The Open Market Blog

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/01/2018

The 25th anniversary of CEI’s flagship study on federal regulation, “10,000 Commandments”, has been getting a lot of attention recently. We’re always happy when…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/01/2018

It’s May Day, and in the pages of the New York Times appears a paean to the halcyon days of the 1930s, urging a…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/30/2018

Following in George W. Bush’s footsteps, President Trump increased tariffs on foreign-made steel and aluminum by 25 percent in March. But he exempted U.S. allies…

Trade and International

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 04/30/2018

It is well known that Americans do not adequately save for retirement. As such, it is crucial that every dollar American workers put away…

Private Unions

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/30/2018

The number of new final regulations passed the 1,000 mark last week, with new rules ranging from sending mail to human reliability programs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/27/2018

While the administration has made great progress on issues like regulatory reform and energy policy, the current White House has also embraced policies that—and…

Trade and International

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/27/2018

The Competitive Enterprise Institute recently released the 25th anniversary edition of Wayne Crews’ widely-cited study “10,000 Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State.”…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 04/26/2018

Labor-management relation laws in the United States are in need of an update. Reform is long overdue, with the last major update to statutes governing…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/25/2018

Since any number with that many zeroes and commas in it is difficult for the human mind to process, let’s put it in a more…

Regulatory Reform

• By: John Berlau
• 04/25/2018

After being attacked repeatedly for supposedly being soft on Wall Street and the “big banks,” Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney was part…

Banking and Finance

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 04/24/2018

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” could be the motto of one of the key research programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/23/2018

The big news this week was the release of the 2018 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments. Agencies continued to provide fodder for next years edition…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

One of the lessons learned from this year’s “10,000 Commandments” study is that Congress needs to be more involved in the regulatory process. It needs…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/20/2018

We’ve been publishing and promoting the study for many years, and our strategies and methods have changed as the years have gone by. When we…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

Wayne Crews has ably documented the regulatory state for twenty-five years and running. But what will the next twenty-five years of “10,000 Commandments” look like?…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/20/2018

Trump economic advisor and Death by China author Peter Navarro’s recent column in The Wall Street Journal, “China’s Faux Comparative Advantage,” is a…

Trade and International

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/19/2018

Federal regulation cost Americans $1.9 trillion in 2017, or nearly $15,000 per U.S. household—more than Americans spend on any category in their family budget except…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Khurana
• 04/16/2018

There is a lot of panic about the implications of artificial intelligence technologies for the future of work. Some scholars, such as Nobel laureate Joseph…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/16/2018

The highlights from this week’s round of 36 proposed regulations and 72 final regulations range from licensing government inventions to the Department of Redundancy Department’s…

Regulatory Reform