Consumers get forgotten in all the politics. The best way to protect consumers is to protect an open, competitive market process, in which companies succeed or fail based not on their political connections or ideological correctness, but on how well they serve consumers.
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‘Net Neutrality’ Faces a Stiff Judicial Test
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday along partisan lines to reclassify broadband internet access service as a common carrier telecommunications service under Title II of…
Blog
FTC tightens grip over its in-house judges
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) possesses one of the most conflicted administrative law court (ALC) systems. The agency recently began hiring new administrative…
News Release
Spirit Announces Furloughs after Biden, Court Scuttle Merger with JetBlue
In the wake of an adverse court ruling and a Biden administration threat to stop a merger between budget airlines Spirit Airlines and JetBlue, the…
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News Release
Bill Clinton’s Shifting Policy on Climate Change
Contacts: Marlo Lewis, 202.669.6693 (Montréal) Myron Ebell, 202.320.6685 (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C.)…
Op-Eds
Who’s afraid of big business?
Everybody agrees, it seems, that big business has too much influence in Washington. Most people are confused, however, as to what big business is doing…
Op-Eds
A Windfall of Bad Ideas
In the third-quarter of 2005, the major U.S. oil companies—ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP America, and Shell Oil Company—collectively earned almost $26 billion in profits, an…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS The Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce renewed efforts toward forcing cable companies…
News Release
CEI Experts Available on UN Global Warming Talks
Contacts: (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />U.S.) Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 (Montreal) Richard Morrison, 202.441.9652 Washington,…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY Drug maker Merck & Co. announces layoffs of 7,000 workers amid uncertainty surrounding…
Op-Eds
An analog armageddon?
Hollywood movies are replete with bad guys nefariously plotting to control the world, but these days, music and movie industry associations are looking awfully…
Op-Eds
Cardiac arrest at the FDA
The photograph on your Tuesday front page headlined “Hillary health care” shows Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, in Jerusalem holding a CardioPump—a device…
News Release
Wal-Mart Critics Reading from an Old Script
Contact: Richard Morrison , 202.331.2273 Washington , D.C. , November 18, 2005—The success of retail giant Wal-Mart has generated criticism of its…
Op-Eds
The UN’s War Against Innovation
The leadership of the United Nations is truly the gang that can't shoot straight. Even if the recent incidents of corruption and profiteering—exemplified…
News Release
CEI to Host Congressional Seminar on Windfall Profits Taxes
UPDATE: Download a written transcript of the event, complete with PowerPoint slides, here (PDF format). Listen to a…
News Release
U.S. to U.N. in Tunisia: Hands Off the Internet
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” /> Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C.,…
Letters
An Open Letter to Congress: Franchise Reform
Dear Member of Congress: Much has changed in the decade since Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act. As Congress is considering changes and updates…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. TOBACCO The U.S. declines to ratify the World Health Organization’s anti-tobacco treaty which calls on countries to enact limits on…
News Release
Telecom Scores Merger Success — With Strings Attached
Washington, D.C., October 31, 2005—The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes the Federal Communications Commission’s decision approving the two major telecommunications mergers. Unfortunately, the conditions…
News Release
CEI to Co-sponsor CSR Reconsidered 2005
The CSR Reconsidered conference was a success. Human Events covered the conference and wrote about it here. ‘Wolves in CSR Clothing’ is…
Op-Eds
UNESCO to U.S.: Drop Dead!
Last Thursday, the United States was sucker-punched by an international organization. A majority of countries belonging to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and…
News Release
CEI Congressional Seminar: Tailoring Telecommunications Reform
Date: Friday, October 28, 2005<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Time: 12:00 – 2:00 pm <?xml:namespace prefix…
News Release
Trade Liberalization Again Threatened by Agricultural Special Interests
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., October 20, 2005— The world's best hope for eliminating poverty – the continued liberalization…
News Release
New Study Provides Outline for Telecom Reform
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., October 18, 2005—The rules that govern the telecommunications industry in the United States have…
News Release
Supreme Court Turns Away Justice Department Demand in Tobacco Lawsuit
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., October 17, 2005— The Supreme Court today rightly rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to…
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New Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow to Join CEI
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington, D.C., October 12, 2005— The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce…
Products
Challenge to the State Attorney General-Tobacco Cartel
On August 2, 2005 the Competitive Enterprise Institute launched a legal challenge to the multi-state tobacco settlement of 1998. Nearly seven years after the settlement was…
Op-Eds
Tobacco Ruling Erodes Charter
In Thursday’s ruling in British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco, the Supreme Court of Canada gravely eroded the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by…
News Release
Statement from CEI Counsel Hans Bader on Today’s Ruling in British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, DC, September 29, 2005—In today’s ruling in British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco, the Supreme Court…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HURRICANE KATRINA President Bush addresses the nation from New Orleans, pledging additional assistance to areas…
Op-Eds
Tobacco Deal-Breaker?
“No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.” —- U.S. Constitution, Article I,…
Op-Eds
Suffocating Small Companies
The Washington Times is on target in pointing out the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s strangulation of small public companies in even more layers of red tape (“Relief…
Op-Eds
CAFTA, beneficios y despropósitos (Spanish), by Frances B. Smith
Washington (AIPE)- El Senado de Estados Unidos aprobó el acuerdo de libre comercio con Centroamérica y República Dominicana (CAFTA) el 30 de junio y…
Op-Eds
Slicing Telecom the Right Way: Making a Real Market is the Best Cure for Monopoly
Mergers involving SBC and Verizon and a recent Supreme Court decision exempting cable-modem companies from open-access regulation have reignited fears of market domination…
Op-Eds
Unraveling CAFTA: Lobbyists vs. free trade, by Frances Smith
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Bush administration is taking a risky tack to garner House support for…
Op-Eds
All Cost, No Benefit
Tomorrow, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on Sen. Jeff Bingaman's (D-N.M.) Climate and Economy Insurance Act. Originally…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. LEGAL & CONSTITUTIONAL Property rights activists organize and a Montana Congressman introduces legislation to counter the Supreme…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The Senate passes major new energy legislation. From CEI: Director of Global Warming &…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Dispatch
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Microsoft and the EU Competition Commission have apparently reached an agreement over the Commission’s 2004…
Study
The Revolution Spins toward More Regulation
Full document available in pdf format. …
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ANTITRUST Microsoft submits its final proposal for complying with the latest order by the…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ECONOMIC LIBERTY The union campaign against Wal-Mart expands in the Washington,…
Op-Eds
One Bundle, Many Antitrust Laws: The Dilemma for Digital Products
Alongstanding question in the software debate is whether operating systems and components such as browsers and media players are really separate products bundled as one or…
News Release
A Solution to the Grokster Copyright Debate?
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns…
Study
The Price is Right—Or Better Be!
Full Document Available in PDF On the popular television game show “The…
News Release
Verizon & MCI : A Good Deal for Consumers
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
Op-Eds
New Agenda Fails to Address Problems
George Bernard Shaw once observed that: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the…
Op-Eds
Different Technology, Similar Service
In the absence of competition, regulations serve to protect consumers against monopoly market power. This is, in theory, the reason why the telecommunications…
Products
Unbundling the Confusion over Declining Marginal Cost Pricing
Full Document Available in PDF Declining cost businesses must have ways…
CEI Planet
CEI Planet: November 2004
Full Document Available in PDF In this issue: “Freeing the Biotech Revolution” by Henry…
News Release
EU Rules Against Innovation in Microsoft Case
Contacts: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Clyde <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
Op-Eds
FCC Is Ignoring Impact of Wireless, Other Rivals for Telephone Service
In the absence of competition, regulations serve to protect consumers against monopoly market power. This is, in theory, the reason why the telecommunications local exchange…
Study
Threats to Competitiveness in a Political Environment
Full Document Available in PDF This essay may seem depressing, but…
Study
The Role of Business in the Modern World: Progress, Pressures and Prospects for the Market Economy
Foreward, acknowledgments, and…
Staff & Scholars
Richard Morrison
Senior Fellow
- Antitrust
- Business and Government
- Capitalism and Free Enterprise
Iain Murray
Vice President for Strategy and Senior Fellow
- Banking and Finance
- Trade and International
Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
- Consumer Freedom
- Deregulation
Ryan Young
Senior Economist
- Antitrust
- Business and Government
- Regulatory Reform
Jessica Melugin
Director of the Center for Technology & Innovation
- Antitrust
- Innovation
- Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms
Alex Reinauer
Research Fellow
- Antitrust
- Innovation
- Tech and Telecom