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Supreme Court ruling on social media age verification isn’t the final word: CEI analysis
The Supreme Court today in an emergency ruling declined to block Mississippi from enforcing an age-verification law imposed on nine social media platforms. The trade group…
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Latest Producer Price Index numbers show a 0.9 percent increase, tariffs to blame: CEI analysis
July’s Producer Price Index (PPI) numbers show a 0.9 percent increase in final demand prices, up 3.3 percent over the past 12 months. CEI…
The Daily Economy
The Founders Would Be Appalled by Trump’s Tariff Policy—Even Hamilton
President Trump has, it is clear, upended the global trading system and America’s place in it through his aggressive use of tariffs as a tool…
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Failure is Not a (Government) Option
At his press conference on the debt ceiling negotiations, President Obama lamented that he’d rather “be talking about stuff that everybody welcomes, like new [government]…
Op-Eds
Put a Ceiling on Overregulation
President Barack Obama may have inadvertently revealed one area of common ground with the Republicans during his recent news conference laying out sharp differences with…
Citation
Obama Ideology All the Way Down
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President Obama Doesn’t Know the First Thing About Economics
As the Oscar buzz surrounding actress Meryl Streep keeps growing — thanks to her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher, it’s worth remembering one of the real…
Daily Caller
10 Questions with ‘Stealing You Blind’ Author Iain Murray
Daily Caller
Immelt Met by Protestors: ‘Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Cronyism Has Got to Go!’
Daily Caller
Protestors Disapprove of Immelt’s Keynote Speech on Creating Jobs
New York Post
O’s Subsidymobiles
New York Post
Is the Stimulus Creating Jobs, or Killing Them?
New York Post
Condemning Our Children to Live in ‘Greece’
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its latest edition of the Long-Term Budget Outlook, and it makes for grim reading. The assessment needs to…
New York Post
ATMs the Root of Unemployment?
New York Post
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
