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New Whole-of-Government Initiative on Junk Fees Comes with Unintended Consequences

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New Whole-of-Government Initiative on Junk Fees Comes with Unintended Consequences

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/26/2022

Today the Biden administration announced a new whole-of-government initiative on junk fees from airlines and other industries. The news comes on the same day…

Consumer Choice

Talking Points on Biden’s “Whole-of-Government” Regulatory Escalations

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Talking Points on Biden’s “Whole-of-Government” Regulatory Escalations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/26/2022

Among much else, the 2022 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments presents a $2 trillion undercount of regulatory costs and showcases the march of rulemaking…

Deregulation

Ten Thousand Commandments 2022 Released

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Ten Thousand Commandments 2022 Released

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
  • 10/26/2022

The 2022 edition of Wayne Crews’s Ten Thousand Commandments report is out now. Now in its 28th year, it has its usual panoply of…

Deregulation

Workers Should Be Able to Hear from Both Sides Before Union Votes

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Workers Should Be Able to Hear from Both Sides Before Union Votes

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/24/2022

Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Albany, New York, opposed forming a union by a nearly two-to-one margin last week. It was the…

Labor and Employment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/24/2022

Just two more weeks until the relentless barrage of misleading election ads goes away. The Energy Information Administration warned that heating bills could get…

Deregulation

Policy and Politics Are Different Things

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Policy and Politics Are Different Things

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/20/2022

What is more important this election: The culture wars or policy issues like inflation? In an op-ed as part of a point-counterpoint series from…

Capitalism

Not a Policy Paper, Just a Thought: Anti-Merger Mania

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Not a Policy Paper, Just a Thought: Anti-Merger Mania

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/20/2022

What is the correct number of corporate mergers that should be allowed? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) thinks it knows the answer: less. It has…

Antitrust

Seizing the Ecomodernist Moment

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Seizing the Ecomodernist Moment

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 10/19/2022

I recently had the good fortune to attend Ecomodernism 2022, a conference hosted in northern Virginia by the Breakthrough Institute. The theme was “Deregulating…

Capitalism

One Year on, FDA Sodium Guidance Still Wanting

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One Year on, FDA Sodium Guidance Still Wanting

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 10/17/2022

It is the one year anniversary of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Guidance for Industry setting out goals to reduce sodium content in…

Healthcare

Jason Feifer on Managing Change in Life and Society

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Jason Feifer on Managing Change in Life and Society

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 10/14/2022

I recently wrote a review of Build for Tomorrow, the new book from Entrepreneur magazine editor-in-chief Jason Feifer. The book is a…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/14/2022

Inflation took a turn for the worse and the January 6 Committee voted to subpoena former President Trump over his role in the…

Deregulation

A Tough Winter Ahead for Heating Bills, According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration

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A Tough Winter Ahead for Heating Bills, According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/13/2022

High gasoline prices will soon have an equally unpleasant partner in the form of high energy bills this winter, according to the U.S. Energy Information…

Energy and Environment

CPI Rises 0.4 Percent in September, 8.2 Percent over Past Year

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CPI Rises 0.4 Percent in September, 8.2 Percent over Past Year

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/13/2022

September’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation numbers came out this morning, and they aren’t pretty. The month-to-month increase was 0.4 percent, after rising just…

Monetary Policy

Unmeasured Costs of Regulation are Accelerating under Biden

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Unmeasured Costs of Regulation are Accelerating under Biden

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/12/2022

During a recent Senate hearing on the nomination to head the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)—the…

Deregulation

Excerpts from Austin Keynote: How CBDCs Could Be the New Operation Choke Point

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Excerpts from Austin Keynote: How CBDCs Could Be the New Operation Choke Point

  • By: John Berlau
  • 10/12/2022

This week, I attended the exciting INFiN MoneyTrends conference in Austin, where I gave the Regulatory Keynote address on Monday. The conference is a…

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/11/2022

Aaron Judge finished the baseball season with 62 home runs, setting a new American League season record. President Biden pardoned the sentences of all…

Deregulation

“Abracadabra”: European Union Regulators Make Innovation Disappear

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“Abracadabra”: European Union Regulators Make Innovation Disappear

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 10/07/2022

Members of the European Parliament are eagerly awaiting their Hogwarts acceptance letters to attend the famous school of wizardry. In their view, they have…

Tech and Telecom

Questions the 118th Congress Should Ask OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

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Questions the 118th Congress Should Ask OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/06/2022

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee recently held a hearing on the nomination of Richard L. Revesz to be Administrator of the…

Deregulation

Illinois Ballot Measure to Allow Unions To “Keep Our Foot on the Gas”

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Illinois Ballot Measure to Allow Unions To “Keep Our Foot on the Gas”

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/06/2022

Here’s a riddle: Why would unions in Illinois promote a ballot measure to establish a right to collective bargaining when that state is…

Labor and Employment

A One-Pager on an “Abuse-of-Crisis Prevention Act”

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A One-Pager on an “Abuse-of-Crisis Prevention Act”

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/06/2022

In recent months CEI has presented the case for a “Abuse of Crisis Prevention Act” to counter and prevent the political predation that continues to…

Deregulation

Tackling Unmeasured Government Growth Must be Prioritized in the 118th Congress

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Tackling Unmeasured Government Growth Must be Prioritized in the 118th Congress

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/04/2022

Fred L. Smith Jr., the founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, refers to the regulatory state as the least disciplined part of the federal enterprise.

Deregulation

CEI Leads Coalition Comment Critical of DOE’s Proposed Furnace Regulation

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CEI Leads Coalition Comment Critical of DOE’s Proposed Furnace Regulation

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/04/2022

Several recent Department of Energy (DOE) efficiency standards for appliances have been a bad deal for consumers, but the latest proposed standard for residential natural…

Energy and Environment

Gonzales v. Google: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Algorithms

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Gonzales v. Google: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Algorithms

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 10/03/2022

Today the Supreme Court agreed to hear Gonzales v. Google, LLC, a case that evaluates how broadly the liability protection is for platforms in…

Tech and Telecom

Senate Bill Challenges China’s Status as a Developing Nation in New Treaty

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Senate Bill Challenges China’s Status as a Developing Nation in New Treaty

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/03/2022

Most United Nations environmental treaties are a bad deal for the United States, and some are made even worse because they give China a competitive…

Energy and Environment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/03/2022

Hurricanes Ian and Fiona hit Florida, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, leading to a temporary exemption to the 1920 Jones Act shipping law…

Troubling Inflation News: Core PCE Increases 0.6 Percent

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Troubling Inflation News: Core PCE Increases 0.6 Percent

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/30/2022

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation indicator, Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), was updated this morning with August’s numbers. PCE measures inflation more accurately than the…

Monetary Policy

Are Nord Stream Methane Leaks “Catastrophic for Climate”?

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Are Nord Stream Methane Leaks “Catastrophic for Climate”?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/30/2022

Despite acknowledging that the Nord Stream pipelines were likely bombed by saboteurs, the Associated Press yesterday focused on the ruptures as a climate threat…

Energy and Environment

The Problems with the White House Competition Council

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The Problems with the White House Competition Council

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/28/2022

Sometimes seemingly little things slip under the radar that have big implications. One of those this week was the third meeting of President Biden’s…

Deregulation

SEC Gives Crowdfunders Inflation Relief, Must Do More

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SEC Gives Crowdfunders Inflation Relief, Must Do More

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 09/27/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adjusted for inflation some limits for companies (issuers) raising capital through Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF). The adjustment raises the…

Financial Regulation

The Jones Act vs. Puerto Rico, Again

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The Jones Act vs. Puerto Rico, Again

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/27/2022

Puerto Rico is almost entirely without power after Hurricane Fiona. Right now, there is a ship just offshore, ready to help. It has…

Trade and International

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