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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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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…
News Release
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…
News Release
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…
AOL News
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.
Fox News
FDA’s Graphic Warnings for Cigarettes: Noble Ad Campaign or Nanny State at Work?
Google News
Minn.’s Pawlenty Ups Challenge to Fed Health Law
Google News
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…
Study
Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom
Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom Fred L. Smith, Jr. President, Competitive Enterprise Institute Written Remarks For the…
Study
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…
One News Now
Morning Scan – Free Checking
One News Now
The Free Checking Restoration Act
Having largely abandoned attempts to defend ObamaCare in the run-up to next week’s election, President Obama and his allies are now warning that opponents will…
One News Now
The End of Free Checking?
One News Now
H-1B Visas: A Case for Open Immigration of Highly Skilled Foreign Workers
American Spectator
The Nobel Case for Immigration
Only 1 in 20 people on earth live in America. But Americans won 4 of 11 Nobel prizes this year. Last year, it was…
American Spectator
Union Campaigns Against Fast Food Industry Should Concern Young Workers and Consumers
Infrastructurist
TIGER II Proposals Already Under Attack by Auto Interests
Infrastructurist
Free Checking – How ‘Bout Them Democrats
Infrastructurist
Victimizing Victimless “Criminals” for Fun and Power
Infrastructurist
SEC ‘Proxy Access’ Rule Could Empower Unions, Political Activists
Infrastructurist
Obama’s War on Free Checking
“Free checking as we know it is ending,” says the lead paragraph of a widely read and tweeted story from The Associated Press. Noting…
Infrastructurist
Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Champions Renewable Fuel Standards
Study
H-1B Visas: A Case for Open Immigration of Highly Skilled Foreign Workers
To bring workers they need into the United States, American companies sponsor their H1-B work visas. The rapid pace of technological and scientific development is…
Letters
Coalition Letter Against the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit
Full Document Available in PDF To Members of the United States Congress: …
Wall Street Journal
Ray LaHood: The Man With the Money
Wall Street Journal
The Free Checking Restoration Act of 2010
Wall Street Journal
CEI: Open Borders to High Skilled Workers
Wall Street Journal
Biofuel or Bust? Ethanol Subsidies Should be Dropped
The long struggle to make ethanol a viable and relevant auto fuel in America got a boost recently from the Environmental Protection Agency, but allowing…
Wall Street Journal
The GM IPO
Wall Street Journal
What Democrats Are Hiding & Why They’re Really Scared
Wall Street Journal
Armageddon: What Democrats Are Hiding & Why They Are Really Scared
News Release
Experts Urge Michigan’s Next Governor to Reform Insurance Regulations
Contact: Lee Doren, 202-331-2259 Washington, D.C., October 19, 2010 – Michigan’s next governor has his work cut out for him. It is no secret that…
Study
Joint Letter to DOE on Transferable Credits
Products
MCI’s Layered Approach: A Horizontal Leap Nowhere
Wall Street Journal
Pension Insanity in France
CIO
Mobile phone bill shock: FCC, carriers face off
PC World
Mobile Phone Bill Shock: FCC, Carriers Face Off
PC World
Spirits Industry Engaging in Special-Interest Manipulation
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told the Salt Lake City Tribune that a representative of the National Beer Wholesalers Association drafted his recent congressional…
PC World
Delaying Foreclosures Only Adds to Pain
Federal housing promotion policies over-stimulated the supply and demand for housing and that destabilization continues. Efforts to make home ownership a “human right” are partly…
PC World
The Firemen Next Time
“So the question is, do you want to live in the kind of society in which this happens?” So wrote New York Times columnist…
National Center for Policy Analysis
Tyranny of the Unelected
The National Center for Policy Analysis discusses Wayne Crews's article called "Tyranny of the Unelected." Congress passed and the president signed 125 bills…
Broadband For America
Wayne Crews: Unnecessary FCC Regulation Would Deter Broadband Innovation
Broadband for America reports on Wayne Crews's opinion editorial on net neutrality. Competitive Enterprise Institute Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews has published…
Broadband For America
Antitrust: America’s Unfortunate Export
Scholars, journalists, bureaucrats and lawmakers persist in viewing the body of antitrust law as serving the public interest. They still believe in monopolies apart…
Broadband For America
Tyranny of the Unelected
Congress passed and the president signed 125 bills into law in 2009. Your tireless federal regulatory agencies were even busier: They issued 3,503 rules and…
Broadband For America
How Obama is Invading Your Home
The Obama administration isn’t satisfied giving the American public vast things we don’t want — from stimulus packages to bailouts to ObamaCare: It’s a…
Broadband For America
Ms. Warren Should Take Aim at Confusing Federal Laws (Letters to the Editor)
Todd Zywicki is right to criticize President Obama for appointing a consumer-lending czar without submitting the appointment to the Senate for an up-or-down vote…
Overlawyered
Bucks County, PA plans to ticket people who forget to lock their cars
Overlawyered
Fishy Business
Last week, I critiqued Ron Arnold’s story about the “catch share” program being instituted in New England, saying that free-market environmentalists should support Individual…
Overlawyered
Burn Baby Burn?
The recent case in Olbion County, Tennessee, where municipal firefighters watched a house burn to the ground because the residents had not paid a…
Overlawyered
Raise the H-1B visa cap
Rupert Murdoch’s and Michael Bloomberg’s testimony Thursday on Capitol Hill about immigration reform missed one timely and important mention. October 1st marks the beginning of…
Overlawyered
The Green Agenda
Forbes
The Expanding State
Forbes highlights a statement from Wayne Crews on the expanding state. [President] Obama’s economic program fundamentally consists of fostering a compulsory “Declaration of…
Forbes
GM Admits to No Repay of Bailout
Products
Uncle Sam Wants to Cuddle
We have heard much recently about the “Europeanization” of America, particularly in the context of socialized health care or expanded environmental regulation. Yet few have…
Forbes
SEC “Proxy Access” Rule Could Empower Unions, Political Activists and Undermine Investors
Forbes
Washington Ideas Forum
Study
Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB: Narrow Separation-of-Powers Ruling Illustrates That the Supreme Court Is Not ‘‘Pro-Business’’
Full Document Available in PDF Chief Justice John Roberts has often been depicted as an advocate of narrow rulings and a judicial philosophy…
Products
Bill Would Mandate Equal Pay for Unequal Work (Letter to the Editor)
Diana Furchtgott-Roth was right to criticize a bill that would require some people who do unequal work to be paid equal amounts. The perverse “Paycheck…
Forbes
Why Is Congress So Afraid of Mail Order Wine?
The quest by wine and beer wholesalers to maintain their “middleman” role within the liquor industry is simply bad news. A bill making its way…
Forbes
An Annoying Regulation for Every Room in the House
Forbes
Obama’s Energy Regulations on Household Appliances Sparks Cost Debate
Forbes
Response to How Would GOP’s ‘Pledge’ Affect Economy? – Pledge Takes On Overregulation
Though much of the commentary on the GOP’s “Pledge to America” has forcused on the areas of taxes and spending, the provision that may contain…
Forbes
Pledge Takes On Overregulation
Though much of the commentary on the GOP’s “Pledge to America” has forcused on the areas of taxes and spending, the provision that may contain…
Washington Examiner
