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Occupational Health & Safety

DOT Forms In-Flight Sexual Misconduct Task Force

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/26/2018

Occupational Health & Safety cited CEI’s Adjunct Fellow Frances Smith’s new position as ACPAC consumer representative.   The first meeting of DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection…

Aviation

Canada Live News

Ottawa Risks An Endless Loop Of Canadian Farmer Payouts From Trade Deals

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/15/2018

Canada Live News cited CEI on new NAFTA agreement.   “Trade deals are better than no trade deals, generally speaking. But bad trade deals…

Trade and International

Main Street Radio Network

AUDIO: Fred Smith Discusses Capitalism on the Alan Nathan

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 07/12/2017

Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and President of the Center for Advancing Capitalism, Fred L. Smith, Jr., discusses capitalism on the Alan Nathan Show…

Capitalism

The Regulatory Review

Constructively Improving Railroad Regulations

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Marc Scribner
  • 07/11/2017

Edward R. Hamberger, President and CEO of the Association of American Railroads, mentions a piece by Fred Smith and Marc Scribner regarding regulations of the…

Business and Government

Washington Post

Was 2016 a missed opportunity for Libertarians?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/02/2016

The Washington Post discusses why the Liberterian Party struggled to reach people with Fred Smith.  Fred Smith, the founder of the libertarian Competitive…

Capitalism

Daily Caller

Another Shot At Free Market Advocacy

  • By: Amanda France, Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/17/2016

The Daily Caller reports on I, Whiskey, CEI's new short film about whiskey, free markets, and innovation. “I, Whiskey,” is a short film that takes you…

Reason

“The Alternative To Innovation Is Not Stability. It’s Stagnation.”

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/12/2016

Reason discusses capitalism and innovation with CEI's found Fred Smith.  "The alternative to innovation is not stability," says Fred L. Smith, who founded…

Capitalism

Business Ethics Highlights

CEI: There’s Less Corruption In Business Than You Think

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Ryan Young
  • 10/20/2015

The Business Ethics Highlights features CEI's article on rent-seeking. If the data show rent-seeking behavior by firms to be so effective, why don’t…

Business and Government

Investor.com

Pope Worships The Creator, His Advisor Worships The Creation

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/23/2015

The Investors.com cites CEI`s Fred Smith on the Pope`s encyclical on global warming: The pope indicates that his primary trouble with global warming…

Energy and Environment

Newsmax

Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Smith: Entertainment Industry Vilifies Business

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/20/2014

Newsmax discusses Fred Smith's latest Forbes column: "The entertainment…

Capitalism

Business Insider Australia

How A ‘Bunch Of Commies’ Are Forcing The Fortune 500 To Stop Destroying Rain Forests, Overfishing, And Burning Fossil Fuels

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/05/2014

Even Greenpeace’s detractors have taken note of the organisation’s newfound potency. Fred Smith, former president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and founder of the…

Business and Government

Forbes

The Sad Decline of the Word Capitalism

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/01/2013

Not everyone is giving up. One example is Fred L. Smith, chairman and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who has launched the…

Business and Government

The Guardian

CPAC 2013: An angry and beaten US right fires out scattergun wacky policies in hunt for victory

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 03/16/2013

CPAC embraced Trump but did not invite gay Republicans, with their GOProud organisation reduced to a single speaker on…

Business and Government

Washington Post

Fred Smith passes the torch at CEI

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Lawson Bader
  • 01/28/2013

Most think tanks are earnest places — and then there’s the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “People say, ‘CEI has fun people, but some of them are…

Business and Government

America's Future Foundation

Profiles in Liberty: Fred Smith

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 07/24/2012

From Tom Swanson's column for America's Future Foundation: As he prepares to name a successor, Fred Smith has big plans for the…

Business and Government

Washington Post

Would Don Draper Hate Today’s Corporate Ad Campaigns?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/06/2012

From Suzy Khimm's post in The Washington Post's WonkBlog: If an ad man like Don Draper saw the groveling, apologetic PR coming from…

Business and Government

Michigan Capitol Confidential

Federal ‘Stimulus’ Spent $34.5 Million In Michigan For Only 183 Total Jobs

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/10/2012

From Anne Schieber's article on Michigan Capitol Confidential: The real problem is that the government is creating these programs in the first place;…

Business and Government

Reason

Leftwing Pitchforkers: Kill the Limited Government Monsters!

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/26/2012

From Ronald Bailey's article in Reason: In a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal about the relentless Team Blue crusade…

Business and Government

Sun Live

Winning Millions, Saving the Planet and Pink Boots

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/01/2012

From Brian Rogers' article in SunLive: Meanwhile, clear-thinking readers were again subjected to another dose of Earth Hour nonsense this week – when…

Energy and Environment

Reason

Environmentalist Protection Racket: Sierra Club Takes the Money and Runs

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/06/2012

Energy and Environment

Daily Caller

Leaders with Ginni Thomas: Fred Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/22/2011

Business and Government

Point of Law

Mr. and Mrs. Smith Go to Baltimore

  • By: Fran Smith, Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/19/2011

Law and Litigation

PC World

US Lawmakers Push to Limit Gov’t Mobile Tracking

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/18/2011

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Ceske Noviny

Czech President Warns in USA Against Effort to Restrict Freedom

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/20/2011

Business and Government

Radio Praha

President Klaus Warns Against Global Governance

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/20/2011

Business and Government

Reason

What Would You Do to Improve Job Growth?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/12/2011

Business and Government

Forbes

Idealistic Capitalism vs. Idealistic Socialism

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 07/24/2011

Business and Government

The Hill

The Need for an Immigration System Worthy of America

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/16/2011

Trade and International

Newsmax

Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Fred Smith: Strip EPA Before It Kills Economy

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/01/2011

The Real News

Debate: Will Clean Energy Investment Transform Economy and Create Jobs?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 03/14/2011

Energy and Environment

The Detroit News

Nature Conservancy gets $10M from Dow to find sustainable solutions

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/25/2011

Energy and Environment

NCPA

The Problem with Public-Private Partnerships

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/09/2010

Banking and Finance

The Slate

Taking the Tea Party to King George

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/09/2010

The Washington Independent

‘Not Evil Just Wrong’ Puts Human Face on ‘Disastrous’ Effects of Green Policies

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/14/2009

Climate

Spectator

Obama’s Inauspicious Start

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/01/2009

Antitrust

Spectator

Free Market Groups Launch Website to Move “Beyond Bailouts” Toward Fiscal Solvency

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/27/2008

Business and Government

USA Today

Ford CEO pushes government to put on an energy summit

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/23/2005

Energy and Environment

Wall Street Journal

The War Against the Car

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/11/2005

Transportation

Washington Post

Serious thoughts about partying hard

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/16/2005

Citation

Doing Bad by Doing Good

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/14/2005

Washington Times

Think Tank Debunks Popular Myths

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Sam Kazman
  • 05/18/2004

Business and Government

Roll Call

Fireworks Fly

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 07/21/2003

Health and Safety

Chron

The Mother of all Financial Scandals

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/12/2003

Banking and Finance

The Hill

Can Free-Market Greens Rescue the GOP’s Environmental Image?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/09/2003

Energy and Environment

Business Week

Harvey Pitt: Thunder to the Left, Thunder to the Right

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/27/2002

Regulatory Reform

Washington Post

Global Warming Plan Due

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/06/2002

Energy and Environment

Orange County Register

No Price Controls

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/25/2001

Energy and Environment

Wall Street Journal

Norton Faces Tough Scrutiny of Her Words, Activities at Hearing

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/13/2001

Washington Times

A Conservative for EPA

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/22/2000

Energy and Environment

Washington Times

Racicot’s Answer OK with Right

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/21/2000

Washington Times

Fed Up. . . or Well Served by Fannie and Freddie?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/23/2000

Business and Government

Washington Times

A DOT Driving Record

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/19/1999

Transportation

CS Monitor

Change at Helm of Global Economy

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/13/1999

Business and Government

Washington Times

Keep Your Mittens

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 03/12/1999

Energy and Environment

Telegraph

Never forget the moral of Danegeld

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/08/1999

Business and Government

Sierra Club

Billboards on the Garden Wall

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/01/1999

Business and Government

Heartland

News from the Heartland

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/01/1998

Business and Government

Washington Post

‘Fuelish’

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/02/1995

Energy and Environment

Washington Times

Clunker Control

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/07/1990

Energy and Environment

Orange County Register

Common Sense About Clean Air

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/04/1990

Energy and Environment

Orange County Register

Unregulated Old Cars are Primary Polluters

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/04/1990

Automobiles and Roads

Daily Press

Surviving Ourselves

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/22/1990

Energy and Environment

The Olympian

Earth Day or Media Hoax? Some Urge Caution

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/22/1990

Energy and Environment

Denver Post

Way to Stay Green: ‘Stay Red, White and Blue’

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/17/1990

Energy and Environment

A Z Central

Free Market Can Provide Environmental Leadership

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/15/1990

Energy and Environment

Miami Herald

Earth Day 1990: Even Corporations Want In

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 04/03/1990

Energy and Environment

The Spectator

The Giant Rat of Kenya

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 03/01/1990

Business and Government

Hoover

“Let’s Pretend” Markets

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 07/01/1989

Business and Government

Washington Post

Antitrust Act May Undergo Major Changes

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/19/1986

Regulatory Reform

Citation

Momentum Builds for Antitrust Reform

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/01/1986

Transportation

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