Business and Government

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 06/12/2019

Yesterday’s filing by ten state attorneys general to block the proposed merger of wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint is the latest threat to the innovations…

Antitrust

• By: Sean Stewart
• 06/11/2019

Capitalism’s critics claim that the pursuit of profit can become like a black hole, consuming all of our attention and energy at the expense of culture.

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/06/2019

An Axios article today examines for-profit companies taking public positions on controversial political issues, carrying the headline “When companies act like governments.” Reporter Erica Pandey…

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 06/05/2019

Fox Business cites Senior Fellow John Berlau on new SEC broker standards.  “Hopefully, the new rules will protect investors from fraud and deception…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/04/2019

June is Pride Month, when gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and other not-straight people celebrate with a variety of events, including activism, parades, and concerts. As…

Business and Government

• Clyde Wayne Crews
• 06/03/2019

Today, House Democrats launched antitrust investigations into prominent technology companies, including Facebook, Google and potentially others.

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 06/03/2019

Revelations that antitrust enforcers have conspired to divide jurisdiction and initiate antitrust investigations into Google and Apple (the U.S. Department of Justice) and Amazon and…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/31/2019

Gender discrimination is a complex problem with a complex solution.

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/31/2019

Our friends at the Atlas Network have an excellent new video out about legal reform in India that is helping small businesspeople stand up to…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/30/2019

The main impression I’ve gotten from much recent reporting on the ethical behavior and social responsibility of business is that its value depends greatly on…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/24/2019

Recently I was in the audience for an interesting panel discussion, hosted by the Federalist Society, on corporate social responsibility. Should corporate managers only work…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/22/2019

I recently reviewed the book “Alienated America” by Washington Examiner editor Timothy Carney, and I’d like to return to one of the observations he made…

Business and Government

• Jessica Melugin
• 05/20/2019

Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Chairman Ajit Pai will circulate a draft order urging fellow commissioners vote to approve the merger between Sprint…

Antitrust

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 05/20/2019

Today the Federal Communications Commission signaled it will likely vote to approve the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile.

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/20/2019

Antitrust policy is corporate welfare, a prominent illustration of how regulation, not just spending, enables and encourages transfers of wealth by force.

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/20/2019

I wrote up some initial impressions about the new book on business ethics, “Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society,”…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/17/2019

Congratulations to mobile food vendors Benny Diaz and Brian Peffer—and their attorneys at the Institute for Justice—for scoring a victory for freedom of food commerce…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/16/2019

My colleague Wayne Crews has already slammed the White House for a first step towards government regulation of online speech in its “tech bias” complaints…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/14/2019

If President Trump’s trade war has a single takeaway, it is this: Raising tariffs is an ineffective bargaining strategy. When the U.S. raises its tariffs,…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/13/2019

For the past couple of years I’ve been emphasizing the usefulness of an executive order from President Donald Trump on regulatory "guidance documents" to bridge the gap…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/10/2019

Earlier this week I had the good fortune to spend some time at the historic Mayflower hotel here in Washington, D.C. attending the Federalist Society’s 7th…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/09/2019

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, former publisher of The New Republic, argues in a long essay for The New York Times that the company should be…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/03/2019

Next week the Senate is expected to vote on new board members for the Export-Import Bank, which gives favorable financing terms to foreign governments and…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 05/01/2019

To many classical liberals (or libertarians), it is primarily the individual’s right of self-defense that is delegated to a government. We cannot unilaterally commence the…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/26/2019

“The universe is finite, its resources finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist.” With those simple words, the Marvel supervillain Thanos…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/25/2019

The New Civil Liberties Alliance hosted a very interesting event this week, as part of its “Lunch and Law” speaker series, featuring remarks by Hudson…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/25/2019

Both parties are making antitrust regulation a 2020 campaign issue. Neither President Trump nor most of the Democratic candidates are proposing improvements. Over at the…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/22/2019

I’ve been reading a new book on business ethics, “Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society,” and it has some…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/19/2019

It’s an old argument: as population increases and we use up more of the earth’s natural resources, everything is become more scarce. Soon the pressures…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/17/2019

Antitrust regulation is a complex, multifaceted issue. It brings together insights from law, economics, political science, history, philosophy, and other disciplines. Right now both political…

Antitrust

• Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 04/16/2019

The Competitive Enterprise Institute today released a report making the case that government use of antitrust law to break up big companies has a chilling…

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 04/16/2019

Politicians and pundits across the ideological spectrum often call for greater competition in the marketplace. While their favored means vary widely, the view that current…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/12/2019

At a time when big tech companies are being attacked over bigness, privacy, elections, and the ordering of their news feeds, the Charles Koch Institute…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/05/2019

Tim Carney’s new book on social alienation and U.S. politics, “Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse,” raises the bar for Trump-era political…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 04/04/2019

In a bleak take on the sharing economy, Atlantic writer Alexis C. Madrigal says it has created a “servant economy,” where sharing economy platforms provide…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 04/02/2019

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s motto used to be “Move fast and break things.” Now that his company is under increased political scrutiny—and facing calls for…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/29/2019

Our friends at the Foundation for Economic Education have a new video that gives a great short introduction to entrepreneuship, and what businesspeople actually do…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/22/2019

At a time when socialism seems determined to crawl back from the dustbin of history, it can be a challenge defending the moral legitimacy—and humanity—of…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/14/2019

The Washington Times cited Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray on CEI’s video, “Antitrust Explained.” Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren is among those who…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/13/2019

With major political figures proposing the forced breakup of some of the nation’s most successful companies, the once-arcane field of antitrust law is now at…

Antitrust

• Iain Murray
• 03/13/2019

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today launched a new video, “Antitrust Explained,” disputing recent calls by politicians and academics to use antitrust laws and regulations…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/08/2019

Given that it is International Women’s Day and almost CEI’s 35th anniversary, today is an excellent day to celebrate the impressive legacy of economist (and…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 03/06/2019

The deterioration of the principle of separation of powers is a signature feature of the powerful federal Administrative State. This corrosion is accompanied by a…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2019

Our friends at the Federalist Society are back with a new video on the gig economy, “Here to Stay: The Modern World of Hospitality,” examining…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/19/2019

From classical liberal and individual rights perspectives, the administrative state is an affront to liberty almost by definition.

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/15/2019

Our old friend (and former CEI Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow) Tim Carney has a new book out, “Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/14/2019

My colleagues have written elsewhere about the energy and environmental components of the “Green New Deal” proposals that have been enthusiastically agreed to by most…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/13/2019

It seems like an odd coincidence that legendary American political cult figure Lyndon LaRouche would pass away the same week that the Green New Deal…

Business and Government