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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

Stablecoins Come of Age in Ukraine-Russia Conflict

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Stablecoins Come of Age in Ukraine-Russia Conflict

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 03/03/2022

Across the globe, people living under oppressive regimes are already familiar with stablecoins—digital assets pegged to a stable monetary value, usually the U.S. dollar. Now,…

Deregulation

Don’t Raise Accredited Investor Thresholds

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Don’t Raise Accredited Investor Thresholds

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 03/03/2022

The gulf between Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler’s rhetoric and the results of his leadership continues to widen. In interviews and…

Deregulation

One Nation, Ungovernable? The Bipolar Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations

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One Nation, Ungovernable? The Bipolar Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/02/2022

As we lurch from crisis to crisis, it is interesting to compare the way one administration’s philosophy of government response to both shock and normalcy…

Deregulation

Clean Power Plan Litigation: The Supreme Court Should Rein in the EPA

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Clean Power Plan Litigation: The Supreme Court Should Rein in the EPA

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/02/2022

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. Depending on how the Court decides it, the case…

Energy and Environment

Disregard the U.N.’s Latest Climate Screed

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Disregard the U.N.’s Latest Climate Screed

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 03/01/2022

The second big part of the newly released Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—also known as the…

Energy and Environment

Biden’s State of the Union “Trillions Down” on Big Government Mistakes

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Biden’s State of the Union “Trillions Down” on Big Government Mistakes

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/01/2022

Ladies and Gentlemen, the State of the Union is that of far more government control over the nation’s economy in years. The years following 2022…

Deregulation

What Do Workers Want?

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What Do Workers Want?

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/25/2022

Pundits and politicians are talking about how to get back to normal as COVID (hopefully) winds down into an endemic disease like the cold or…

Labor and Employment

This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrage (Twelfth in a Series: Love Field Update)

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This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrage (Twelfth in a Series: Love Field Update)

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 02/25/2022

A few months ago, I blogged about the curious case of a currency seizure at Dallas Love Field. In December, the Dallas Police Department (DPD)…

Legal

FERC Ignores CEI’s Advice to Steer Clear of Climate Policy

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FERC Ignores CEI’s Advice to Steer Clear of Climate Policy

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/25/2022

The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is a deeply flawed attempt to assign a dollar value to the cumulative climate-related damages caused by…

Energy and Environment

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