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Lame Duck Quacks Needed Dodd-Frank Relief

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/12/2014

Waaaah! That’s the sound of former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) crying about stinging, bipartisan rebukes to his legacy of the Dodd-Frank…

Banking and Finance

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Liberals and Conservatives Challenge Overreach of Dodd-Frank’s FSOC on MetLife

  • By: John Berlau
  • 11/18/2014

As CEI brings suit before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals tomorrow challenging the constitutionality of unaccountable bureaucracies created by the Dodd-Frank “financial reform” law…

Banking and Finance

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Crowdfunding Is Entrepreneurship’s History and its Future

  • By: John Berlau
  • 11/18/2014

In America and around the world, aspiring entrepreneurs are meeting their colleagues and their mentors in official and unofficial sessions of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Created…

Banking and Finance

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Gruber’s “Speakola” Virus and Pelosi’s Selective Memory

  • By: John Berlau
  • 11/14/2014

Obamacare supporters say that when deciding King v. Burwell and the related Halbig v. Burwell, challenges to the law that the Competitive Enterprise Institute helped fund and coordinate,…

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CFPBs Prepaid Debit Card Rules Will Harm Low-Income Consumers

  • By: John Berlau
  • 11/13/2014

Today’s action by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to issue unprecedented burdens on providers of prepaid debit cards shows why the bureau needs to be held…

Banking and Finance

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The Economist: Interchange Fee Caps Benefit Large Retailers at Consumer Expense

  • By: John Berlau
  • 10/09/2014

Surprise! Price controls lead to unintended consequences—including transfers of wealth to parties who lobbied for those controls. That’s the actual – and unsurprising – result…

Banking and Finance

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See Me at San Francisco Crowdfund Banking and Lending Summit

  • By: John Berlau
  • 10/08/2014

My colleague Wayne Crews’ Forbes column Monday explained “How Entrepreneurs Can Speak Out About the Cost of Regulation,” but noted sadly that “businesses that never form…

Banking and Finance

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For Fannie and Freddie Reform, Transparency Is a Must

  • By: John Berlau
  • 09/22/2014

Six years after the onset of the financial crisis, another Congress has adjourned without doing anything to rein in the government-sponsored entities (GSEs) that many…

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You’re a SIFI, Charlie Brown

  • By: John Berlau
  • 09/05/2014

“Good grief!” That’s what the Charlie Brown, star of comic strip Peanuts and cartoon spokesman for the MetLife insurance firm, might say about the government’s…

Banking and Finance

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Eric Holder Avenges Investor Fraud by Taking from Defrauded Investors

  • By: John Berlau
  • 08/22/2014

“Bank of America failed to make accurate and complete disclosure to investors and its illegal conduct kept investors in the dark,” declared a government official…

Banking and Finance

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Subprime Auto Concerns Caused by Government Intervention

  • By: John Berlau
  • 07/25/2014

Should we worry about a crisis in subprime auto loans? That question has been asked in the financial media lately. My answer is yes, with…

Banking and Finance

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Dodd-Frank Is Obamacare for Non-Health Insurance

  • By: John Berlau
  • 07/07/2014

“If you like your life, home, and auto insurance, you can keep them.” President Obama didn’t make this promise when he signed into law the…

Banking and Finance

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Alito’s Excellent Defense of “Corporate Personhood” in Hobby Lobby

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/30/2014

The groundbreaking decision today in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, in which the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Obamacare’s contraception mandate violates the religious freedom of two closely…

Health and Safety

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Cantor’s Loss a Warning Shot to Supporters of Ex-Im Bank and Johnson-Crapo

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/16/2014

Defying conventional wisdom as he often does, Pulitzer prize-winning pundit George F. Will disputed the notion that in the wake of the shocking primary loss…

Banking and Finance

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Maya Angelou, Herb Jeffries, and the Freedom to Prosper

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/04/2014

Competitive Enterprise Institute President Lawson Bader has said, "What CEI does, on a daily basis and at its core, is to celebrate and defend…

Property Rights

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Dodd-Frank’s Durbin Amendment Drives Up Costs on Memorial Day and Every Day

  • By: John Berlau
  • 05/27/2014

Over the Memorial Day weekend, the Big Retail lobby created a dubious driving distraction. The Merchants Payments Coalition, whose members include retail giants like Walmart and…

Regulatory Reform

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Johnson-Crapo Is Fannie and Freddie on Steroids

  • By: John Berlau
  • 05/15/2014

Today, after delays and much opposition from many quarters on different grounds, the Johnson-Crapo housing finance overhaul is set to be voted on by the…

Regulatory Reform

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Johnson-Crapo Delayed; CEI-Coordinated Coalition Letter Cited as a Factor

  • By: John Berlau
  • 04/29/2014

Today, in a surprise move, the Senate Banking Committee postponed the vote it had been set to mark up for Johnson-Crapo. Reports vary as…

Regulatory Reform

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First Ever Constitutional Ruling against Dodd-Frank Voids Destructive “Conflict Minerals” Section

  • By: John Berlau
  • 04/14/2014

Today’s ruling of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that Dodd-Frank’s "conflict minerals" disclosure mandate violates the First Amendment is the first time ever a court has…

Regulatory Reform

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How Matt Drudge (and Other Obamacare Victims) Can Escape the “Liberty Tax”

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/25/2014

Former Competitive Enterprise Institute Research Associate Michael Mayfield provided invaluable assistance with this post. Matt Drudge's widely discussed…

Consumer Freedom

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Draconian Dodd-Frank Durbin Debit Controls Need Not Be More Destructive, Court Rules

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/21/2014

As the weather finally turns to spring, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today blew a nice cool breeze of common sense. A bipartisan three-judge…

Law and Litigation

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Johnson-Crapo Is Phony Fannie-Freddie Reform

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/20/2014

Ever since the phrase appeared in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," and its variations, have…

Regulatory Reform

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Obama and Camp’s “Carried Interest” Canard Adds Cost and Complexity to Code

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/04/2014

Once again, according to a White House summary of his 2015 budget to be unveiled later today, President Obama will call for "closing loopholes"…

Regulatory Reform

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GW’s Entrepreneurship and Crowdfunding Barriers to Today’s Revolutionary Entrepreneurs

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/21/2014

Happy Washington’s birthday, everyone! Although the holiday was on Monday, George Washington’s actual date of birth is tomorrow, February 22, in the year 1732. And…

Consumer Freedom

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No Obamaloans at the Post Office!

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/12/2014

While Sen. Elizabeth Warren may proudly brand herself a populist, in her latest crusade, she is casting her lot with fat cats. Warren wants to…

Regulatory Reform

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Target, Retailers Use Dodd-Frank to Skimp on Data Security

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/22/2014

Chutzpah, thy name is the National Retail Federation! In the wake of the recent credit and debit card breach at Target that may have compromised…

Law and Litigation

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“Wall Street” Regs Devastate Main Street Banks and Credit Unions

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/16/2014

Again and again, when regulators implement a new Dodd-Frank regulation aimed at "Wall Street," it is Main Street banks and credit unions that are forced…

Regulatory Reform

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The Great Italian Auto Bailout — Courtesy of U.S. Taxpayers

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/01/2014

At the beginning of 2014, Detroit may be bankrupt, but they're cheering the five-year-old U.S. auto bailout in Italy. That's because after being the beneficiary…

Labor and Employment

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Target Breach — Are Dodd-Frank “Swipe Fee” Price Controls to Blame?

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/24/2013

Target wants  you to know it is oh-so-sorry for any inconvenience its data SNAFU (as OpenMarket is a family blog, please look up the…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

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Volcker Rule Overshoots Wall Street to Hit Utah

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/19/2013

You might think after the disastrous debut of HealthCare.gov and thousands of insurance cancellations, those who call themselves progressives might just have a little humility…

Consumer Freedom

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