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Missouri Employers Must Jazz Up wages to Avoid St. Louis Blues

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Missouri Employers Must Jazz Up wages to Avoid St. Louis Blues

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/29/2021

Employers are struggling to fill jobs in Missouri and that’s a good thing. It means wages and benefits in the state will rise and workers…

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 06/28/2021

Negotiators reached a deal on a bipartisan infrastructure bill, at least for now. There were also marathon committee markup sessions for five antitrust bills. Meanwhile,…

Deregulation

China Ratifies Kigali Amendment, At America’s Expense

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China Ratifies Kigali Amendment, At America’s Expense

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 06/24/2021

On June 17, China ratified the Kigali Amendment, the United Nations treaty provision that restricts future production of a widely used class of refrigerants…

Energy and Environment

How Private Property Can Protect Rivers From Pollution

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How Private Property Can Protect Rivers From Pollution

  • By: Peter Gattuso
  • 06/23/2021

Many prominent environmental activists, such as teen media star Greta Thunberg and former Vice President Al Gore, raise various environmental concerns from climate change…

Energy and Environment

Justices Affirm that Collective Bargaining Rights Shouldn’t Trump other Rights

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Justices Affirm that Collective Bargaining Rights Shouldn’t Trump other Rights

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/23/2021

The Supreme Court was correct in its 6-3 ruling today in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid that a California regulation granting union organizers access…

Labor and Employment

New CEI Video: Section 230, Explained

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New CEI Video: Section 230, Explained

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 06/23/2021

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a new policy video today, aiming to clarify the debate around Section 230 and to debunk some of…

Tech and Telecom

ABA Antitrust Event with Jessica Melugin

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ABA Antitrust Event with Jessica Melugin

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/22/2021

On Monday, June 28, at 1 pm EDT, I’ll be joining the American Bar Association for an antitrust event entitled, “Big Tech in the Cross-Hairs:…

Tech and Telecom

CEI Files Comments on Biden Administration Social Cost of Carbon Estimates

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CEI Files Comments on Biden Administration Social Cost of Carbon Estimates

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/21/2021

CEI today is filing comments on the Biden administration Interagency Working Group’s (IWG) Interim Technical Support Document on the social cost of greenhouse gases.

Energy and Environment

Supreme Court Requires Involvement of Principal Officers Before Final Decisions

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Supreme Court Requires Involvement of Principal Officers Before Final Decisions

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 06/21/2021

Today, the Supreme Court issued a decision in United States v. Arthrex that has massive implications for the limits on the administrative state. It…

Legal

The Way to Maximize Worker Freedom: Combine Right to Work and Micro-Unions

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The Way to Maximize Worker Freedom: Combine Right to Work and Micro-Unions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/21/2021

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a pro-union bill currently awaiting action in the Senate, includes a lot ideas to coerce individual…

Labor and Employment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 06/21/2021

Members of Congress introduced five antitrust bills last week. Antitrust activist Lina Khan was confirmed to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and…

Deregulation

Why Increase the Cost and Scope of Antitrust?

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Why Increase the Cost and Scope of Antitrust?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/17/2021

Widely regarded as the least controversial of the five antitrust bills introduced in the House last week, the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act would…

Antitrust

A Better Approach to Tariff Diplomacy

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A Better Approach to Tariff Diplomacy

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 06/17/2021

In diplomacy, carrots tend to be more effective than sticks. Yet, two consecutive administrations have used tariff threats to try to achieve their objectives. Former…

Trade and International

Biden Administration to Impose Wave of Costly Regulations on Home Appliances

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Biden Administration to Impose Wave of Costly Regulations on Home Appliances

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 06/17/2021

The spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda) has been released. It’s the roadmap of federal regulatory priorities, and being…

Energy and Environment

Platform Competition and Opportunity Act Is An Innovation Killer That Won’t Serve Consumers

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Platform Competition and Opportunity Act Is An Innovation Killer That Won’t Serve Consumers

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/16/2021

One of five antitrust bills introduced last week, The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act, would prohibit leading tech platforms from acquiring companies that are…

Antitrust

Digital Yuan Threatens Global Freedom

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Digital Yuan Threatens Global Freedom

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 06/16/2021

 “[Bitcoin] is an escape hatch from tyranny and nothing less than freedom money.” –  Alex Gladstein, Human Rights Foundation The world is recognizing…

Capitalism

ACCESS Bill Would Increase Consumer Privacy Risks and Stifle Innovation

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ACCESS Bill Would Increase Consumer Privacy Risks and Stifle Innovation

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/16/2021

One of five antitrust bills introduced last week, the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching Act (they did a lot of heavy…

Innovation

Reviewing SEC Climate Disclosure Comments

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Reviewing SEC Climate Disclosure Comments

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/16/2021

Earlier this week, I wrote a short summary of the comments from myself and my colleague Marlo Lewis to the Securities and…

Capitalism

The PRO Act Would Erode Individual Workers’ Rights

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The PRO Act Would Erode Individual Workers’ Rights

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/16/2021

Suppose a piece of legislation was presented as an expansion of rights, when in fact it narrowed those rights. That ought to stir up some…

Labor and Employment

What Do We Want from Our Platforms?

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What Do We Want from Our Platforms?

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 06/16/2021

Two recently introduced House bills seek to restructure antitrust law, supposedly to tackle purported abuses by “big tech” firms. They aim to change how the…

Antitrust

Exposed: Bloomberg’s Anti-Tobacco Meddling in Developing Countries

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Exposed: Bloomberg’s Anti-Tobacco Meddling in Developing Countries

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 06/15/2021

Back in February I wrote a piece for Inside Sources titled “Bloomberg’s Philanthro-Colonialism: A Threat to Global Health and Science,” criticizing the behavior of…

Health and Safety

PRO-SPEECH Act Seeks to Reintroduce Problem Solved 25 Years Ago

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PRO-SPEECH Act Seeks to Reintroduce Problem Solved 25 Years Ago

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/15/2021

For those generally skeptical of Congress’ ability to make good policy, the existence of Section 230 in the 1996 Communications Decency Act evokes a…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Boeing-Airbus Dispute Remains Unsolved: Tariffs Gone, Subsidies Stay

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Boeing-Airbus Dispute Remains Unsolved: Tariffs Gone, Subsidies Stay

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 06/15/2021

The European Union and the United States eagerly announced today that they had resolved their 17-year dispute over aerospace subsidies. They exaggerate their claims.

Subsidies and Bailouts

CEI Submits Comments to the SEC on Climate Risk Disclosure, Part 2

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CEI Submits Comments to the SEC on Climate Risk Disclosure, Part 2

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/15/2021

On Friday, June 11, CEI, joined by nine other free market organizations, submitted two comment letters in response to Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commissioner Allison…

Energy and Environment

CEI Submits Comments on Biden Administration Proposal to Repeal Trump Auto Rule Enforcing Preemption of California Motor Vehicle CO2 Regulations

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CEI Submits Comments on Biden Administration Proposal to Repeal Trump Auto Rule Enforcing Preemption of California Motor Vehicle CO2 Regulations

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/14/2021

On Friday, June 11, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), joined by eight other free market organizations, submitted comments on the National Highway Traffic Safety…

Climate

It’s up to Drug Reformers to Stop the War on Nicotine

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It’s up to Drug Reformers to Stop the War on Nicotine

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 06/14/2021

In recent years, a growing number of Americans have been waking up to the failure of the War on Drugs. Officially initiated by President…

Health and Safety

Climate Disclosure Comments to the SEC

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Climate Disclosure Comments to the SEC

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/14/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Allison Herren Lee solicited comments on climate change from the public back on March 15, and the deadline for…

Business and Government

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young, Sean Higgins
  • 06/14/2021

The economic recovery continues, but Congress is still intent on passing unneeded stimulus and infrastructure spending. Inflation is also up, and five antitrust bills are…

Regulatory Reform

Biden’s Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation, by the Numbers

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Biden’s Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation, by the Numbers

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/11/2021

The Biden administration released the Spring 2021 edition of the twice-yearly Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions today. The purpose…

Deregulation

Lessons from the Demise of ANWR and Keystone XL

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Lessons from the Demise of ANWR and Keystone XL

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 06/11/2021

Two iconic North American oil projects, federal leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the Keystone XL pipeline carrying Canadian crude to U.S.

Climate

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