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Chuck Schumer’s Unconstitutional Money-Wasting Machine

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Chuck Schumer’s Unconstitutional Money-Wasting Machine

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 03/02/2018

If you wanted a counterterrorism technology that could match Amtrak in terms of derailments, you couldn’t do much better than to use “stand-off explosive detection…

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Is Administrative Law Unlawful?

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Is Administrative Law Unlawful?

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 02/07/2018

Philip Hamburger's book Is Administrative Law Unlawful? will remind readers that much of modern bureaucracy violates the careful separation of powers that the Framers wrote into…

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CEI Asks Supreme Court to Review Ulbricht Conviction

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CEI Asks Supreme Court to Review Ulbricht Conviction

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 02/05/2018

CEI has joined an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the conviction of Ross Ulbricht, who is currently serving a life sentence…

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Increasing Public Awareness Bolsters Potential for Blockchain Applications

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Increasing Public Awareness Bolsters Potential for Blockchain Applications

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 01/22/2018

Blockchain is a software architecture that seems very likely to unleash profound global forces if it crosses over into the mainstream.

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Supreme Court Should Safeguard Rights to Digital Property in Microsoft Case

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Supreme Court Should Safeguard Rights to Digital Property in Microsoft Case

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 01/18/2018

The Court should recognize that communications and data are property, and cut off the “innovative” use of subpoenas to collect data that should require a…

CEI Litigation

Bitcoin’s Wonderful, Awful Year

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Bitcoin’s Wonderful, Awful Year

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 01/03/2018

Will Bitcoin’s social capital grow to justify the current high price?…

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Digital Finance Pioneers Using Bitcoin for Savings, Payments,…and Donations

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Digital Finance Pioneers Using Bitcoin for Savings, Payments,…and Donations

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 12/18/2017

Your support for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, given in Bitcoin or dollars, can help us strengthen the hand of the businesses that offer a revolution…

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Economics Will Be Our Ruination, Bitcoin Edition—and Some Notes on Securing Your Cryptocurrency

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 12/06/2017

Asked about Bitcoin last week, economics Nobel laureate and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz said, among other gems, “It ought to be outlawed. It…

Banking and Finance

Court Orders Coinbase to Turn over Cryptocurrency User Data to IRS

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Court Orders Coinbase to Turn over Cryptocurrency User Data to IRS

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 11/30/2017

Congress should revisit the law to protect privacy and due process in IRS investigations.

Banking and Finance

Supreme Court can Strike a Victory for Privacy in Carpenter v. United States

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Supreme Court can Strike a Victory for Privacy in Carpenter v. United States

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 11/29/2017

The “reasonable expectation of privacy” test invites courts into difficult line-drawing exercises when they try to apply the Fourth Amendment in hard cases.

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Framework for a Free Society: Celebrating the Ideas of Bruno Leoni

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Framework for a Free Society: Celebrating the Ideas of Bruno Leoni

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 11/21/2017

People can manage their affairs, even drawing and administering the lines between right and wrong, without legislators and bureaucrats.

Business and Government

The Equifax Breach and Regulation

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The Equifax Breach and Regulation

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 09/08/2017

In the Equifax breach, regulation is a likely contributor to the problem. It is probably not a good solution.

Banking and Finance

Defending 4th Amendment Privacy Protections for Digital Property

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Defending 4th Amendment Privacy Protections for Digital Property

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 08/14/2017

People have property rights in data about themselves that is allocated by contract between them and their service providers.

Law and Litigation

For the Sake of Financial Privacy, IRS Subpoena of Coinbase Should Go

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For the Sake of Financial Privacy, IRS Subpoena of Coinbase Should Go

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 08/03/2017

Our brief in United States v. Coinbase might have a lot to say about what the future of financial privacy looks like.

Banking and Finance

Protect Free Speech Guarantees of Communications Decency Act

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Protect Free Speech Guarantees of Communications Decency Act

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 07/31/2017

If operators of websites were responsible for what each of their users posted online, they could be on the hook for every potential defamation, infliction…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

‘Bitcoin Sign Guy’ Joins CEI

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‘Bitcoin Sign Guy’ Joins CEI

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 07/18/2017

Bitcoin Sign Guy rankled Congress and delighted the cryptocurrency community last week.

Banking and Finance

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Don’t Follow the Money

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 07/03/2017

The July/August issue of Foreign Affairs has an excellent article by Professor Peter Neumann of King’s College London entitled: “Don’t Follow the Money: The Problem with…

Banking and Finance

Arguments Against Cash Economy Bolster Government Power

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Arguments Against Cash Economy Bolster Government Power

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 06/13/2017

The way people spend money and time reveals what they truly value.

Banking and Finance

Technology and Process Failures at TSA

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Technology and Process Failures at TSA

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 04/28/2017

The Transportation Security Administration has a history of tripping over itself to rush out technologies that are ill-considered and invasive.

Aviation

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National Security Is No Argument against Regulatory Reform

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 04/04/2017

On the Lawfare blog, Professor Ganesh Sitaraman of Vanderbilt Law School and the Center for American Progress offers an argument about regulatory reform that…

Regulatory Reform

New York’s “BitLicense” on Trial

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New York’s “BitLicense” on Trial

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 03/08/2017

A lawsuit again New York's “BitLicense” regulation is challenging the state's targeting of Bitcoin-based businesses.

Banking and Finance

States Should Resist Pressure to Implement REAL ID Act

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States Should Resist Pressure to Implement REAL ID Act

  • By: Jim Harper
  • 02/09/2017

National requirements for state ID cards are an abuse of the constitutional division of power between the states and the federal government.

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