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The Unfairness of the FTC’s Policy Statement Regarding the Scope of Unfair Methods of Competition

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The Unfairness of the FTC’s Policy Statement Regarding the Scope of Unfair Methods of Competition

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/14/2022

The latest in a stream of regulatory dark matter is the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) November 10, 2022 “Policy Statement Regarding the Scope…

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/14/2022

The midterm elections happened, and most of us (sorry, Georgia) are finally free of misleading, scaremongering political ads. Inflation slowed down slightly. Meanwhile,…

Deregulation

Not Your Grandfather’s Bank Branch

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Not Your Grandfather’s Bank Branch

  • By: Ivan Osorio
  • 11/11/2022

What should financial services do? And how should they look like going forward as they try to serve more people? Some presenters are the recent…

Innovation

Who’s Not Buying Electric Vehicles? Single Vehicle Households, for One

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Who’s Not Buying Electric Vehicles? Single Vehicle Households, for One

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/10/2022

Proponents of electric vehicles (EVs) have little to say about the one-third of American households that own only a single car or truck. That isn’t…

Energy and Environment

October Inflation Slightly Improves: Time for Less Politics and More Policy

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October Inflation Slightly Improves: Time for Less Politics and More Policy

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/10/2022

Thank goodness the election is over. One of the frustrating parts of midterm season was that many people were more interested in how inflation would…

Monetary Policy

Why Cops Should Be Chasing the Bad Guys, Not the Big Bucks

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Why Cops Should Be Chasing the Bad Guys, Not the Big Bucks

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 11/10/2022

A recent episode of Archer featured a dialogue between two FBI agents, both riding on jet skis, chasing a wrongdoer’s boat. Agent One: Whoohoo!…

Legal

We Need to Pay More Attention to AI

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We Need to Pay More Attention to AI

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 11/08/2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most important emerging technologies today. It has the potential to revolutionize many industries and sectors, including health care,…

Innovation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/07/2022

The Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate again, though it remains less than the rate of inflation. Employment increased by 261,000 in…

Deregulation

Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rate; Uncertainty Strengthens Case for a Policy Rule

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Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rate; Uncertainty Strengthens Case for a Policy Rule

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/02/2022

As expected, the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 0.75 percentage points coming out of this week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)…

Monetary Policy

A Dose of Reality Over “Zero-Emissions” Electric Vehicles

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A Dose of Reality Over “Zero-Emissions” Electric Vehicles

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/02/2022

 Far too many journalists sound like cheerleaders when the topic is electric vehicles (EVs). That’s why RealClear Investigations’ Zero Emissions From Electric Vehicles? Here’s…

Energy and Environment

Retro Review: Jared Diamond—Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Norton, 1997)

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Retro Review: Jared Diamond—Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Norton, 1997)

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/01/2022

In 1972, Jared Diamond was researching bird evolution in New Guinea. While walking along a beach, he had an hour-long conversation with a local politician…

Capitalism

Rules and Regulations Increase 45 Percent during Biden Administration

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Rules and Regulations Increase 45 Percent during Biden Administration

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/31/2022

You’ve heard plenty from this quarter on broken disclosure and transparency in the Biden administration, which eliminated the “Deregulatory” designation for rules implanted…

Deregulation

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/31/2022

Happy Halloween! CEI released the latest edition of Wayne Crews’s Ten Thousand Commandments report, which gives a big-picture overview of the federal regulatory state.

Deregulation

NLRB Seeks to Gag Amazon Management

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NLRB Seeks to Gag Amazon Management

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/28/2022

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently alleged that Amazon chief executive office Andy Jassy violated federal labor laws by publicly saying that he…

Labor and Employment

Meta’s Drop in Stock Price Unlikely to Dissuade Antitrust Inquiries, but It Should.

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Meta’s Drop in Stock Price Unlikely to Dissuade Antitrust Inquiries, but It Should.

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 10/28/2022

“We don’t even know what it is yet.” That’s how the theatrical depiction of Mark Zuckerberg described “The Facebook” to his then co-founder Eduardo…

Antitrust

Reining in Biden CFPB’s “Junk” Policies with Fifth Circuit Ruling

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Reining in Biden CFPB’s “Junk” Policies with Fifth Circuit Ruling

  • By: John Berlau
  • 10/27/2022

When the federal Fifth Circuit Court Appeals ruled last week, in Community Financial Services v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, that the funding structure of…

Financial Regulation

Mandatory Union Fees are Junk Fees

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Mandatory Union Fees are Junk Fees

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/27/2022

The White House yesterday called up federal agencies to target “junk fees” charged to consumers, arguing that these hidden costs are exploitative and drag…

Labor and Employment

New Whole-of-Government Initiative on Junk Fees Comes with Unintended Consequences

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New Whole-of-Government Initiative on Junk Fees Comes with Unintended Consequences

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/26/2022

Today the Biden administration announced a new whole-of-government initiative on junk fees from airlines and other industries. The news comes on the same day…

Consumer Choice

Talking Points on Biden’s “Whole-of-Government” Regulatory Escalations

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Talking Points on Biden’s “Whole-of-Government” Regulatory Escalations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/26/2022

Among much else, the 2022 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments presents a $2 trillion undercount of regulatory costs and showcases the march of rulemaking…

Deregulation

Ten Thousand Commandments 2022 Released

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Ten Thousand Commandments 2022 Released

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
  • 10/26/2022

The 2022 edition of Wayne Crews’s Ten Thousand Commandments report is out now. Now in its 28th year, it has its usual panoply of…

Deregulation

Workers Should Be Able to Hear from Both Sides Before Union Votes

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Workers Should Be Able to Hear from Both Sides Before Union Votes

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/24/2022

Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Albany, New York, opposed forming a union by a nearly two-to-one margin last week. It was the…

Labor and Employment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/24/2022

Just two more weeks until the relentless barrage of misleading election ads goes away. The Energy Information Administration warned that heating bills could get…

Deregulation

Policy and Politics Are Different Things

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Policy and Politics Are Different Things

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/20/2022

What is more important this election: The culture wars or policy issues like inflation? In an op-ed as part of a point-counterpoint series from…

Capitalism

Not a Policy Paper, Just a Thought: Anti-Merger Mania

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Not a Policy Paper, Just a Thought: Anti-Merger Mania

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/20/2022

What is the correct number of corporate mergers that should be allowed? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) thinks it knows the answer: less. It has…

Antitrust

Seizing the Ecomodernist Moment

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Seizing the Ecomodernist Moment

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 10/19/2022

I recently had the good fortune to attend Ecomodernism 2022, a conference hosted in northern Virginia by the Breakthrough Institute. The theme was “Deregulating…

Capitalism

One Year on, FDA Sodium Guidance Still Wanting

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One Year on, FDA Sodium Guidance Still Wanting

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 10/17/2022

It is the one year anniversary of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Guidance for Industry setting out goals to reduce sodium content in…

Healthcare

Jason Feifer on Managing Change in Life and Society

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Jason Feifer on Managing Change in Life and Society

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 10/14/2022

I recently wrote a review of Build for Tomorrow, the new book from Entrepreneur magazine editor-in-chief Jason Feifer. The book is a…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/14/2022

Inflation took a turn for the worse and the January 6 Committee voted to subpoena former President Trump over his role in the…

Deregulation

A Tough Winter Ahead for Heating Bills, According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration

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A Tough Winter Ahead for Heating Bills, According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/13/2022

High gasoline prices will soon have an equally unpleasant partner in the form of high energy bills this winter, according to the U.S. Energy Information…

Energy and Environment

CPI Rises 0.4 Percent in September, 8.2 Percent over Past Year

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CPI Rises 0.4 Percent in September, 8.2 Percent over Past Year

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/13/2022

September’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation numbers came out this morning, and they aren’t pretty. The month-to-month increase was 0.4 percent, after rising just…

Monetary Policy

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