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What’s Ahead for Regulation in 2022?

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What’s Ahead for Regulation in 2022?

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/20/2021

There are two questions about the coming year in regulation. The first is what will happen. The second is what should happen. What will likely…

Deregulation

The Challenges of ESG Investing in Space

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The Challenges of ESG Investing in Space

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/20/2021

Last month, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion on the future of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing in the…

Capitalism

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/20/2021

Two big pieces of good news last week were the Senate’s decision to shelve the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better spending bill and the…

Deregulation

This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrage (Seventh in a Series)

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This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrage (Seventh in a Series)

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 12/17/2021

I’m happy to report that I’ve discovered no new civil forfeiture outrages this week. Instead, I’ll write about two civil forfeiture outrages that are a…

Property Rights

The SEC’s Irrational Fear of Bitcoin

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The SEC’s Irrational Fear of Bitcoin

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 12/17/2021

“The Commission has no basis for the position that investing in the derivatives market for an asset is acceptable for investors while investing in the…

Financial Regulation

Have a Regulated Holiday Season!

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Have a Regulated Holiday Season!

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/16/2021

The Code of Federal Regulations is 185,984 pages long, according to my colleague Wayne Crews’s Ten Thousand Commandmentsreport. It consists of 50 titles spread…

Deregulation

The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act Will Harm Innovation and Competition

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The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act Will Harm Innovation and Competition

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 12/16/2021

At yesterday’s hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights entitled, “The Impact of Consolidation and Monopoly Power in American…

Senate Shelves Build Back Better Spending Bill, For Now

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Senate Shelves Build Back Better Spending Bill, For Now

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/15/2021

The Senate will not vote on the Build Back Better (BBB) spending bill this year, though they might take it up again next year.

Business and Government

Bah Humbug. The States that Ban Booze on Christmas, New Year’s, and other Winter Holidays

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Bah Humbug. The States that Ban Booze on Christmas, New Year’s, and other Winter Holidays

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 12/14/2021

The holidays bring parties, feasts, and visits with friends and family, many of whom haven’t seen each other in person since the start of the…

Consumer Freedom

Policy Makers Should Allow Stablecoins to Thrive

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Policy Makers Should Allow Stablecoins to Thrive

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 12/14/2021

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will convene a hearing on stablecoins today. Congress should focus on the many benefits this form…

Financial Regulation

Can Pensions Be Saved from Political Mismanagement?

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Can Pensions Be Saved from Political Mismanagement?

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/13/2021

The Department of Labor is currently working on a new rule that would give pension fund managers greater leeway in considering non-financial criteria when…

Pensions

President Biden Sows the Whirlwind

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President Biden Sows the Whirlwind

  • By: Patrick J. Michaels
  • 12/13/2021

It’s the president’s job to console the nation when natural disasters strike, like the horrendous tornado outbreak last Friday night. Much of Mayfield, Kentucky,…

Energy and Environment

Biden’s Fall 2021 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation Heralds Abandonment of Regulatory Oversight Role

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Biden’s Fall 2021 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation Heralds Abandonment of Regulatory Oversight Role

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/13/2021

The Biden administration has just released the Fall 2021 edition of the twice-yearly Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/13/2021

The number of new regulations this year topped 3,000, ending the week at 3,068, and the 2021 Federal Register topped 70,000 pages. Inflation went up…

Deregulation

This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrage (Sixth in a Series)

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This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrage (Sixth in a Series)

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 12/10/2021

This week’s civil forfeiture outrage begins with a photograph of a police dog crouching over more than $100,000 in U.S. currency. Earlier this week, CBSDFW.COM…

Legal

Inflation Increases to 6.8 percent, Misery Index Reaches 11

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Inflation Increases to 6.8 percent, Misery Index Reaches 11

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/10/2021

October’s inflation reading was the highest since the recession of 1991. November’s is the highest since the 1982 recession, at an annualized 6.8 percent.

Deregulation

For Energy Infrastructure Projects, Even Supreme Court Victories Mean Nothing

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For Energy Infrastructure Projects, Even Supreme Court Victories Mean Nothing

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 12/09/2021

In the last two years, two different natural gas pipeline projects were the subject of Supreme Court cases, and both times the project developers achieved…

Energy and Environment

Can Regional Trade Agreements Replace the WTO?

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Can Regional Trade Agreements Replace the WTO?

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/08/2021

Trade policy is in a bad place right now, with two consecutive protectionist administrations in the U.S. and the World Trade Organization (WTO) possibly damaged…

Trade and International

Is It Finally Goodbye for Incandescent Light Bulbs—and Consumer Choice?

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Is It Finally Goodbye for Incandescent Light Bulbs—and Consumer Choice?

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 12/08/2021

President George W. Bush initiated the federal government’s targeting of incandescent light bulbs in energy legislation he signed in 2007. Subsequent Department of Energy…

Energy and Environment

Seven Quotes about Communism

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Seven Quotes about Communism

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 12/08/2021

Years ago, I pulled together some quotations about Communism that I thought would make good epitaphs for what I believed was a dying ideology. Unfortunately,…

Capitalism

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/06/2021

The number of new final regulations this year will pass 3,000 this week, with more than three weeks still to go. The Omicron variant gave…

Deregulation

This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrages (Fifth in a Series)

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This Week’s Civil Forfeiture Outrages (Fifth in a Series)

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 12/03/2021

I just finished watching one of the most gripping, compelling videos I have ever seen. It’s like a dystopian horror movie—except it’s real. It’s…

Legal

Why Both Democrats and Republicans Should Oppose Gigi Sohn’s Nomination as FCC Commissioner

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Why Both Democrats and Republicans Should Oppose Gigi Sohn’s Nomination as FCC Commissioner

  • By: Ryan Nabil
  • 12/03/2021

On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee held a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). During the…

Tech and Telecom

CEI’s New Anti-Carbon Tax Study

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CEI’s New Anti-Carbon Tax Study

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/02/2021

CEI has a new study out this week titled, “Why Carbon Taxes Are Anti-Growth, Anti-Consumer, and Politically Dangerous for Conservatives.” It develops the following…

Energy and Environment

Social Media in Parallel Universes

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Social Media in Parallel Universes

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 12/02/2021

The chasm between the political discourse at yesterday’s House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on social media platforms and the legal decision…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Request to OIRA to Ensure Peer Review of Agency’s Medical Marijuana Claims

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Request to OIRA to Ensure Peer Review of Agency’s Medical Marijuana Claims

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 12/01/2021

For two years, CEI has been trying to get the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to conduct…

Consumer Freedom

The Bizarre Logic of the NLRB’s Decision in the Amazon Union Case

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The Bizarre Logic of the NLRB’s Decision in the Amazon Union Case

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/01/2021

The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) order overturning the workers’ rejection of a union at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama, and ordering…

Deregulation

Another Court Rejects Federal Attempt to Impose a Vaccine Mandate

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Another Court Rejects Federal Attempt to Impose a Vaccine Mandate

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 11/29/2021

Shortly following the Fifth Circuit blocking the private employer mandate from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Judge Matthew Schelp of the Eastern…

Legal

Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Cannot Undo Biden Administration’s Anti-Drilling Agenda

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Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Cannot Undo Biden Administration’s Anti-Drilling Agenda

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/29/2021

The Biden administration seems to know the playbook for pretending to respond to high gasoline prices. First, blame big oil for price gouging and launch…

Energy and Environment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/26/2021

It was a short work week because of Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, agencies issued new rules ranging from blood lancets to crash test dummies. On to the…

Deregulation

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