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Biden’s veto of joint employer rule CRA a blow to small businesses
President Biden’s veto Friday of a Congressional Review Act (CRA) bill rolling back the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) “joint employer”…
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Subsidy-free capitalism may require a constitutional amendment
Automobiles, electrification, ample consumer goods and mass marketing, a construction boom, and access to credit helped fuel the Roaring Twenties of a century ago.
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Free the Economy podcast: Frontier economics with Kendall Cotton
In this week’s episode we cover the diamond jubilee of the Philadelphia Society, the cost of government regulation in the UK, the…
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Financial Stability Council Violates the Constitution (Letter to the Editor)
C. Boyden Gray’s Dec. 31 Washington Forum commentary, “Wall Street reform that flouts the law,” rightly criticized the secrecy, unchecked bureaucratic power and constitutional…
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How Far Does an Education Take You?
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Time to Cut?
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Time to Slash Federal Education Spending
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What Will Really Make Us Fat In the New Year
Your New Year’s resolution might involve diet and exercise but according to news sources that might not shrink your waistline. Reporst say man-made chemicals called…
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Surfeits of Certitude
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Time for Big Cuts in Education Spending?
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When Spending More Doesn’t Help. . .Spend Even More?
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Protect and Enhance Federalism
Full Document Available in PDF The Framers of the Constitution intended federalism to act as…
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Study and Understand Corporate Social Responsibility
Full Document Available in PDF Congress should study the confusion created in the…
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The Enemy Within
In the early 1980s, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher emerged victorious from a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands that propelled her to a…
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Undoing College
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Encourage Innovation in Credit Availability
Full Document Available in PDF The abuses of the subprime crisis have made it…
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Recognize the Value of Hedge Funds and Private Equity for Entrepreneurs and Shareholders
Full Document Available in PDF Hedge…
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Roll Back Burdensome Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Rules
Full Document Available in PDF “How can we have these levels of fictions…
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Make Accounting Regulators Accountable
Full Document Available in PDF The flawed valuation models for subprime securities have once again…
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Curb and Phase Out Taxpayer-Funded Corporate Bailouts
Full Document Available in PDF Many Republicans and Democrats…
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Reform U.S. Agriculture Programs
Full Document Available in PDF With America facing a lengthy and possible deep recession and…
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Rein in the $1 Trillion Regulatory State
Full Document Available in PDF From transportation to trade, from communications to banking…
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One Nation, Ungovernable?
Full Document Available in PDF As both political parties wrangle over economic stimulus packages and…
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Championing Economic Liberty in a Time of Crisis
Full Document Available in PDF Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s incoming…
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GM Bad Deal
In his 1953 confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense in the incoming Eisenhower administration, former General Motors CEO Charles “Engine Charlie” Wilson was asked how…
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Food Safety: Why Is the Food Safety Bill So Controversial?
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Judge to Obamacare architects: Ahem. Meet the Constitution, power-grabbers.
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Obama’s GM Numbers Are Not Adding Up
Before Thanksgiving, President barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden did a victory lap at friendly venues across the country in the wake of the…
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Feds Use New Tool to Target Ex-CEO
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McDonald’s Obesity Class Action Dismissed
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You Won’t Believe What You Paid for GM Bailout
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Coaliton Letter on Credit Union Regulatory Relief
Full Document Available in PDF Along with this letter please find a new advertisement, signed…
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Was Prohibition Repealed?
This Sunday, December 5, many people will raise their glasses and celebrate Repeal Day — the anniversary of the end of Prohibition, a day when…
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The Jobs O Hates
For all his talk of job creation, President Obama has targeted many occupations for extinction. Using un-elected bureaucrats to implement a host of job-killing measures,…
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More Thoughts on the College Debt Bubble
Cafe Hayek
Ryan Young advises that you not allow the IRS to prepare your tax filings
Cafe Hayek
Federal workers will still receive raises despite pay freeze
Among the many suggestions for deficit reduction in the recently released Fiscal Commission report is a 15 cents-per-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax. This…
Cafe Hayek
Obama’s Claims About Auto Jobs
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EU Antitrust Investigation Into Google Will Hurt Consumers
Washington, D.C., November 30, 2010 – Today, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google to probe allegations that the firm rigged…
Cafe Hayek
Vincent Vernuccio on TSA Unions
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses the possibility of a union for the TSA.
Cafe Hayek
Vincent Vernuccio on Consumer Responsibility
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses Black Friday…
Cafe Hayek
Vincent Vernuccio on GM Thanksgiving ad
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses the GM commercial thanking the American people for their public bailout…
Cafe Hayek
GM Shares Are Artificially Inflated (Letter to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to note that General Motors’ supposed “success story” is actually a money-loser for taxpayers. Not only did GM’s recent sale of…
Cafe Hayek
What’s Good for New GM Is Bad for the Rest of America
Cafe Hayek
Trimming the Fat
Bastiat Institute
No Sense in Maryland’s “Dime-a-Drink” Tax Increase
Bastiat Institute
GM Raises $20 Billion in IPO
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An Issue of Science and Economics
Full Document Available in PDF Abundant and affordable energy is one of the great boons of…
Bastiat Institute
GM’s Stock Offering Goes Well, But Some See Nothing to Cheer
Bastiat Institute
Does FDA’s Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage Ban go too Far?
Bastiat Institute
Rewriting the Rules of Capitalism
Bastiat Institute
Obama includes Toyota, Hyundai and Kia in 75,000 jobs “created” by GM bailout
President Barack Obama and his administration have cited numerous job statistics after last week’s successful initial public offering of General Motors. John Berlau, director of…
Bastiat Institute
Halfway Between Sanity and Bedlam
Bastiat Institute
What’s Good for GM Is Now Terrible for America
Bastiat Institute
What’s Good for GM Is Now Terrible for America
In his 1953 confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense in the incoming Eisenhower administration, former General Motors CEO Charles “Engine Charlie” Wilson was asked how…
Bastiat Institute
Wall Street to GM: Let’s Put Those Bad Days Behind Us
Bastiat Institute
Agencies Target ‘Blackout in a Can’
AOL News
Court Should Kill California’s Video Game Law
Free expression in the digital age faces a major test before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier this month, the court heard oral arguments debating the…
AOL News
GM selling at a loss should tell you something
When a government sells stock in a company, it is usually trying to maximize short-term revenue. Therefore, the share price is normally pegged at what…
AOL News
Immigration law a threat to Texas competitiveness
Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, made headlines recently for prefiling an Arizona-style immigration law called HB 17. An Arizona-style anti-immigration law would be…
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Protest San Francisco’s Happy Meal Ban – While You Still Have a Choice
Washington, DC., November 16, 2010—The Competitive Enterprise Institute invites you to consider taking your family to McDonald’s for Happy Meals on Saturday, November 20th, to…
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FDA’s Caffeine Power Grab
Washington, D.C., November 17, 2010: The Competitive Enterprise Institute today called a pending FDA ban on caffeinated-alcoholic beverages a misguided and arbitrary extension of…
AOL News
Bill Would End Right to Work in All States
Samuel Gompers, the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor, once said, “There may be here and there a worker who for…
AOL News
Cap-and-tax is Dead but Kyotoism is Alive and Well at the EPA
Cap-and-tax may be dead in Congress but the Kyoto agenda of stealth energy taxes marches on at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Although the Clean…
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Debbie Riddle’s Arizona-Style Immigration Law Would be a Disaster for Texas
Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle made headlines last week for introducing an Arizona-style immigration law called HB 17. An Arizona-style anti-immigration law would be…
National Center for Policy Analysis
Instant Reform: Measure the Hidden Tax of Regulation
The National Center for Policy Analysis discusses Wayne Crews's research on what Congress should do about the growing size of the regulatory state.
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FDA’s Graphic Warnings for Cigarettes: Noble Ad Campaign or Nanny State at Work?
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Minn.’s Pawlenty Ups Challenge to Fed Health Law
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Pawlenty Seeks to Add Voice to Health Care Suit
Politico
Tim Pawlenty Joins Health Bill Lawsuit
Politico
Instant Reform: Measure The Hidden Tax Of Regulation
If Congress doesn’t grapple with the regulatory state, this economy can’t regain footing. You don’t have to tell the grass to grow; you simply have…
Texas Insider
An End to Out-of-State Beer?
Washington Times
Cigarette Warnings to be More Graphic?
Associated Content
National Deficit Commission: Eliminate Commercial Space Subsidies
NCPA
An End to Out-of-State Beer?
US News
Tobacco Settlement Could Go to the Supreme Court
NCPA
The Problem with Public-Private Partnerships
NCPA
A Union Pension Bailout During the Lame Duck Season in Congress?
NCPA
Tobacco settlement — A pinnacle of coroporate-government collusion — faces challenge in Supreme Court
NCPA
The Election’s Over, So Let’s Get Back to Business
President Obama recently warned that the current high unemployment could be “a new normal” in the United States. If his administration doesn’t change course…
Investors' Business Daily
Tax Preparers Shouldn’t Get IRS Favors
Taxes are big business. And not just for the federal government, which collects over $1 trillion per year in income tax revenue alone. Because the…
Investors' Business Daily
Many Threats Loom in Lame-Duck Session
LaCrosse Tribune
GOP Shift in House Not Likely to Affect Farmers
LaCrosse Tribune
Democrats Support Yet Another Bailout
LaCrosse Tribune
Big Labor May Still Reap Benefits Despite Election Losses
Organized labor’s fears were realized Tuesday when Republicans won a decisive majority in the House, almost eviscerated the Democrat majority in the Senate and picked…
Las Vegas Review Journal
Reining in the regulatory state
The Las Vegas Review-Journal discusses Wayne Crews's research on the size of the federal regulatory state. Congress passed and the president signed into law…
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Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom
Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom Fred L. Smith, Jr. President, Competitive Enterprise Institute Written Remarks For the…
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The 2010 Union Pension Bailout Bills
Get ready to give some of your hard-earned cash – again – to the cronies of Congress who are pushing for yet another bailout. Two…
Las Vegas Review Journal
Contrarian Says U.S. Needs More H-1B Workers
Daily Caller
A Giant Awakens?
Yesterday’s election could be the start of something grand — but not because Republicans won the House. Many of the Obama administration’s policies, including…
Daily Caller
Contrarian Says U.S. Needs More H-1B Workers
Daily Caller
Unions are Hijacking our Democracy
Daily Caller
It’s Time To Regulate The State
Think about what’s about to happen, if we don’t stop it. Crushing regulations loom thanks to unpopular health care and financial reform legislation. An ambitious…
Daily Caller
Why I Didn’t Vote
The last time I voted was in 2002. And once again, after careful thought, I decided to sit this one out. There are lots…
Cigar Magazine
Menthol Wars
Full Document Available in PDF So cool. So refreshing. So politically endangered. They’re…
Cigar Magazine
Think Tank Opposes Caps, Fees, Time Limit on H-1B Visas
One News Now
New Regulations Beyond EPA’s Control
One News Now
Prospects for U.S. Internet Gambling Post-Midterm Elections
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has been pivotal in efforts to legalize Internet gambling in the United States. In 2007, he introduced the first of several…
One News Now
Virginia Lawmakers Aren’t Entitled to Liquor Revenue (Letter to the Editor)
It is long past time for Virginia to shake its state monopoly on liquor sales, and it’s a shame that we’ll have to wait until…
One News Now
Fireman Strikes in Our Future
One News Now
Virginia Lawmakers Aren’t Entitled to Liquor Revenue
It is long past time for Virginia to shake its state monopoly on liquor sales, and it’s a shame that we’ll have to wait until…
One News Now
Fannie & Freddie Don’t Deserve Any More Tax Dollars (Letters to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to oppose more taxpayer bailouts for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are expected to receive between $73 billion and $215…
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Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
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Richard Morrison
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- Business and Government
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Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
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- Aviation
- Business and Government
Ryan Young
Senior Economist
- Antitrust
- Business and Government
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