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E-15 May Do More Food Price Harm than Gas Price Good

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E-15 May Do More Food Price Harm than Gas Price Good

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/12/2022

The Biden administration Environmental Protection Agency has announced an emergency waiver allowing gasoline blends containing up to 15 percent ethanol in a bid to…

Energy and Environment

Addressing Forever Crises

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Addressing Forever Crises

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/12/2022

It does not suffice for this administration to attribute record 8.5 percent inflation to “Putin’s price hike.” We have endured not just…

Deregulation

Inflation Rises to 8.5 Percent: Straining for Optimism

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Inflation Rises to 8.5 Percent: Straining for Optimism

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/12/2022

High inflation will likely be with us for a while, which means I’ll be writing a lot of posts like this. So, for the sake…

Monetary Policy

Rep. Van Duyne Confronts Excesses of Climate Policy at SEC

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Rep. Van Duyne Confronts Excesses of Climate Policy at SEC

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 04/11/2022

Last week Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) and a dozen co-sponsors introduced the Stopping Excessive Climate Reporting Act (H.R.7355) to prevent the Securities and Exchange…

Business and Government

Algae and High Gasoline Prices

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Algae and High Gasoline Prices

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/11/2022

If you have managed to avoid record-high gasoline prices by using algae fuel instead, you have former President Barack Obama to thank. If not, you…

Energy and Environment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/11/2022

The Senate confirmed Ketanji Jackson Brown as the newest Supreme Court Justice. A rabid fox bit nine people on Capitol Hill, this time literally…

Deregulation

Time for a Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on the Paris Agreement

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Time for a Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on the Paris Agreement

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/08/2022

National Journal yesterday confirmed what has become increasingly obvious since October 2021: “Biden’s Climate Goals Are in Peril.” The Democrat-controlled Congress has failed…

Energy and Environment

Bipartisan Policy Center Highlights Concerns with SEC Climate Disclosure Rule

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Bipartisan Policy Center Highlights Concerns with SEC Climate Disclosure Rule

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 04/08/2022

This week the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) hosted an event titled “Corporations and Climate: Potential Impacts of the SEC’s Proposed New Rule” on an…

Business and Government

An Emergency Law to Extinguish Regulatory Dark Matter

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An Emergency Law to Extinguish Regulatory Dark Matter

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/07/2022

Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never. …. Nothing will ever return to the “broken”…

Deregulation

NLRB General Counsel Targets Mandatory Attendance Meetings

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NLRB General Counsel Targets Mandatory Attendance Meetings

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/07/2022

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is taking aim at “captive audience meetings” held by employers, arguing that it is unfair…

Labor and Employment

“Right to Repair” Bill Is a Move in the Wrong Direction

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“Right to Repair” Bill Is a Move in the Wrong Direction

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 04/07/2022

The Fair Repair Act (S. 3830), introduced in the Senate last month, would require electronic manufactures like Apple and Samsung to make certain information…

Tech and Telecom

Rep. Bill Johnson Asks Oil CEOs to Stop Apologizing and Be Proud of Producing Energy

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Rep. Bill Johnson Asks Oil CEOs to Stop Apologizing and Be Proud of Producing Energy

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 04/07/2022

The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a long hearing yesterday to harangue oil company CEOs for price gouging as the cause of high…

Energy and Environment

Recycle Your Work 2: Content Is All Around You

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Recycle Your Work 2: Content Is All Around You

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 04/06/2022

Earlier this week I wrote a blog post about recycling work—using the effort from one project to produce more output in another format. I…

Capitalism

Elon Musk’s Purchase of Twitter Stock Is an Important Reminder of How Capitalism Works

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Elon Musk’s Purchase of Twitter Stock Is an Important Reminder of How Capitalism Works

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 04/05/2022

The tech world was shaken by the recent news that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, had bought up nearly one of every 10…

Antitrust

Affordable Care Act Anniversary Gives Little Reason to Celebrate

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Affordable Care Act Anniversary Gives Little Reason to Celebrate

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 04/05/2022

President Obama is joining President Biden at the White House to commemorate the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. But there is…

Healthcare

Getting Things Undone: Lessons from the Obliteration of Trump’s One-In, Two-Out Campaign

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Getting Things Undone: Lessons from the Obliteration of Trump’s One-In, Two-Out Campaign

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/05/2022

‘Tis the season. As midterms approach, we’re seeing “agendas” emerge from aspirational conservatives nominally opposed to Biden’s transformation of the United States. These anti-progressive inventories…

Deregulation

FTC Merger Guidelines Update

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FTC Merger Guidelines Update

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/05/2022

All proposed corporate mergers above a certain size have to go through review by antitrust regulators. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Justice Department…

Antitrust

Kigali Amendment Would Raise Air Conditioning Costs and Undercut American Competitiveness

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Kigali Amendment Would Raise Air Conditioning Costs and Undercut American Competitiveness

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/05/2022

Air conditioning season will soon be here, and it may prove to be the most expensive one in years thanks to a new federal program…

Energy and Environment

CEI Joins Coalition Urging FDA Not to Ban Synthetic Nicotine

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CEI Joins Coalition Urging FDA Not to Ban Synthetic Nicotine

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 04/05/2022

This week CEI joined a coalition of groups urging Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf not to prohibit synthetic nicotine (read the…

Consumer Freedom

Celebrate Decade of JOBS Act as Deregulatory Success

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Celebrate Decade of JOBS Act as Deregulatory Success

  • By: John Berlau
  • 04/05/2022

10 years ago, a GOP-controlled House, a Democrat-controlled Senate, and a Democratic president came together to lighten the regulatory burden on America’s upstart job creators.

Financial Regulation

Amazon Union Wins in Staten Island with Backing of 32 Percent of Workers

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Amazon Union Wins in Staten Island with Backing of 32 Percent of Workers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/04/2022

Key to understanding the union organizing win at Amazon’s Staten Island facility is that there were enough workers who wanted a union, or at…

Labor and Employment

D.C. Policy Strategy: Recycle Your Work for Maximum Impact

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D.C. Policy Strategy: Recycle Your Work for Maximum Impact

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 04/04/2022

Last week I gave an informal presentation to a group of my colleagues about recycling—not the plastic and cardboard variety, but the work product kind.

Capitalism

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • 04/04/2022

The tide is slowly turning in Ukraine, though Europe’s biggest war since World War II continued. Meanwhile, conservative culture warriors declared “moral war against…

Deregulation

Pay College Athletes

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Pay College Athletes

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/01/2022

No March Madness tournament would be complete without at least one school being caught paying its players in violation of NCAA rules. This year, the…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Deregulation is Key to Building a Broad-Based Economy

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Deregulation is Key to Building a Broad-Based Economy

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/31/2022

Critics of free market economic policy often point to declines in manufacturing employment or, worse, to the “hollowing-out” of the American middle class as evidence…

Capitalism

Lassman Tells Insider President Biden’s So-Called Billionaire’s Tax Is Unconstitutional

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Lassman Tells Insider President Biden’s So-Called Billionaire’s Tax Is Unconstitutional

  • By: Travis Burk
  • 03/31/2022

In a recent interview with Insider, CEI President Kent Lassman outlined why the so-called Billionaire’s Minimum Income Tax included in President Biden’s 2022 White…

Legal

Weil, That Was a Close One!

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Weil, That Was a Close One!

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/31/2022

David Weil, the Biden administration’s pick to be the administrator of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division, was rejected by…

Labor and Employment

Invoking Defense Production Act Won’t Unleash Domestic Mining

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Invoking Defense Production Act Won’t Unleash Domestic Mining

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/31/2022

President Biden is reportedly going to invoke the Defense Production Act for the minerals needed to make electric vehicle (EV) batteries. But it’s all…

Energy and Environment

Testimony on Forfeiture Reform before the Tennessee General Assembly

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Testimony on Forfeiture Reform before the Tennessee General Assembly

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 03/30/2022

Earlier today, I testified before the Tennessee General Assembly on HB 2525, a measure that would reform the Volunteer State’s system of asset forfeiture.

Legal

“Letter” Rip: The Justice Department Would Like More Power, Please

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“Letter” Rip: The Justice Department Would Like More Power, Please

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/30/2022

In its first backing of specific antirust legislation, the Justice Department (DOJ) sent a letter in support of the American Innovation and Choice…

Tech and Telecom

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