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Regulators right to approve Capital One/Discover merger
On Friday, federal financial regulators made the right decision in approving the merger of Capital One and Discover. In their joint approvals of the merger,…
Forbes
Trump Reforms Die Without An Abuse-Of-Crisis Prevention Act
Amid frustrations with interventionist elements of the Trump agenda—such as tariffs and revived antitrust zeal—many have nevertheless been encouraged by the renewed…
Citation
Happy Hour May No Longer Be So Happy
The American Spectator cited CEI’s expert tariffs Economists aren’t surprised that the alcohol industry is talking about price hikes. “Tariffs are a tax,” said…
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ATMs the Root of Unemployment?
Citation
Upton: House Will Vote to Bring Back the Bulb
Daily Caller
Regulators Should Regulate Economy, Not Intervene In It
Just as surely as summer is followed by autumn, it seems that these days every proposed corporate merger is followed by antitrust complaints —…
New American
Regulating Jobs to Death
The New American discusses Wayne Crews's study on the size of the federal regulatory burden. A much more somber rendering of the regulatory…
New American
Obama Urges Use of Foreign Capital Boost
New American
Liberate ATMs and Credit Unions to Jumpstart Jobs
“ATMs don’t destroy jobs,” tweeted Davd Burge of the Iowahawk blog in response to Obama’s now-infamous “Today Show” explanation of unemployment. “Politicians who…
New American
Overdrawn at the Ideas ATM
President Obama recently blamed today’s high unemployment on… automation. Yes, you heard at right. He singled out automatic teller machines (ATMs), which he…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Set free our risktakers
The Pittsburg Post-Gazette references Wayne Crews's article on the cost of federal regulations. Businesses must spend more than $1.75 trillion each year to…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Bailout a bust?
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
What the Boeing Company Teaches about Right to Work
Boeing celebrated the completion of its final assembly plant for the Dreamliner 787 aircraft in North Charleston, South Carolina, today. Boeing’s $1-billion investment…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
GOP’s ‘Durbin Dozen’ Keeps Dodd-Frank Price Controls
Anywhere but the Senate, getting 54 votes out of 100 is a victory. And Wednesday, a bipartisan group of 54 Senators responded to concerns from…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Let’s Face the Truth: The Stimulus and Bailouts Failed
You’d think last Friday’s terrible jobs numbers would cause honest elected officials to admit that their economic policies have failed. They would tell the American…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
To Stimulate Economy, End Predatory Abuse Of Antitrust
Among numerous steps needed to stimulate a double-dipping economy, one is to make antitrust not pay anymore. AT&T’s $39 billion merger with T-Mobile (a…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Nobody for Commerce Secretary
In choosing John Bryson as his nominee to be the next U.S. secretary of commerce, President Obama has chosen a perfect representative of our new…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Obama’s Funny Auto-Jobs Math
‘The auto industry has added 113,000 jobs over the past two years.” So proclaimed President Obama in his speech Friday at the Chrysler-Fiat…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Watchdog questions GM bailout repayment
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
The Plan to Spin the Car Bailout as a Positive for Obama
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Deregulation Now!
Today’s much weaker than expected employment numbers show that the president’s agenda of more regulation and increased spending has undoubtedly failed. However much…
Study
The Battle for Michigan
Full Document Available in PDF Michigan’s economy has been weakening for years as the Big Three…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Obama Admin. Knew GM Lied About Paying Back Taxpayers
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Barack Obama, Democrats Call the Auto Bailouts A Success, But Did They Work?
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Vincent Vernuccio on Official Time
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses unions using taxpayer money for their own organizational activities.
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Real Beneficiaries of the ‘Stimulus’
It was depressing but not surprising to read that tax cheats received $24 billion in stimulus money (“Stimulus recipients found to be tax cheats,” Page…
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Washington Declares War on Debit Cards
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Banking On National Economic Suicide
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
The Value and Price of College
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
The Political Principal/Agent Problem
If business is to address its conflicts with an expanding government, it must ensure that its external relations departments are well managed. To do…
Center of the American Experiment
Eisenhower’s Second Farewell Warning
President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address includes one of the most quoted phrases in political rhetoric. He warned “against the acquisition of influence, whether sought…
Center of the American Experiment
Liberals Attack Paul Ryan Because He Received Benefits When His Father Died Young
Center of the American Experiment
Why Does Capitalism Enjoy So Little Support From Politicians?
As government grows, businesses try to adapt, often by opening government affairs offices in Washington. Yet the regulatory burden continues to increase as public attitudes…
News Release
Center-Right Groups Support Halting Dodd-Frank Debit Card Price Controls
For Immediate Release CONTACT: John Berlau (202) 331-2272 Lee Doren 202-331-2259 5 APRIL 2011 Washington, D.C., – 33 national and state-level think tanks, advocacy groups,…
News Release
H-1B Visa Reform: Open the Door to Highly Skilled Foreigners
Contact: Lee Doren: 202-331-2259 Washington, D.C., March 31, 2011 — The top immigration panel in the House of Representatives will examine the H-1B visa program…
News Release
Sen. Lugar’s Bill to Repeal U.S. Sugar Program to Benefit Consumers, Economy, Developing Countries
Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 March 30, 2011, Washington, D.C. – Legislation introduced today by Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) marks a bold step towards repealing the…
Center of the American Experiment
This Saturday Celebrate, Don’t Lament, Human Achievement
Human beings must exploit the environment. It is how we survive—and thrive. We don’t have claws or fur. We don’t live in trees or burrow…
Center of the American Experiment
Corporations Aren’t People But They Are (Legal) Persons
Center of the American Experiment
Trashing the children
Center of the American Experiment
Needless Educational Credential: the JD
Center of the American Experiment
Bloggers Debate the Budget Deficit and Egypt’s Future
From Journalism.org: “If a motto summed up the Obama presidency, it might be, ‘Life is short. Eat dessert first,'” wrote Hans Bader at…
Center of the American Experiment
‘Time to Rethink’ Education Funding
Center of the American Experiment
Obama budget: Life is short, eat dessert first
Center of the American Experiment
Is the TSA More Interested in Airport Security Or Supporting Unions?
Center of the American Experiment
Fred Smith on the Future of the Automobile
CEI President and Founder Fred Smith appeared on a panel at the 2011 Washington Auto Show to discuss the…
Center of the American Experiment
Ex-Congressman Gets Soapbox for Violent Remarks (Letter to the Editor)
Liberal columnists like Paul Krugman have sought to scapegoat conservatives for the recent shootings in Tucson. But the shooter was once described as a “liberal…
Center of the American Experiment
The Left’s Fetish With Its Own Paranoid Hatred
Center of the American Experiment
The Authoritarian Media
Center of the American Experiment
If At First You Don’t Succeed. . .
Center of the American Experiment
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…
Center of the American Experiment
How Far Does an Education Take You?
Center of the American Experiment
Time to Cut?
Center of the American Experiment
Time to Slash Federal Education Spending
Center of the American Experiment
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…
Center of the American Experiment
Surfeits of Certitude
Center of the American Experiment
Time for Big Cuts in Education Spending?
Center of the American Experiment
When Spending More Doesn’t Help. . .Spend Even More?
Study
Protect and Enhance Federalism
Full Document Available in PDF The Framers of the Constitution intended federalism to act as…
Study
Study and Understand Corporate Social Responsibility
Full Document Available in PDF Congress should study the confusion created in the…
Center of the American Experiment
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…
Center of the American Experiment
Undoing College
Study
Encourage Innovation in Credit Availability
Full Document Available in PDF The abuses of the subprime crisis have made it…
Study
Recognize the Value of Hedge Funds and Private Equity for Entrepreneurs and Shareholders
Full Document Available in PDF Hedge…
Study
Roll Back Burdensome Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Rules
Full Document Available in PDF “How can we have these levels of fictions…
Study
Make Accounting Regulators Accountable
Full Document Available in PDF The flawed valuation models for subprime securities have once again…
Study
Curb and Phase Out Taxpayer-Funded Corporate Bailouts
Full Document Available in PDF Many Republicans and Democrats…
Study
Reform U.S. Agriculture Programs
Full Document Available in PDF With America facing a lengthy and possible deep recession and…
Study
Rein in the $1 Trillion Regulatory State
Full Document Available in PDF From transportation to trade, from communications to banking…
Study
One Nation, Ungovernable?
Full Document Available in PDF As both political parties wrangle over economic stimulus packages and…
Study
Championing Economic Liberty in a Time of Crisis
Full Document Available in PDF Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s incoming…
Center of the American Experiment
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…
Center of the American Experiment
Food Safety: Why Is the Food Safety Bill So Controversial?
Center of the American Experiment
Judge to Obamacare architects: Ahem. Meet the Constitution, power-grabbers.
Center of the American Experiment
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…
Center of the American Experiment
Feds Use New Tool to Target Ex-CEO
Center of the American Experiment
McDonald’s Obesity Class Action Dismissed
Center of the American Experiment
You Won’t Believe What You Paid for GM Bailout
Center of the American Experiment
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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…
Center of the American Experiment
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…
Center of the American Experiment
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,…
Center of the American Experiment
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
News Release
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
Study
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
