The Open Market Blog

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/30/2019

In my recent Forbes column “Rule of Flaw and the Costs of Coercion: Charting Undisclosed Burdens of the Administrative State,” I discussed checks on the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/30/2019

U.S. Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III noted in a 2017 journal article that regulation sometimes contains “too much detail,” changes too “frequently and capriciously,” creates backlogs and…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/23/2019

President Donald Trump has pruned rules and costs at a quicker pace than other presidents. But could his other policies torpedo that?…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/31/2018

Even in an administration attempting to cut regulation, the number of rules from hundreds of federal agencies (nobody really knows exactly how many) will vastly outstrip the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/31/2018

At year-end 2018, how is President Donald Trump’s regulatory reform project going?…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/17/2018

The fall 2018 Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions just appeared today. Notably, this is the first time the fall…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 08/20/2018

Why does it need to be such a headache to get timely reports on the costs and benefits of federal regulation? Government spends and it regulates.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/22/2018

How many deregulatory actions have been taken so far in the Trump administration? Along with 16 congressional “resolutions of disapproval” of existing Obama-era regulations—another…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/21/2018

In tracking the Trump administration’s regulatory vs. deregulatory actions, there can be discrepancy between the official Unified Agenda compilation (the tally that’s been around…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/09/2018

Today the Trump administration released the Spring 2018 edition of the twice-yearly Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, accompanied…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/29/2018

Consumers will suffer from government efforts to create a nationalized 5G telecommunications network, and the rumoured plan to move in that direction needs to be …

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/29/2018

Rollbacks of federal regulation are a main element of the Trump administration’s economic recipe and deserve credit. It’s highly likely that the loosening of red…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/08/2018

We urgently need a catalog of guidance documents that were actually submitted to Congress and the Government Accountability Office as required.  …

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/02/2018

Even when an administration tries to cut regulation, the number of rules from hundreds of federal agencies will vastly outstrip the number of laws Congress passes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/29/2017

Today, Friday, December 29, 2017, is the last federal workday of the year. This presents an opportunity to round up all rules and regulations produced…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/19/2017

In the White House’s new "Unified Agenda," the administration touts success in surpassing President Trump’s goal to eliminate two regulations for every one adopted.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/14/2017

Today the Trump administration released the Fall 2017 edition of the twice-yearly Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, accompanied…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/01/2017

The Trump mode has been to regulate bureaucrats rather than the public. New, large-scale regulation has largely stopped in 2017, and where it hasn’t, new…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 08/15/2017

Corporate income taxes collected by the U.S. government, estimated as noted at $278 billion for 2017, are dwarfed by regulatory costs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 06/09/2017

Whether looking at predecessors’ first or final years, Trump is so far the least regulatory president of all.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/09/2017

The burden of federal government paperwork now takes up 9.778 billion hours a year.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/16/2016

Today standing at 91,642 pages, the Federal Register is 10,000 pages higher than the prior all-time record.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/17/2016

Well that didn’t him take long. President Barack Obama’s Federal Register, the daily depository of rules and regulations, added 572 pages today, and stands at…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/15/2016

Today’s Federal Register added 572 pages, and stands at 80,562 pages for 2016.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/11/2016

Yesterday the Federal Register hit its fifth-highest count of 79,380 pages.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/10/2016

We’ve documented here throughout November that the Federal Register is steamrolling through 2016, Obama’s final year.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/04/2016

We noted here on November 1 that the Federal Register is on a roll, hitting 76,270 pages, the 8th highest level ever.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/01/2016

The Federal Register is on a roll. On Friday, it hit 75,314 pages, the 10th highest level of all time, even though more than two…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/31/2016

Today, the 2016 Federal Register stands at 75, 670 pages, the 9th highest “yearly” count of all time—but it’s only Halloween.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/18/2016

Implement a “Do Not Regulate” Office to Clarify Economic Liberalization Alternatives to, and Explicit Exit Strategies from, Command and Control Rules.

Regulatory Reform