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CEI Weekly
December 23, 2011
>> Featured Story
As we at CEI prepare for the holidays, we’ve noticed that most of our favorite Christmas movies make capitalists out to be villains. So we put together this short video as a reminder of the Yuletide benefits of the market. Watch above, or at this link.
>> Shaping the Debate
The FDA vs. Commercial Speech
Greg Conko and Henry I. Miller’s article in Reason Magazine
Create Wealth, Not Jobs
Iain Murray and David Bier’s op-ed in The Washington Times
Behind the UAW’s Aw Shucks Smile
Vincent Vernuccio’s op-ed in The American Spectator
Grinches and Scrooges Dislike Facebook This Christmas
Wayne Crews’ column on Forbes
Obama’s Big Labor Wins a Big One
Ivan Osorio and Russ Brown’s op-ed in The American Spectator
Dead People Get Lots of Other Entitlement Benefits
Hans Bader’s letter to the editor in The Washington Examiner
Government Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Itself
Wayne Crews’ citation on FoxBusiness.com
Texts, Lies, and Distracted Driving
Marc Scribner’s citation on The Volokh Conspiracy
AT&T Admits Defeat on T-Mobile Takeover
Ryan Radia’s citation on Ars Technica
The Death of Kim Jong Il, the Unraveling of North Korea and More
Iain Murray and David Bier’s citation in The Washington Post Blogs
>> Best of the Blogs
2011 Brought Lots of Good News for Salt Lovers
By Greg Conko
Butter-nomics: Protectionism and Food Shortages
By Daniel Rivera
Another Year of Incandescence
By Brian McGraw
This Week in the Congress
By Myron Ebell
>> CEI Podcast
December 23, 2011: The Keystone XL Pipeline
Politicians usually love infrastructure projects. But politics has delayed the privately owned Keystone XL pipeline’s construction for three years now. Research Associate David Bier explains the reasons behind the delay, and points out that the pipeline’s real benefit isn’t the jobs it would create; it’s the wealth and value it would create.