Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/08/2019

Economist Harold Demsetz, a Chicago school theorist who was one of the pioneers of the approach now called New Institutional Economics, had died. The former…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/08/2019

After a contentious election season, we look forward to the nation’s elected representatives rolling up their sleeves and getting to work. Divided party control in…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/04/2019

Our friends at Reason have been following a fascinating story unfolding in New York City, in which a business owner is trying to fend off what many people would…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 01/02/2019

CEI’s Agenda for the 116th Congress highlights specific steps lawmakers can take to rein in unlawful overreach by executive agencies, reduce the costs of federal regulations,…

Business and Government

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 12/24/2018

Are Tucker Carlson’s predictions of Google taking over the future keeping you up at night? Sooth yourself with the creative destruction described in “Life after…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/21/2018

If 2018 was a bad year for antitrust skeptics, 2019 promises to be worse. We must hope that the Federal Trade Commission and Department of…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/21/2018

Goldberg’s “Suicide of the West” is a literate, snappily written, and often humorous defense of Enlightenment values and a broadside against populism. Steven Pinker’s “Enlightenment…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/20/2018

Think Julian Simon, Matt Ridley, and Steven Pinker’s data-driven optimism, mixed with Michael Shermer and Bryan Caplan’s awareness of human cognitive biases, as told by…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 12/20/2018

The holiday season is a good time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and what we can look forward to in the next year. That’s…

Business and Government

• Michelle Minton
• 12/20/2018

According to reports, the Department of Justice is considering releasing a memo that reverses a 2011 decision by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) which…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/19/2018

The new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Kathleen Kraninger, will have a unique opportunity to end past abuses against American financial institutions, a…

Business and Government

• By: Kent Lassman
• 12/14/2018

There is a concerted effort from elements on both sides of the political aisle to use antitrust law to regulate and ultimately break apart Big…

Antitrust

• Ryan Radia
• 12/11/2018

As Google’s CEO testifies in the House of Representatives today, Competitive Enterprise Institute technology policy expert Ryan Radia disputes claims that the technology company has…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/10/2018

Columbia University professor Tim Wu is author of the new book The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, which calls for a…

Antitrust

• By: John Berlau
• 12/07/2018

Inside ARM cited CEI’s Senior Fellow John Berlau on Kathy Kraninger confirmation. Today, the Senate voted on and confirmed Kathy Kraninger as the…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/06/2018

This week marks the 85th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, and we still have a lot to learn from that dismal experiment in government overreach.

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/06/2018

It’s very rare I disagree with the great freedom-loving journalist John Stossel, but his column at Townhall this week made me raise an eyebrow. In…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/30/2018

While the political headlines this week are dominated by a public feud between the Secretary of the Interior and the likely incoming chairman of the…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/28/2018

CEI's Ryan Young explores the lessons policymakers should learn from General Motors’ announcement of layoffs and plant closures.

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/15/2018

Recently Dave Sussman of the show Whiskey Politics featured myself and my old pals Drew Tidwell and Helen Straight of Passing Lane Films on his…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/09/2018

Congratulations to our friends at Reason magazine (and the Reason Foundation) on their golden anniversary. Some members of the Competitive Enterprise Institute team were recently…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 11/08/2018

For the big technology firms, the midterm elections were never going to change much.  Whatever the result, they were going to face more scrutiny over the…

Antitrust

• 11/07/2018

Patch Media cited CEI’s score of Senator Stabenow.   Stabenow will receive $159,400 per year from her 22 years in Congress ($174,000 annual salary)…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/02/2018

Before we bid farewell to Halloween week 2018 for good, let’s take a chance to glean an economic lesson from the piles of candy, cardboard…

Business and Government

• By: Anna St. John
• 10/31/2018

But then, imagine that when the attorneys settle the case, they take all the money for themselves, plus a few other class members, and funnel…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 10/26/2018

When Duke University historian Nancy MacLean released her book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America” last Summer,…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/26/2018

There is good news for fans of the Poor Piggy’s BBQ food truck. The town of Carolina Beach, North Carolina has reversed its anticompetitive…

Antitrust

• By: Marc Scribner
• 10/24/2018

Forty years ago today on October 24, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act into law. This bipartisan legislation led to the elimination…

Antitrust

• By: John Berlau
• 10/23/2018

Depending on whom you talk to, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is either the next Henry Ford or the next P.T. Barnum. Musk’s explosive tweets reverberate…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/19/2018

The fine folks at the State Policy Network deserve well-earned congratulations on the completion of yet another successful annual meeting, this year co-sponsored by…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/18/2018

In retail, as in every industry, eras come and go. Few recent events mark the passing of an era like the announced bankruptcy of…

Business and Government

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 10/18/2018

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been making a convincing case for a swift and condition-free approval from regulators of the proposed Sprint and T-Mobile…

Antitrust

• By: Myron Ebell
• 10/16/2018

We are sad to note the death of our good friend and strong ally, David Henderson, on September 30th in London.  After a career as…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 10/16/2018

The Competitive Enterprise Institute views most market failure rationales for government intervention as wrong, overstated, or unproven (or all of the above). The Competitive Enterprise Institute…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/12/2018

The Heartland Instituted cited CEI’s “Ten Thousand Commandments” annual survey and Fellow Ryan Young’s “REINing in Regulatory Overreach” article.   “Ten Thousand Commandments” is the Competitive Enterprise…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/10/2018

This week the State Policy Network is holding its legendary annual meeting, this time in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. With hundreds of delegates from…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/10/2018

Both of this year’s economics Nobel laureates have been on the short list for some time. Both are deserving, as David Henderson writes in…

Business and Government

• Melissa A. Holyoak
• 10/09/2018

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and four individuals – John France, Daniel Frank, Jean-Claude Gruffat, and Charles Haywood – filed an appeal today with the…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/05/2018

Yesterday the good folks at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) held an important and timely event on the future of antitrust policy. The splotlight…

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/05/2018

Government Executive cited CEI’s Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on Trump administration deregulation. The topic is of great interest to the conservative…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/28/2018

Our creative friends at the Independent Institute in California are back with an entertaining new video series that pokes fun at some of the…

Business and Government

• By: Hans Bader
• 09/28/2018

The Daily Caller cited former CEI’s Senior Attorney Hans Bader on California female quotas. “It seems more likely that companies’ success leads to…

Business and Government

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 09/28/2018

Small Business Trends cited CEI’s Policy Analyst Trey Kovacs on NLRB proposed rule change. Labor policy analyst Trey Kovacs of The Competitive Enterprise…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/21/2018

Free speech protections in the United States are pretty far reaching, including protections for commercial free speech and occupational free speech. If you…

Business and Government

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 09/20/2018

In a joint letter released this week, thirty free market groups urged House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) to oppose “any effort to expand…

Antitrust

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 09/14/2018

The Daily Caller cited CEI’s Policy Analyst Trey Kovacs on NLRB’s Joint-Employer Standard proposal.  “The NLRB’s proposed rule seeks to restore longstanding principles on what establishes…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/11/2018

Tariffs hurt more people than they help. So why do those outnumbered few keep winning so many political victories at the majority’s expense? The answer…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/31/2018

Our friends at the Cato Institute have a great new promotional video for the latest edition of their annual Freedom in the 50…

Business and Government