazingly equitable – it forbids both the king and the pauper to sleep beneath the bridge! And…

Trade and International

Products

In the Dark at Sun

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/24/1999

Antitrust

Products

Rush to Tax Could Produce Net Loss

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/24/1999

In the great Kurosawa Akira movie, The Seven Samurai, a bandit gang rides to a hillside and looks down on a small village. One…

Business and Government

Insider Online

Selling Ideas in a Rationally Ignorant World

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/01/1999

Conservative intellectuals are increasingly frustrated at the policy impasse of the last five years. Weren’t we told that if we built a better mousetrap, the…

Business and Government

Products

Cows or Buffaloes?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/21/1999

Lands and Wildlife

Comment

The Case For Repealing Antitrust Law

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/1999

Full Document Available in PDF The life of a free marketeer is…

Washington Times

A DOT Driving Record

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/19/1999

Transportation

Comment

Compassionate Conservatism” — The Feminization Or The Liberalization Of Republican Policy?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/01/1999

Compassionate conservatism, the first major slogan of the Y2K election, has proven a controversial theme for Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush. Proponents see…

Op-Eds

NATO Raison D’Etre

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/01/1999

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In a Washington Post op-ed supporting the bombing of Serbia, Bill Kristol…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Guilt By Association With Bill Bennett

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/01/1999

Ralph Raico’s Reflection “Won’t You Go Home, Bill Bennett?” (April) on the Center for Individual Right’s challenge to race-based student admission policies suggests…

Business and Government

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