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Progressives Need Democracy, Not Technocracy

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Progressives Need Democracy, Not Technocracy

  • By: Jack Nicastro
  • 08/12/2022

As Democrats debate the merits over legislative versus administrative action on topics ranging from climate change to gun control, they face a fundamental decision: technocracy…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

How the Inflation Reduction Act Favors Unions over Taxpayers

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How the Inflation Reduction Act Favors Unions over Taxpayers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/11/2022

The word “prevailing” appears 27 times in the text of the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed by Congress Sunday and…

Deregulation

CPI Gives Reason for Cautious Optimism on Inflation

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CPI Gives Reason for Cautious Optimism on Inflation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 08/10/2022

Inflation may finally be coming down. July’s month-to-month Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase dropped to zero last month, down from 1.3 percent in June. The…

Monetary Policy

Federal Agency Guidance Document Inventory Tops 107,000 Entries

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Federal Agency Guidance Document Inventory Tops 107,000 Entries

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 08/09/2022

Federal statutes appear in the U.S. Code. Regulations, pass through the Federal Register, and come to rest in the Code of Federal Regulations. But no…

Deregulation

CEI Submits Comment Opposing EPA Proposed Rule Allowing States to Use Clean Water Act as a Climate Policy Tool

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CEI Submits Comment Opposing EPA Proposed Rule Allowing States to Use Clean Water Act as a Climate Policy Tool

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/08/2022

Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute submitted a comment to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its proposed regulatory changes to Section 401 of the…

Energy and Environment

How the Inflation Reduction Act Will Expand Regulation

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How the Inflation Reduction Act Will Expand Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 08/08/2022

Ever since observers began tallying rule counts and pages in the Federal Register, detractors have complained about what poor measures such devices are. They might…

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 08/08/2022

The Inflation Reduction Act, which would not reduce inflation, is now expected to pass after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema agreed to sign on. Meanwhile, agencies issued…

Deregulation

Why Carried Interest Tax Hike Deserves to Die in IRA and Otherwise

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Why Carried Interest Tax Hike Deserves to Die in IRA and Otherwise

  • By: John Berlau
  • 08/05/2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (referred to by critics such as Phil Kerpen as the Income Reduction Act) will likely be voted on in the…

Financial Regulation

Schumer-Manchin Bill Undercuts West Virginia v. EPA

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Schumer-Manchin Bill Undercuts West Virginia v. EPA

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/05/2022

This Wednesday on Fox Business with Larry Kudlow and later on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned that buried…

Energy and Environment

How to Make Official Time Even Worse

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How to Make Official Time Even Worse

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/04/2022

“Official time” is the practice of allowing members of public sector unions to conduct union business while getting paid for the regular government job…

Labor and Employment

Think Handouts to Rich Electric Vehicle Buyers Are Unfair? Check Out the Inflation Reduction Act’s Homeowner Tax Breaks

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Think Handouts to Rich Electric Vehicle Buyers Are Unfair? Check Out the Inflation Reduction Act’s Homeowner Tax Breaks

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/04/2022

The Manchin-Schumer Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 extends the current tax credits up to $7,500 for electric vehicles (EVs). Among the many flaws with…

Energy and Environment

Important NEPA Reform Vote in Senate this Week, with Implications for the Schumer-Manchin Package

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Important NEPA Reform Vote in Senate this Week, with Implications for the Schumer-Manchin Package

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/02/2022

The Senate may vote as soon as this week to reinstate Trump administration reforms to the federal permit process under the National Environmental Policy Act…

Energy and Environment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 08/01/2022

GDP shrank, the Federal Reserve increased the federal funds rate, the Senate passed the CHIPS+ Act to subsidize chipmakers, and the Build…

Deregulation

Net Zero, Joe Manchin, and High Energy Prices

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Net Zero, Joe Manchin, and High Energy Prices

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 07/29/2022

This morning National Review published my article expressing skepticism that the advance of “net-zero” climate policy is inevitable (or even likely). It was written…

Business and Government

Regulators Going off the Rails on a Crazy Train

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Regulators Going off the Rails on a Crazy Train

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/28/2022

One year after a supply chain crisis caused shortages across the nation, the Biden administration is trying to prevent railroads from modernizing and automating.

Labor and Employment

As Congress Mulls Stablecoin Law, CEI Shows the Way

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As Congress Mulls Stablecoin Law, CEI Shows the Way

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 07/28/2022

Reports sprung last weekend that consensus stablecoin legislation from the House Financial Services Committee was near ready. While Congress is unlikely to debate…

Financial Regulation

The Facebook Antitrust Case Is Aging Poorly

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The Facebook Antitrust Case Is Aging Poorly

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 07/27/2022

Antitrust cases often take years to litigate. While wasteful, this isn’t always a bad thing. The politics surrounding a case might stay the same, but…

Antitrust

Getting Inflation Wrong and Making It Right

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Getting Inflation Wrong and Making It Right

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 07/26/2022

Everyone makes mistakes. Owning up to them is an underrated life skill that is almost non-existent among political pundits. Doubling down when threatened is a…

Deregulation

Stomping FROGs: An Updated Inventory of Biden’s Elimination of Trump-Era Final Rules on Guidance Document Procedures

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Stomping FROGs: An Updated Inventory of Biden’s Elimination of Trump-Era Final Rules on Guidance Document Procedures

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 07/26/2022

Since President Obama unleashed the pen and phone, federal agency guidance documents and the confusion and abuse surrounding them has been covered extensively.

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 07/25/2022

President Biden signed the FORMULA Act, which will temporarily suspend baby formula tariffs and other regulatory measures that made the formula shortage worse. Footage emerged…

Deregulation

Tennessee Corruption Case Raises Questions about Forfeiture and Police Office Culture

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Tennessee Corruption Case Raises Questions about Forfeiture and Police Office Culture

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 07/22/2022

On a summer Tennessee night in 2021, Deputy Daniel Jacobs of the Tipton County Sheriff’s Office attempted, essentially, to sell a 2010 Lincoln MKZ to…

Legal

UK Leads on Crypto Privacy

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UK Leads on Crypto Privacy

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 07/21/2022

The much-hyped “crypto winter” has emboldened cryptocurrency critics. The usual charges of “Ponzi scheme” (Robert Reich) and “The Big Scam” (Paul Krugman) have…

Financial Regulation

Celebrating Pat Michaels: Colleague, Mentor, and Friend

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Celebrating Pat Michaels: Colleague, Mentor, and Friend

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/19/2022

Dr. Patrick Michaels, a leading light of the climate realist movement and cheerful warrior for scientific integrity and individual liberty, died unexpectedly last week. CEI…

Energy and Environment

Former Trade Official Opposes Minor Tariff Relief

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Former Trade Official Opposes Minor Tariff Relief

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 07/19/2022

Now that former President Trump’s China tariffs are four years old, a mandatory review process is underway. President Biden has indicated he might lift…

Trade and International

Green Politics Leads to Higher Gas Prices

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Green Politics Leads to Higher Gas Prices

  • By: Rachel Erich
  • 07/18/2022

Americans have been plagued by high gas prices in recent months, with recent polls showing fuel costs at the top of the list of…

Business and Government

The Effect of Transfer Payments on the Labor Force Participation Rate

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The Effect of Transfer Payments on the Labor Force Participation Rate

  • By: Joshua Rutzick
  • 07/18/2022

In the The Wall Street Journal last Thursday, James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute laid out the case for the relationship between a shrinking…

Labor and Employment

Financial Regulators’ Climate Fetish

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Financial Regulators’ Climate Fetish

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 07/18/2022

Financial regulators’ attention, both in the United States and globally, seems focused on issues far afield from their core mission at a time when turmoil…

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 07/18/2022

The James Webb Space Telescope sent back its first images, and they are amazing. The Consumer Price Index increased 9.1 percent over the last…

Deregulation

New CEI Paper Lays Out the Worst in Tech Legislation

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New CEI Paper Lays Out the Worst in Tech Legislation

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 07/14/2022

Bipartisanship in Congress is rare, but it shouldn’t always be celebrated. Bad ideas, despite consensus, still lead to bad results. And recent congressional efforts to…

Tech and Telecom

A Closer Look at The Guardian’s “The Uber Files”

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A Closer Look at The Guardian’s “The Uber Files”

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/13/2022

On July 11, 2022, The Guardian published an expose of rideshare giant Uber’s business practices, based on a trove of leaked documents it obtained. However,…

Deregulation

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