Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 01/21/2007

If you were watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings Thursday, chances are you didn't see it coming. Senator Arlen Specter was questioning Attorney…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/16/2007

Issues in the News   1. CONGRESS The House of Representative approves legislation requiring the government to negotiate lower…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/15/2007

Should free market advocates oppose a plan aimed at lowering prescription drug costs? Generally, no. But, when such a plan involves the flexing…

Antitrust

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 01/15/2007

Ed Begley Jr. had an image problem. Hollywood is lousy with so-called activists, but he's a genuine back-to-the-land environmentalist and something of a…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/11/2007

Issues in the News   1. CONGRESS New Democratic congressmen warn Speaker Pelosi to stick to a politically moderate…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff
• 01/10/2007

Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute releases its policy recommendations for the new leadership on Capitol Hill: This Liberal Congress Went to…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff
• 01/10/2007

DO…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/10/2007

Issues in the News   1. CONGRESS The House of Representatives meets today to debate an increase in the…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 01/09/2007

Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute releases its policy recommendations for the new leadership…

Antitrust

• By: Achim Schmillen, Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/08/2007

WASHINGTON – With a stop-off in Nashville, Tenn., in December, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continues a series of hearings debating government’s role in determining…

Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott, Stub
• 01/08/2007

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   A recent General Motors ad campaign is a real letdown.

Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 01/07/2007

Imagine that you are a social worker. You open the local paper the day after Christmas to find one of those stories that editors…

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 01/02/2007

As Democrats take power in Congress, speculation has swirled around the question of why Republicans lost. But there is a factor – a…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/02/2007

Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY The Federal Communications Commission gives its unanimous final approval to the merger of AT&T…

Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 12/28/2006

Most obituarists portrayed President Gerald Ford as a humble man with few ambitions, a great conciliator, a political moderate, an all around nice…

Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 12/26/2006

President Bush has several strengths, but negotiating with Congress isn't one of them. He wants to come across as the Goldilocks president. As he said…

Business and Government

• By: Steven J. Milloy
• 12/21/2006

Flu fearmongers must be quite depressed these days. Seasonal flu is late. Bird flu – despite all the headlines – hasn’t gained much traction…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 12/21/2006

Issues in the News   FINANCIAL REGULATION A U.S. District Court hears arguments in the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Free Enterprise Fund’s…

Antitrust

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/20/2006

It's a cliche of politics that the name of a proposed bill or initiative depends largely on its name. (More on this later.)It's…

Antitrust

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 12/20/2006

To the naked eye, a hike in the federal minimum wage looks like a done deal. Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi will include it in the…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 12/19/2006

MEDIA ADVISORY <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = st1…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 12/18/2006

Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252   Washington, D.C., December 19,…

Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 12/17/2006

Nearly 7 million copies of Time magazine's annual “Person of the Year” issue are set to arrive in mailboxes and on newsstands in…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/15/2006

Issues in the News   1. TECHNOLOGY Big technology companies lobby Washington for data privacy legislation. CEI Experts Available…

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/13/2006

Some say online virtual reality operations like “Second Life” have attained the stage of evolution that blogging and the Net itself occupied several…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/13/2006

Issues in the News   1. INTERNATIONAL The European Union approves a new law, known as “REACH,” regulating the manufacture…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 12/12/2006

Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273   Washington, D.C., December…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 12/12/2006

Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., December 13, 2006—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to provide meaningful…

Antitrust

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/11/2006

Economic liberalism faces a multi-front assault, an assault that has been underway for decades but that has intensified in recent years.  As discussed in the…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/11/2006

Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Tech companies lobby for federal data privacy regulation. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President…

Antitrust

• By: Steven J. Milloy
• 12/10/2006

The New York City Board of Health this week banned the use of trans fats by restaurants. The decision is directly traceable back to…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/08/2006

Issues in the News   1. ENVIRONMENT Scientists predict an intense hurricane season for 2007. CEI Expert Available to…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/07/2006

The war to advance economic liberty will last forever. The effort is frustrating and often discouraging. Many freedom fighters burn out, retire from the field,…

Antitrust

• By: Hans Bader
• 12/07/2006

The editorial “A Different Race Case” argued that Seattle’s use of race in assigning students to schools should be upheld by the Supreme Court…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 11/21/2006

Sir, Martin Wolf's attempted defence of the Stern report (“After the arguments, the figures still justify swift climate action”, November 15) completely fails to…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 11/16/2006

Though I never met him, Milton Friedman, who has died aged 94, was one of the earliest influences on my political development. In…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/15/2006

Issues in the News   1. BUSINESS Wal-Mart plans a price-cutting blitz for the holiday shopping season. CEI Expert…

Antitrust

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 11/14/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   John Tierney's Tuesday column began innocently enough. He…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 11/13/2006

Washington, D.C., November 14, 2006—Reform of the onerous Sarbanes-Oxley accounting mandates was a winning issue for Democratic and Republican candidates in the election of 2006,…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 11/12/2006

Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was etablished, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes…

Business and Government

• By: Isaac Post
• 11/12/2006

Recently, the celebrity gossip blog, DMZ, took a swipe at celebrities “who claim they’re green, but guzzle gas”.  George Clooney, among others,…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/07/2006

Issues in the News   1. TECHNOLOGY Verizon and YouTube near a deal to bring web videos to cell…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/06/2006

Issues in the News   1. ENVIRONMENT Delegates to a United Nations global warming conference defend the U.S. record…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 11/03/2006

Full Document Available in PDF…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/03/2006

Issues in the News   1. INTERNET Delegates to a United Nations conference on Internet governance complain of “too much”…

Business and Government

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 11/02/2006

In a recent letter to ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and John Rockefeller (D-WV)…

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 10/31/2006

This election season, much of the GOP’s difficulties stem from the disaffection of conservative talk radio. For the past two years, while supporting…

Business and Government

• By: Jeremy Lott
• 10/27/2006

WednesdayVermont is cold. That message will be repeated several times Wednesday night but it's bleeding obvious from the minute I step out of…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/13/2006

1. INTERNET      President Bush prepares to sign a bill effectively banning Internet gambling. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice…

Business and Government

• By: Timothy Carney
• 10/11/2006

WASHINGTON – We’re still figuring out who knew what and when about former Florida Rep. Mark Foley’s behavior toward pages, but the disgraced…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/11/2006

Issues in the News   1. BUSINESS        The Justice Department approves the merger of AT&T and BellSouth Corp., leaving the decision…

Antitrust

• By: Isaac Post
• 09/29/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> While the antics of Canada's left-wing, anti-Israel ideologues have been…

Business and Government

• By: Isaac Post
• 09/16/2006

It’s the beginning of the fall semester and MBA programs across the world are preparing students to become good business leaders.

Business and Government

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 09/15/2006

A clinical trial that went badly awry at London's Northwick Park Hospital in March became the drug-testing community's worst nightmare. Six healthy volunteers ended up…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 09/15/2006

It's a familiar experience for many moviegoers: You walk out of a theater scratching your head, wondering why a movie was given a…

Business and Government

• By: Steven J. Milloy
• 09/14/2006

Did the use of performance-enhancing drugs cause seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong’s testicular cancer? That’s what a Sports Illustrated columnist suggested this…

Business and Government

• By: Steven J. Milloy
• 08/24/2006

“Just a few extra pounds could mean fewer years, study finds,” headlined a front-page, above-the-fold story in the Washington Post this week. The…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/07/2006

Full document available in PDF America’s national hotel chains are bracing for union trouble. The UNITE-HERE labor union thinks it has found…

Business and Government

• By: Hans Bader
• 06/30/2006

Back in 1999, in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, the Supreme Court laid down a test for when sexual harassment rises to…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/27/2006

Issues in the News   1. FINANCE The Senate Finance Committee considers the nomination of Goldman Sachs chairman Henry Paulson…

Antitrust

• By: Hans Bader
• 06/26/2006

Last Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that a worker alleging retaliation for complaining about discrimination may sue even if she has not suffered a…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 06/14/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Big government, pro-regulation groups like MoveOn.org want the…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff
• 06/13/2006

Full Document Available in PDF The undersigned organizations would…

Business and Government

• By: Timothy Carney
• 06/12/2006

In one of the least surprising developments of 2006, a Louisiana politician has been snared in a corruption scandal. Democratic Congressman William Jefferson has…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, John Berlau
• 06/08/2006

Members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, now say that Sarbanes-Oxley can be unduly burdensome on business. The law that, in…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 06/08/2006

Washington, D.C., June 8, 2006—Congress is scheduled to vote on a plan for putting the federal government in charge of regulating Internet traffic,…

Antitrust

• By: Isaac Post
• 05/21/2006

by Isaac Post | May 21, 2006 David Vogel’s The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility offers…

Business and Government

• By: Timothy Carney
• 05/19/2006

Senator Schumer is on a roll. After coasting to an easy and well funded re-election in 2004, the senior senator from New York is…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/19/2006

Issues in the News   1. ENERGY The House of Representatives rejects a proposal to allow offshore drilling for natural…

Antitrust

• By: John Berlau
• 05/18/2006

How many Objectivists are there among television actresses? Well, there is one for sure: Tracey Ross of NBC’s popular soap opera “Passions.” As you…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 05/16/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., May 16, 2006— Consumer, taxpayer, humanitarian and public policy groups sent a letter today,…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/16/2006

Overview. Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted by the agreed science or economics of the issue. Global warming is happening…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 05/15/2006

Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252                    [email protected] Washington,…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/11/2006

The European emissions trading scheme (ETS) was launched with great fanfare last year. The idea was to require certain energy-intensive industries to have a…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/10/2006

Issues in the News   1. ENERGY Companies pour billions of dollars into ethanol production to meet demand…

Business and Government

• By: Isaac Post
• 05/09/2006

Budgets and softwood lumber deals aren't Prime Minister Stephen Harper's only significant initiatives. On Friday, he followed through on an unfortunate promise he…

Antitrust

• By: Timothy Carney
• 05/08/2006

Pity poor Eddie Rickenbacker. His life so closely resembled the clichéd “American Dream,” that you can't blame him for buying into American mythology.

Antitrust

• By: Peter Suderman
• 05/08/2006

America has developed a proud paternal bond with the Internet.  We’ve watched and cheered the Net’s growth from its awkward, text-heavy infancy into…

Antitrust

• By: Gregory Conko
• 05/08/2006

The long-awaited World Trade Organization (WTO) decision on biotech food is due to be released this spring, but a leaked copy of the…

Antitrust

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/08/2006

Sugar is already shaping up to be a contentious issue in upcoming debates on the 2007 omnibus farm bill. The call for dismantling…

Antitrust

• By: Sam Kazman
• 05/08/2006

Violations of the Constitution come in all shapes and sizes.  Many of you may be familiar with the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), which CEI…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/08/2006

Animal rights extremists—whom the FBI has labeled America’s biggest domestic terrorism threat—have encountered a number of serious reverses recently. These reverses are a great victory…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff
• 05/08/2006

Full Document Available in PDF New Era, or ‘Ancien Régime,’…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/08/2006

Issues in the News   1. LEGAL State attorneys general ask the Supreme Court to step into a dispute over the states’ 1998…

Antitrust

• By: Isaac Post
• 05/06/2006

Fast-food gadfly Eric Schlosser has a new book out. Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food is Fast…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/05/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  Issues in the News   1. HEALTH…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 05/04/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Reps. Melissa Hart and Anna Eshoo have introduced H.R. 5114, the Tax Return Choice Act of 2006,…

Antitrust

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 05/02/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Nearly…

Business and Government

• By: Myron Ebell
• 04/28/2006

As public anger over soaring gas prices continues to build, members of Congress have noticed that their re-elect numbers continue to go down. …

Antitrust

• By: Steven J. Milloy
• 04/28/2006

Amid the race between politicians to capitalize on consumer anger at high gas prices, at least one member of Congress, Rep. Marsha Blackburn…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 04/28/2006

  Contact:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252    Washington, DC, April 28,…

Antitrust

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 04/26/2006

The cover of Time magazine’s April 3, 2006 issue tells readers to “be very worried” about climate change. The issue features a “special report” on…

Business and Government

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 04/24/2006

Vaccination to prevent viral and bacterial diseases is modern medicine's most cost-effective intervention. Vaccines to prevent the expected avian flu pandemic could save…

Antitrust

• By: Timothy Carney
• 04/20/2006

The Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), a federal agency that subsidizes U.S. exports primarily through loan guarantees, dedicated a majority of its guarantee dollars again…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 04/20/2006

Animal rights extremism—which the FBI has labeled the biggest domestic terrorism threat—has encountered a number of serious reverses recently. These reverses are a…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/19/2006

Issues in the News   1. TECHNOLOGY Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington State and meets with Microsoft…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/18/2006

Issues in the News   1. LEGAL Payments from tobacco companies to states are found to have been diverted away…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/17/2006

1. TELEVISION TV networks challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s indecency fines in court. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/15/2006

Reforming telecommunications law is a favored subject in the halls of Congress this year. Hot issues include streamlining video franchising and addressing the "net…

Antitrust