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Reciprocal Switching Is a Bad Idea at a Bad Time

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Reciprocal Switching Is a Bad Idea at a Bad Time

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 02/10/2022

The Surface Transportation Board has resurrected a bad idea it considered in 2012 and 2016—mandated reciprocal switching for freight railroads. For background, you can’t do…

Transportation

New Export-Import Bank President Has Opportunities for Reform

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New Export-Import Bank President Has Opportunities for Reform

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/10/2022

Reta Jo Lewis is about to become the next president of the Export-Import Bank. The Senate confirmed her nomination yesterday. Called Ex-Im for short,…

Business and Government

Steel Tariffs against Japan Lifted, Kind of

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Steel Tariffs against Japan Lifted, Kind of

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/09/2022

President Biden is taking a small step toward tariff relief. Japan’s first 1.25 million metric tons per year of steel exports to the U.S.

Trade and International

New Hampshire Considers Major Forfeiture Reform

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New Hampshire Considers Major Forfeiture Reform

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 02/09/2022

The New Hampshire state legislature’s House Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety is considering a significant change to the Granite State’s forfeiture laws:…

Legal

Don’t EARN IT

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Don’t EARN IT

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/09/2022

Bad policy made with good intentions still delivers poor results. That is the case with the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies…

Tech and Telecom

New Mexico Should Reject Interest Rate Limit Base on Federal Mismeasurement

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New Mexico Should Reject Interest Rate Limit Base on Federal Mismeasurement

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/07/2022

There is an old saying that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” It has…

Financial Regulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/07/2022

The U.S. government’s debt reached $30 trillion last week. Antitrust target Facebook lost users last quarter for the first time in its history,…

Deregulation

U.S. Geological Survey Study Underscores Extent of Import Dependence for Critical Minerals

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U.S. Geological Survey Study Underscores Extent of Import Dependence for Critical Minerals

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/04/2022

The U.S. Geological Survey’s recent report, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022, documents the significant extent to which America relies on imports of numerous critical minerals,…

Energy and Environment

Good News for Facebook Competitors, Bad News for the FTC’s Antitrust Case

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Good News for Facebook Competitors, Bad News for the FTC’s Antitrust Case

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/04/2022

Thursday brought some interesting news, none of which were kind to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against Facebook. First, Facebook’s number of…

Antitrust

Protect Consumers, Not Competitors

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Protect Consumers, Not Competitors

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/03/2022

The Open App Markets Act (S. 2710) is the latest in a parade of antitrust legislation aimed at reining in “big tech” companies that…

Tech and Telecom

The America COMPETES Act’s Outbound Investment Review Framework Threatens U.S. Global Economic Competitiveness

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The America COMPETES Act’s Outbound Investment Review Framework Threatens U.S. Global Economic Competitiveness

  • By: Ryan Nabil
  • 02/03/2022

Earlier this week, the House of Representatives introduced a bill, the America COMPETES” Act (H.R. 4521; the backronym is for ‘‘America Creating Opportunities for…

Trade and International

The COMPETES Act Is a Bad Idea. Here’s What Congress Should Do Instead

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The COMPETES Act Is a Bad Idea. Here’s What Congress Should Do Instead

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/03/2022

The 2,912-page America COMPETES Act (H.R. 4521; the backronym is for ‘‘America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and Economic Strength’’) is the…

Trade and International

Even Most Democrats Favor Right to Work Laws

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Even Most Democrats Favor Right to Work Laws

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/01/2022

For being so controversial, right to work laws are pretty popular. A majority of states, 27, have them and even Democrats will give…

Labor and Employment

Indiana Beverage Bill Helps [Some] Businesses by Harming Consumers

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Indiana Beverage Bill Helps [Some] Businesses by Harming Consumers

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 01/31/2022

Businesses are still reeling from the combined effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain problems. Luckily, legislatures across the country have recognized that the…

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/31/2022

GDP grew 5.7 percent during 2021, giving further evidence of a strong economic rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. Even so, Congress is now considering…

Deregulation

Social Cost of Carbon – Pretzel Logic Cannot Save NetZero Agenda

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Social Cost of Carbon – Pretzel Logic Cannot Save NetZero Agenda

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/28/2022

A new paper by economists Nicolas Stern, Joseph Stiglitz, Kristina Karlson, and Charlotte Taylor calls upon the Biden administration to set a “social cost of carbon…

Energy and Environment

Rising Pay Undermines Push for Increasing the Minimum Wage

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Rising Pay Undermines Push for Increasing the Minimum Wage

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/28/2022

A Department Labor report released Friday shows wages rising 4.5 percent, evidence that the Biden administration’s plan to raise the federal minimum wage…

Labor and Employment

This Week’s Outrage (Which, Again, Touches on Civil Asset Forfeiture)

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This Week’s Outrage (Which, Again, Touches on Civil Asset Forfeiture)

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 01/28/2022

Last week, the Birmingham News published a scorching expose of police practices in the little town of Brookside, Alabama (population 1,253). Brookside has no…

Legal

CEI Leads Coalition Letter to Department of Energy Defending Freedom of Choice for Light Bulbs

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CEI Leads Coalition Letter to Department of Energy Defending Freedom of Choice for Light Bulbs

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/27/2022

As I described in my recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, A Regulatory Burden For Every Room In Your House, the Biden administration has embarked…

Energy and Environment

Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Is Still a Bad Idea Even If Properly Enacted

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Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Is Still a Bad Idea Even If Properly Enacted

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/26/2022

The best that can be said about the Biden administration’s decision to withdraw the executive order for its COVID-19 vaccine mandate and instead try to…

Deregulation

A Dangerous Antitrust Game for Microsoft and Consumers

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A Dangerous Antitrust Game for Microsoft and Consumers

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 01/25/2022

Microsoft’s couldn’t have picked a more inauspicious day to announce its planned acquisition of gaming company, Activision Blizzard. The news came concurrently with antitrust regulators…

Antitrust

Better Ways to Fight Poverty than the Minimum Wage

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Better Ways to Fight Poverty than the Minimum Wage

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/24/2022

Every January, states and cities across the country raise their minimum wages. There are also calls to raise the federal minimum wage, which has stayed…

Labor and Employment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/24/2022

A major antitrust bill from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is poised to hit the Senate floor without a proper hearing. Considering its contents, one…

Deregulation

Court Enjoins Enforcement of Federal Workforce Vaccine Mandate

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Court Enjoins Enforcement of Federal Workforce Vaccine Mandate

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 01/21/2022

The Biden administration has promulgated four COVID-19 vaccination mandates. Two were issued via administration regulations and were recently reviewed by the Supreme Court. For…

Legal

CFPB’s Dodd-Frank Race and Gender Data Collection Mandates Will Harm Financial Inclusion

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CFPB’s Dodd-Frank Race and Gender Data Collection Mandates Will Harm Financial Inclusion

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/21/2022

In mid-2020, on the 10th anniversary of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul being rammed through Congress and signed by then-President Obama, I catalogued the damage…

Financial Regulation

This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrage (Tenth in a Series: Baltimore Edition)

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This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrage (Tenth in a Series: Baltimore Edition)

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 01/21/2022

This Baltimore Brew news story describes how the Baltimore Police Department (BPD)—like many police departments around the country—seizes millions of dollars, thousands of weapons,…

Legal

As Numbers Stagnate, Unions Continue to Look to Congress For Salvation

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As Numbers Stagnate, Unions Continue to Look to Congress For Salvation

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/20/2022

The Department of Labor’s latest statistics confirm that the union movement in the U.S. remains stagnant and slowly declining. Only 10.3 percent of U.S.

Labor and Employment

The American Innovation and Choice Online Act Would Regulate Away Consumer Benefits

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The American Innovation and Choice Online Act Would Regulate Away Consumer Benefits

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 01/19/2022

Perhaps Congress’ enthusiasm for ongoing government oversight of business decisions, embodied in tomorrow’s closed door markup of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act…

Antitrust

Comments on Department of Labor Pension ESG Rule

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Comments on Department of Labor Pension ESG Rule

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/19/2022

At the end of last year, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a notice of proposed rulemaking seeking to rewrite rules on pension fund…

Business and Government

Six Myths about Bitcoin Energy Use

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Six Myths about Bitcoin Energy Use

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 01/19/2022

Newsweek: Bitcoin Mining on Track to Consume All of the World’s Energy by 2020 Bloomberg: What if there were a safe digital currency…

Financial Regulation

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