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Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists: No Illusions about Germany’s “Energy Turnaround”

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/24/2016

In a previous post I poked fun at the “Doomsday Clock” of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. For 60 years, the Bulletin has…

Climate

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RealClear Radio Hour: On-Demand Internet Service & Medical Testing

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/23/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour, I’m joined by two founders delivering the latest in on-demand services. My first guest is Charles Barr, founder…

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Appeals Court: Students Qualify for FOIA Fee Waivers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/23/2016

Under the Freedom of Information Act, you can obtain government records, but usually you have to pay for them. But the law limits the fees…

Freedom of Information

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White House Supports Bill that Exempts Puerto Rico from New Overtime Regulation

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/23/2016

Progressives praised the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule as a way to fatten workers’ pockets and a means to strengthen the middle class. If…

Labor and Employment

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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/23/2016

As mentioned earlier, something of a regulatory midnight rush is happening right now. The Federal Register topped 2,000 pages for the third time in four weeks—a rare…

Regulatory Reform

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CFPB Moves to Cut Off Any Loans to People with Bad Credit

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 05/20/2016

According to the federal government, people may have to live on the streets, but at least they aren’t being “exploited” by companies who are willing…

Banking and Finance

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Muggles for Free Speech

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 05/19/2016

J. K. Rowling made international headlines this week by defending free speech in an address to the PEN Literary Gala in New York. She…

CEI Litigation

Regulation: A 28 Percent Hidden Tax For The Family

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Regulation: A 28 Percent Hidden Tax For The Family

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/18/2016

When corporations pay taxes, you pay taxes. That is, while it’s popular to tax rich corporations, and even if they write the check to the…

Regulatory Reform

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How the Overtime Rule Hopes to Design Higher Salaries, But Can’t

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/18/2016

The Labor Department has just issued a new regulation for overtime pay for salaried employees. Under the new rule, all salaried workers earning less than…

Labor and Employment

New York Times Ad Attacks AGs’ Abuse of Power, Defends Free Speech

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New York Times Ad Attacks AGs’ Abuse of Power, Defends Free Speech

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 05/18/2016

Today, CEI sponsored a full-page advertisement in The New York Times highlighting abusive efforts by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney…

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Deadline for Major New Regulations This Week?

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/17/2016

An early midnight rush of controversial new regulations might be on the way over the next week or so. Why now instead of the very…

Regulatory Reform

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Free Market Organizations Call on Congress to Block the DOL Overtime Rule

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/17/2016

Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute along with 16 other organizations sent a letter to Congress in support of the Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity…

Labor and Employment

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RICO 20 Ringleader’s Implausible Denial of Intent to Silence Skeptics

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/17/2016

After a recent victory in a FOIA lawsuit, Horner and CEI v. GMU, a Richmond court allowed the  Competitive Enterprise Institute to release records on…

CEI Litigation

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Air Traffic Control Reform Opponents Still Miss the Big Picture, Repeat Errors

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 05/16/2016

Air traffic control is in dire need of reform and modernization, and there is a great plan in the House FAA bill to do just…

Aviation

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Members-Only Unions Benefits Unions and Individual Workers

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/16/2016

There has been a surge in right-to-work laws over the past couple of years. Since 2012, four states (Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, and West Virginia) revoked…

Labor and Employment

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RealClear Radio Hour: Middle East & Panamanian Renaissance

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/16/2016

This week, I speak with two gentlemen advancing opportunity and prosperity in their respective corners of the world. Ricardo Karam, the Charlie Rose of Lebanon,…

Blog

Leave DFS Regulation to the States, But Don’t Kneecap Skilled Players

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 05/16/2016

Congress is abuzz with the issue of gambling. Last month, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) inserted language from his failed online gambling ban into the…

Consumer Freedom

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Crowdfunding Rules: Four Years Late and Millions Short

  • By: John Berlau
  • 05/16/2016

Today, Monday, May 16, more than four years and one month after Congress passed and President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act…

Banking and Finance

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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/16/2016

The Federal Register broke the 30,000-page barrier last week, with new regulations covering everything from baked beans to e-cigarettes. On to the data: Last week, 58 new…

Regulatory Reform

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Senator Vitter Introduces Bill To Enforce Law and Stop Funding of UNFCCC and Green Climate Fund

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/13/2016

Senator David Vitter (R-La.) on 12th May introduced a bill, S. 2930, to ensure that federal funding of the UN Framework Convention on…

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EPA Finalizes Methane Rule for New Gas and Oil Production

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/13/2016

The Environmental Protection Agency on 12th May released its final rule for regulating methane emissions from new oil and gas production.  The agency also…

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Virginia Court Releases RICO 20 Documents from George Mason University

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/13/2016

A judge for the Richmond Circuit Court of Virginia on 13th May lifted his protective order on documents from and to Professor Edward Maibach of…

Blog

Obama Administration Decree Usurps Control over Locker Rooms and Bathrooms

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/13/2016

Today, the Obama administration issued a “decree” not simply banning discrimination against transgender people, but also effectively mandating affirmative accommodation of them…

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Unpopular Online Gambling Ban Sneaked Into Spending Bill

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 05/12/2016

For more than two years a cadre of congressmen have worked, without any luck, to enact a bill that would create a de facto national…

Consumer Freedom

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Air Traffic Control in Urgent Need of Reform… If Only Critics Could See That

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 05/12/2016

CEI has for years called for air traffic control reforms now being considered in the House. It is critical for the future health of the…

Aviation

Small Businesses and Nonprofits Ill-Equipped to Handle DOL’s Overtime Rule

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Small Businesses and Nonprofits Ill-Equipped to Handle DOL’s Overtime Rule

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/11/2016

The Department of Labor's overtime rule may be published as early as next week. The rule's "one-size-fits-all" nature is set to harm small businesses the…

Labor and Employment

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Thomas Piketty’s False Argument for Expanding the Government

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/11/2016

Left-wing economist Thomas Piketty is treated like a “rock star” by many progressives for giving a veneer of legitimacy to the economic myths they…

Business and Government

Regulatory Cost Blowout: Burden Is Triple the Deficit, Greater than Personal and Corporate Income Taxes Combined

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Regulatory Cost Blowout: Burden Is Triple the Deficit, Greater than Personal and Corporate Income Taxes Combined

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/11/2016

The last time the federal government balanced the budget was between 1998 and 2001. But those were days when a $2 trillion federal budget…

Regulatory Reform

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Facebook’s Alleged “Curation” of Conservative News Isn’t the Government’s Business

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 05/11/2016

Facebook is under fire for allegedly manipulating its “Trending Topics” section to reduce the visibility of conservative topics and stories about the social media platform,…

Free Speech

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CEI’s Marc Scribner Discusses TSA Lawsuit on Cato Daily Podcast

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 05/11/2016

CEI Fellow Marc Scribner, one of the petitioners in CEI’s lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration’s final rule on airport body scanners, joined Cato’s…

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