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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/28/2022

Ukraine continues to hold out against Putin’s unprovoked invasion. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Jackson Brown had her Senate hearings. Meanwhile, agencies issued new regulations ranging…

Deregulation

Why Cannabis Banking Liberalization Would Indeed Increase U.S. Competitiveness

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Why Cannabis Banking Liberalization Would Indeed Increase U.S. Competitiveness

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/25/2022

As war continues in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, interest by policy makers and the media has spiked in competitiveness bills passed separately…

Financial Regulation

Climate Police Occupy Wall Street

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Climate Police Occupy Wall Street

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/24/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, March 21, released its proposed rule to require every “registrant” (i.e., publicly-traded company) to provide more…

Climate

Edward Scissorhands and Federal Regulatory Disclosure

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Edward Scissorhands and Federal Regulatory Disclosure

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/22/2022

Recently, President Joe Biden proclaimed before the Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting on March 21 that there’s “going to be  new world order”…

Deregulation

Climate Overreach at the SEC: What Comes Next

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Climate Overreach at the SEC: What Comes Next

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/21/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today voted to recommend new proposed rules by which public companies would be required to disclose additional information about…

Business and Government

Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit Dismissed

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Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit Dismissed

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/21/2022

Last year, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon over its third-party seller program. On Friday, a judge…

Antitrust

FDA’s Dysfunctional Regulation of E-cigs Created the Synthetic Nicotine Problem

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FDA’s Dysfunctional Regulation of E-cigs Created the Synthetic Nicotine Problem

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 03/21/2022

Winston Churchill once said that “If you destroy a free market you create a black market” and nowhere is the validity of that statement…

Consumer Freedom

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/21/2022

The March Madness college basketball tournament began, continuing this month’s theme. Ukrainians continued to fight valiantly against Putin’s army, while ordinary Russian people are showing…

Deregulation

New Anti-Merger Bill Not Indexed for Inflation

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New Anti-Merger Bill Not Indexed for Inflation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/18/2022

Yesterday, I wrote about four problems with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY)’s new antitrust bill, the Prohibiting Anti-Competitive Mergers…

Antitrust

The Best Thing the Department of Labor Can Do for Freelancers is Keep the Trump-era Rule

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The Best Thing the Department of Labor Can Do for Freelancers is Keep the Trump-era Rule

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/17/2022

In a surprising move, a federal court has thrown out the Biden administration’s attempt to throw out the  Trump administration’s new rule to determine…

Labor and Employment

Further Thoughts on the Supreme Court’s Clean Power Plan Case

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Further Thoughts on the Supreme Court’s Clean Power Plan Case

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/17/2022

I heartily recommend the reply briefs by petitioners West Virginia and Westmoreland Mining Holdings, LLC in the Supreme Court’s Clean Power Plan case,…

Energy and Environment

New Antitrust Merger Bill Is Fatally Flawed

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New Antitrust Merger Bill Is Fatally Flawed

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/17/2022

There is yet another antitrust bill in Congress. The Prohibiting Anticompetitive Mergers Act, sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Mondaire Jones…

Antitrust

New Climate Disclosure Rule Coming Soon from SEC

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New Climate Disclosure Rule Coming Soon from SEC

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/16/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will soon release a new proposed rule that will likely require climate change disclosures by public companies. Douglas MacMillan…

Climate

Biden Administration Seeks to Redefine Word “Prevailing”

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Biden Administration Seeks to Redefine Word “Prevailing”

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/16/2022

The Biden administration has come up with an innovative way to aid its union allies: redefining the word “prevailing” to mean its opposite. The…

Labor and Employment

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine And Energy Prices: Myth vs. Fact

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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine And Energy Prices: Myth vs. Fact

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/16/2022

Candidate Joe Biden repeatedly promised to aggressively target new domestic oil and natural gas projects in the U.S. as part of his climate change…

Energy and Environment

Correcting a Couple of Inflation Whoppers

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Correcting a Couple of Inflation Whoppers

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/15/2022

Over at National Review’s Capital Matters site, I have a piece pointing out that today’s high gas prices aren’t caused by inflation. They’re caused…

Capitalism

Antitrust Is Political

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Antitrust Is Political

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/15/2022

Antitrust regulation is just as politicized as other forms of regulation. Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich’s just-announced investigation into investors whose politics he doesn’t like…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Biden’s Whole-of-Government Equity Agenda Precludes Limited Government

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Biden’s Whole-of-Government Equity Agenda Precludes Limited Government

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/14/2022

A 1977 Reason magazine review of Friedrich Hayek’s “Law, Legislation, and Liberty (Vol. 2) noted Hayek’s contention “that the prime public concern should be,…

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • 03/14/2022

Putin continued his unprovoked war, and Ukrainians and their allies continued their heroic resistance. Inflation rose from 7.5 percent to 7.9 percent. Gas prices…

Deregulation

CEI Submits Appeal of Lack of Peer Review for EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

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CEI Submits Appeal of Lack of Peer Review for EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 03/11/2022

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases on procedural grounds. This is the document which supposedly…

Energy and Environment

Social Cost of Carbon Litigation – Who Will Have the Last Laugh?

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Social Cost of Carbon Litigation – Who Will Have the Last Laugh?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/10/2022

The 10-State litigation led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry to block the Biden administration’s use of social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHG) estimates in…

Energy and Environment

Inflation Numbers Show a Minimum Wage Hike Is Still A Bad Idea

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Inflation Numbers Show a Minimum Wage Hike Is Still A Bad Idea

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/10/2022

Like a slasher movie villain who refuses to die, the push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour seems to have a…

Labor and Employment

Climate Risk, Climate Policy, and the Ukraine Crisis

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Climate Risk, Climate Policy, and the Ukraine Crisis

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/10/2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) sea-level rise report made a media splash when the agency released it in February. Headlines in the…

Energy and Environment

Inflation Sets Another 40-Year High: Relief Is in Sight, with Caveats

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Inflation Sets Another 40-Year High: Relief Is in Sight, with Caveats

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/10/2022

Inflation set a new 40-year high in February. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.8 percent in February, which annualizes to 7.9 percent.

Deregulation

Biden’s Repudiation of Trump’s Regulatory Streamlining Agenda: An Inventory

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Biden’s Repudiation of Trump’s Regulatory Streamlining Agenda: An Inventory

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/08/2022

The explicit pro-regulatory shift by the Biden White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has entailed abandonment not merely of Trump’s…

Deregulation

House Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce Hosts Less than Festive Parade for Big Tech Accountability

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House Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce Hosts Less than Festive Parade for Big Tech Accountability

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 03/07/2022

The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce met on Tuesday, March 1, for a legislative hearing on “Holding Big…

Tech and Telecom

How Newt Gingrich Laid the Groundwork for Congressional Staff Unionizing

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How Newt Gingrich Laid the Groundwork for Congressional Staff Unionizing

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/07/2022

The current effort by congressional staff to unionize builds on a legal groundwork laid decades ago by Republicans. In fact, the idea was…

Labor and Employment

The New Office Normal

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The New Office Normal

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/07/2022

What is the best workplace model for employers to follow as COVID-19 (hopefully) continues to wind down? In an Inside Sources op-ed currently being…

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/07/2022

The Ukrainian people have proven more resilient that the Kremlin anticipated, though Putin’s invasion continued. President Biden gave his State of the Union speech. Employment…

Deregulation

Climate Change as an “Existential Threat” Is So 2021

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Climate Change as an “Existential Threat” Is So 2021

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 03/04/2022

President Joe Biden confirmed in his State of the Union address to Congress on March 1 that climate change was last…

Energy and Environment

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