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New CEI Video Series Looks at the Effects of Green New Deal Policies

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New CEI Video Series Looks at the Effects of Green New Deal Policies

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 12/11/2020

In 2019, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezand Massachusetts Senator and fellow progressive Ed Markey introduced the Green New Deal, a Back-to-the-Dark-Ages manifesto that seeks to…

Energy and Environment

New York Times Trashes EPA’s Particulate Matter Rule

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New York Times Trashes EPA’s Particulate Matter Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/11/2020

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday, December 7, finalized its national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) rule for particulate matter (PM). Controversy swirls…

Energy and Environment

Some Frequently Asked Questions about Socialism

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Some Frequently Asked Questions about Socialism

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 12/10/2020

During my virtual “tour” for the release of my book, The Socialist Temptation, certain questions came up regularly. I have already set out my…

Capitalism

The Relevant Market Fallacy and Facebook’s Antitrust Cases

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The Relevant Market Fallacy and Facebook’s Antitrust Cases

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/10/2020

Facebook was hit by two separate antitrust complaints this week. One is from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the other is from a…

Antitrust

Facebook Antitrust Suits Disregard Consumer Welfare

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Facebook Antitrust Suits Disregard Consumer Welfare

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 12/09/2020

Today the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 48 state attorneys general announced antitrust suits against Facebook, asserting the social media company’s acquisitions of…

Tech and Telecom

COVID-19 Vaccine Shows that the World Needs More Refrigeration and Less Anti-Refrigeration Climate Policy

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COVID-19 Vaccine Shows that the World Needs More Refrigeration and Less Anti-Refrigeration Climate Policy

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 12/08/2020

Refrigeration has had a substantial positive impact on public health in the U.S. and other developed nations where it is in widespread use. Increased market…

Energy and Environment

A Big-Picture View of the Antitrust Debate

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A Big-Picture View of the Antitrust Debate

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/07/2020

In this month’s issue of Reason magazine, I have a feature-length article on the bipartisan push to revive antitrust enforcement. If you don’t have…

Antitrust

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/07/2020

The midnight regulatory rush is on, with one of the year’s highest weekly page counts last week. The 2020 Federal Register is on pace for…

Deregulation

Hyping the Whirlwind

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Hyping the Whirlwind

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 12/04/2020

A new Nature paper on hurricane decay rates that was published on November 11 by Lin Li and Pinaki Chakroborty (hereafter, LC20) is receiving a…

Energy and Environment

Labor Department Job Report Shows Improvement but Challenges Ahead

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Labor Department Job Report Shows Improvement but Challenges Ahead

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/04/2020

The Labor Department’s Friday report that 245,000 jobs were added in November confirms that, while an economic recovery is still underway, its momentum is…

Labor and Employment

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Walter Williams, 1936-2020

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/03/2020

Walter Williams passed away this week at age 84. He was the rare economist to succeed as both an academic and a popular communicator.

Capitalism

America Really Is Revolutionary

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America Really Is Revolutionary

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/02/2020

Several scholars I respect, including Daniel Hannan in his 2013 book Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World, have argued that…

Capitalism

Biden Team Expected to Take Hatchet to Pension Protection Rule

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Biden Team Expected to Take Hatchet to Pension Protection Rule

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/01/2020

The Department of Labor, under the leadership of Secretary Eugene Scalia, implemented an important (though widely misunderstood) rule this year, regarding how federally regulated pension…

Capitalism

Biden’s OMB Pick, Neera Tanden, Once Warned Democrats against a $15 Minimum Wage

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Biden’s OMB Pick, Neera Tanden, Once Warned Democrats against a $15 Minimum Wage

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/30/2020

Joe Biden’s choice of Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress, to be the next director of the Office of Management and…

Labor and Employment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/30/2020

Thanksgiving was rather different than most years, and not in a good way. Hopefully, with viable vaccines on the way, it will be back to…

Deregulation

A Cold Winter for Santa in Sunland, California

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A Cold Winter for Santa in Sunland, California

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/25/2020

Department store Santa Claus Patrick Turnbull has hoisted children onto his lap and listened to their Christmas wishes for two decades in Sunland, California, but…

Labor and Employment

Retro Review: The Communist Manifesto (1848)

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Retro Review: The Communist Manifesto (1848)

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 11/25/2020

The manifesto of the Communist party, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1847 and first published the next year, has a legendary pair…

Capitalism

John Kerry, a Tall Climate Envoy

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John Kerry, a Tall Climate Envoy

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 11/25/2020

President-elect Joe Biden announced on Monday that he would appoint John Kerry as his administration’s “special presidential climate envoy.” The title is misleading: Kerry will…

Energy and Environment

Is General Motors’ Shift to More Electric Vehicles Good for the Environment?

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Is General Motors’ Shift to More Electric Vehicles Good for the Environment?

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/24/2020

General Motors recently announced a major push toward electric vehicles (EVs), pledging $27 billion in investment by 2025 and promising to have 30 EV…

Energy and Environment

Consumers Pay the Price for Mass Torts Driven By Junk Science

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Consumers Pay the Price for Mass Torts Driven By Junk Science

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/23/2020

The Center for Truth in Science has released an excellent report on mass torts and how unscrupulous lawyers use them to extort large…

Energy and Environment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/23/2020

Thanksgiving will be a little different this year. With the recent news about promising COVID-19 vaccines, next year’s turkey celebration should be closer to normal.

Deregulation

Millennials, Gen Z Optimistic about Hard Work Leading to Prosperity

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Millennials, Gen Z Optimistic about Hard Work Leading to Prosperity

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 11/20/2020

The Walton Family Foundation released an interesting survey recently that found that Generation Z (ages 13–23) and Millennial (ages 24–39) Americans are more optimistic…

Capitalism

Biden to Focus on Public Sector Unions First?

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Biden to Focus on Public Sector Unions First?

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/20/2020

All indications are that the Biden administration will be the most pro-labor one since at least Harry Truman’s. Biden has promised to defer to labor…

Labor and Employment

Judge Rules in Favor of Retroactive Unapportioned Tax

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Judge Rules in Favor of Retroactive Unapportioned Tax

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 11/20/2020

In 2006, Charles and Kathleen Moore invested in a business aimed at providing affordable equipment to small-scale Indian farmers. No dividends have been returned to…

Legal

Montreal Protocol Continues Process of Morphing Into A Climate Treaty

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Montreal Protocol Continues Process of Morphing Into A Climate Treaty

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/20/2020

The 32nd Meeting of the Parties to the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) will be held from…

Climate

Can New York’s Hotel Industry Survive the Latest Union Victory?

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Can New York’s Hotel Industry Survive the Latest Union Victory?

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/20/2020

Numerous New York City hotel owners are struggling to stay alive and their workers’ union isn’t exactly making it easy for them. In fact, there…

Labor and Employment

Americans have Grown more Centrist, So Should the Parties

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Americans have Grown more Centrist, So Should the Parties

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 11/19/2020

This last election was not normal. Record voter turnout, different voting procedures, and polarizing candidates makes comparing this cycle to any other difficult. But looking…

Consumer Freedom

On Online Speech, Sasse Stands Alone

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On Online Speech, Sasse Stands Alone

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 11/18/2020

There was an almost total lack of skepticism of expanding government regulation of online content moderation at yesterday’s Senate hearing with the CEOs of…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Carbon Pricing Would Make Electricity Markets Less Efficient

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Carbon Pricing Would Make Electricity Markets Less Efficient

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/18/2020

On Monday (November 16, 2020), I submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on its proposed policy statement encouraging regional trading…

Energy and Environment

COVID-19 Vaccine Development Is Testament to the Market’s Ability to Develop Life-Saving New Products

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COVID-19 Vaccine Development Is Testament to the Market’s Ability to Develop Life-Saving New Products

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 11/17/2020

The announcement by drug maker Moderna that preliminary data from its still ongoing trial shows its COVID-19 vaccine is 95 percent effective is extremely encouraging.

Healthcare

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