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Want higher air fares? Overregulate credit cards
This morning, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Transportation are holding a joint hearing “investigating” airline and credit card reward programs.
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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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Melugin Letter To The FTC
December 5, 2000Robert PitofskyChairmanThe Federal Trade Commission600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20580 Dear Chairman Pitofsky: Recently, Amazon.com contacted its…
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Dec. 2000 UpDate Cover Story: Buying Nothing Helps No One
While most Americans celebrated blessings material and spiritual on Thanksgiving, the anti-consumer movement united to celebra While most Americans celebrated blessings material and…
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…Until They Know You Care
The recent election results suggest that if classical liberals,libertarians and conservatives, and free-market advocates want From the December issue of CEI…
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Kemp: An Open Letter to Alan Greenspan
Dear Mr Published November 27, 2000 Distributed by Copley News Service Dear Alan: …
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Economic Mischief
While everyone watches Florida as we attempt to choose the next president of the United States, we shouldn’t forget that we still have a very active,…
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Paging the New Congress: Demand-Driven Spectrum Reform at the FCC
On November 9, the Federal Communications Commission announced new plans for the distribution of the electromagnetic spectrum used by wireless communications companies. The…
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Tax Reform is Green, “Green” Taxes Aren’t
Full Document Available in PDF “Tax Reform” has become an empty…
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Civic Virtue, Civic Vice: Jack Kemp’s Nationally Syndicated Column
Published November 13, 2000 Published November 13, 2000 Distributed by Copley News Service Headline: Civic Virtue, Civic Vice …
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The Despairing Optimist: To the Victor the Spoils?
The Despairing Optimist: Friday afternoon (post-election) November 10, 2000 Who will be our next President? It’s still up in…
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Memo to the President-elect: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Published November 6, 2000 Published November 6, 2000 Distributed by Copley News Service Headline: Memo to the President-elect…
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No Fool For Microsoft
Next February, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will sit en banc for two days to hear the appeal of United States…
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Prisoners of K Street
From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate…
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The Culture of Fear: A Reader’s Guide
From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate Sixty-eight years ago, Franklin…
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Christmas Gift Book Ideas
From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate Tis the Season to have to shop for all your friends and…
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CEI Book Reviews: David Friedman’s Law’s Order
From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate Law’s Order: What Economics Has To Do With Law And Why It Matters…
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Death, Taxes, and a Government Sponsored Postal Monopoly
From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate Think the government-granted monopoly the United States Postal Service holds is an outrage?…
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Odds & Ends: Gus Hall–Revolutionary, Duffer, Angler; Orwell in the Apple; Wacky Patacki; Bubble-Headed Cher
From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate SOW BLOODY REVOLUTION, THEN HIT THE LINKS! Legendary Communist Party USA…
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CEI Book Review: Lessig’s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace Lawrence Lessig Basic Books · 1999…
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Scare Tactics Won’t Work: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Published October 30, 2000 Published October 30, 2000 Distributed by Copley News Service Headline: Scare Tactics Won’t Work …
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Prosperity in the Balance: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Published October 23, 2000 Published October 23, 2000 Copley News Service Headline: Prosperity in the Balance …
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High Tech Industry Suffers When Companies Curry Federal Favors
Delong Op-Ed on Tech Central Station. This week I was talking with Roger Cochetti, vice president of Network Solutions and experienced observer of…
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Arafat’s Diplomacy In Extremis: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Politics Nationally syndicated column Distributed by Copley News Service October 16, 2000 Headline: Arafat’s Diplomacy In Extremis…
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Antitrust Threat to New Technologies: Pieler Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in the Washington Times <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> October 16, 2000 Nothing…
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Put a Lid on Antitrust Zealots: Pieler Deseret News Op-Ed
Published in the Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Distributed by Scripps Howard…
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It’s Not Class War, It’s Marriage: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
The vice presidential debate between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman was a fabulous discussion between two statesmen, two good friends of mine and two distinct…
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How Environmentalism Kills the Poor: Roger Bate
Every day Dr. Lizette du Plessis, one of three doctors at the company clinic of Mozal, the state of the art aluminum smelter near Maputo…
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Gore Debatable: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer The presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. With the race coming down to the line, they…
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Delay is Not a Four-Letter Word: Gattuso Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in the Washington Times <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> October 2, 2000 …
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Supreme Court Gives Reality A Chance To Catch Up To Politics: DeLong Op-Ed
Distributed by Bridge News Service<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> September 29, 2000 Headline: By…
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Feds Should Make Web Cookie Crumble: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle P-I
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Distributed by Copley News Service<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> September 27, 2000…
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Amazon.com Puts Consumers in Control: Melugin in TechCentralStation.com
Published in TechCentralStation.com<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> September 25, 2000 …
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Habitat for Humanity Builds Dreams: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer September 20, 2000 In the years since I…
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Foreign Policy a Crucial Issue: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer September 13, 2000 As the presidential campaign heads into…
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Nader Has the Courage to Fight a Totem
The vice president is worried about Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Robert Kennedy Jr. summed up his concern nicely: “Nader’s candidacy could siphon votes…
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Got a Computer? More Power To You: Mills/Huber Op-ed in Wall Street Journal
It takes electrons to move bits Published in the Wall Street Journal September 6, 2000 It takes electrons to move bits. The…
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Prohibition, Privacy & Protection: The Real Online Gamble
From the August/September 2000 issue of CEI UpDate. On August 10, Jay Cohen was sentenced to 21 months in prison and a $5,000 fine. His…
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An Instant Message to AOL’s Competitors
From the August/September 2000 issue of CEI UpDate In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues…
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Publicity Value of Having Someone Do a Take-Off on Your Commercial: Priceless
Last week, MasterCard filed a $5 million law suit against Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign for piggybacking on its “Priceless” ad series. …
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Kemp — A Decade Lost: 10 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, What Went Wrong?
In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues surrounding the America Online/Time Warner merger From the August/September…
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Odds & Ends: Hannibal Regulator; Greenpeace Hitting Bottom; Nutty for Nader; Cabbage or the Gettysburg Address?
In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues surrounding the America Online/Time Warner merger From the August/September…
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Stick to the Facts, Mr. President: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 23, 2000, Wednesday Vice…
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Privacy Precepts Learned the Hard Way: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
For recently bankrupt Toysmart.com, trying to liquidate its customer information database has been more like playing with matches than children’s toys. Last week’s…
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Lieberman Makes Good Republican: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 16, 2000 A couple of weeks ago in this…
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Republicans Reclaiming Blacks: Kemp Op-Ed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
…And The Party Is Doing It By Reclaiming The Legacy The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln …And The Party Is Doing It By…
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Opening Supply Side Doors: Kemp on Dick Cheney
Published in The Washington Times Published in The Washington Times August 3, 2000 Richard B. Cheney, George…
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Double-Click For Consumers: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> August 1, 2000 “We…
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Free Money: Campaign Finance “Loopholes” are the Best Part of the System: DeLong Article in Reason Magazine
Published in Reason Magazine Published in Reason Magazine August 2000 Once again we are preparing to choose federal, state,…
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Child Online Protection Act Won’t Protect Our Children: Alban Op-Ed in Idaho Statesman
Published in The Idaho Statesman July 20, 2000 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Who could be…
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Revitalizing Urban America: Cleaning up the Brownfields
Full Document Available in PDF Despite Washington’s…
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Protecting Privacy on the Internet: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in the Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> July 5, 2000 The…
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Kemp — Real Tax Reform First: Don’t Tackle Net Taxation until We Overhaul the System
More than 100 million American adults now use the Internet, up from 65 million in mid-1998 and 84 million at the end of 1998. …
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Politics & Privacy
New developments in the online-privacy debate are threatening to push federal and state bureaucrats’ desire for regulatory control to critical mass. Not only…
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CEI Bookshelf: Political Environmentalism
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM Going Behind the Green Curtain Edited by Terry Anderson Hoover Institution Press (2000) Softcover, $19.95…
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Odds & Ends: PETA Notes; Government Gaffes; High Tech Divorce?
PACKING IT IN The sensitivity monitors at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are taking their crusade to the world of…
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Fed Up. . . or Well Served by Fannie and Freddie?
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CEI Statement on the Microsoft Case
Washington, DC, June 7, 2000 – Today’s Microsoft verdict represents an unjustified assault on the information revolution and the welfare of consumers, in favor…
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James Gattuso Reviews “Winners, Losers and Microsoft”
Artemus Ward once remarked that the problem with the world isn’t what we don’t know: “It’s the things we know that just ain’t…
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Monomania
While on a recent trip to Seattle, I was tempted to ride on the local religious icon – the monorail relic from the…
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The Peaceable Kingdom
A recent meeting between Christian Right leader, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, and gay rights activists, the Reverend Mel White, suggests that America may…
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Odds & Ends: Hot XXX Insider Trading; Paul Newman’s Own Green; Gilder’s Wisdom; A Sunny Mourning
50 EGGS IN AN HOUR 50 EGGS IN AN HOUR? UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED! Hollywood legend Paul Newman hosted a fundraiser in…
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CEI Book Review: The Way the World Works
The Way the World Works 20th Anniversary Edition by Jude Wanniski Introduction by Robert Novak Gateway Books…
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest online privacy report, released last month, calls for federal regulation of the way Internet companies collect and use…
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet: How Privacy-Protecting Technologies Have Rendered Regulation Unnecessary
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest online privacy report, released earlier this week, calls for federal regulation of the way Internet companies collect and…
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Internet Taxation: Why Wyden Won’t Wash
View Full Document as PDF After only three weeks of what apparently passes for congressional deliberation these days, the Internet tax…
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10,000 Commandments — New Report Details REAL Cost of Government
Washington, DC, May 9, 2000 – As last minute filers rushed to finish their taxes and write their checks to the government recently, Congress…
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Internet Taxation: Controversy Likely to Continue
Less than a month after the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) delivered its report to Congress, the House Judiciary Committee has passed a…
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Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee Statement on Regulatory Restructuring
Washington, DC, May 5, 2000 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee concludes that the two main objectives of any restructuring of insurance regulation…
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Judge Greene of the 21st Century?
The Justice Department’s plan was simple. Just break up the company into separate firms, based upon product lines. The parts with monopoly or bottleneck…
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Development Bankruptcy
World Bank/IMF Protestors Had the Right Idea, But For the Wrong Reasons The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are…
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Dazed and Confused: Protestors Blame the Market for Government Abuses
The protests in Washington, DC, ignited by the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attracted a wide array of…
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Drop the Limits! Limits on Foreign Technology Workers Hurt America
The technology sector accounts for close to one-third of the productivity growth in today’s economy, but the pool of qualified American tech workers…
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Odds & Ends: Airhead Leo; Customers Getting Irate?; Sprawling Mistakes; Ministry for Self Esteem
End Notes for the May issue of CEI UpDate WHO’S THE MAYOR OF LOUISIANA, ANYWAY? The intellectual heir to Raquel Welch appears…
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George Allen Gives Keynote Address at CEI Annual Dinner
Former Virginia Governor George Allen gave the keynote address at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual Warren Brookes Dinner on April 27, 2000.
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Bust Up Microsoft? CEI Weighs In
Statement of James L. Gattuso, Vice President, and Clyde Wayne Crews, Director, Competition and Regulation Policy, April 28, 2000 “The extreme plan…
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What I Saw At Earth Day 2000
CEI sent Kendra Okonski to roam the Mall in Washington, DC, on Earth Day 2000. Here is her dispatch from the front…
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Dinner To Honor Memory Of Legendary Writer
Washington, DC, April 24, 2000 – Former Virginia Governor George Allen is scheduled to give the keynote address Thursday at the 6th annual…
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Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee issues statements on Commercial Insurance Deregulation, Workers’ Comp, and Electronic Comm
Washington, DC, April 19, 1999 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee issued three statements of consensus today, concerning commercial insurance deregulation, workers’ compensation…
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Anti-Trust Law For Dummies
There's a secret to anti-trust law, but learning it isn't likely to reassure a high tech investor pondering the implications of the Microsoft verdict. The…
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The US versus Microsoft: Winners and Losers — Melugin Op-Ed in Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Let Consumers – Not the Government – Play Favorites…
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Microsoft Stands Up for Consumers and Innovation
Washington, DC, April 3, 2000 – Consumers and the Competitive Enterprise Institute today praised Microsoft for refusing to sell out consumers’ interests by settling…
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California, Here They Come
Last month, I briefly visited the San Francisco Bay area. I’ve been in the region numerous times during the past few years, and each…
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Are Most Americans Dirty? The League of Conservation Voters Thinks So
Is your congressman “pro-environment” or “anti-environmental” Is your congressman "pro-environment" or "anti-environmental"? Every year, the League of Conservation Voters tries to answer that…
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Odds & Ends: Toe Sucking Advice; Nader’s Right?; Deputy Undersecretary for Hot Sauce
GO GREEN, AL! Disgraced political consultant Dick Morris has weighed in with advice to the vice president on how to win in November:…
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Internet Sales Taxation: Beyond the Moratorium
The Internet sales tax debate has been between the National Governors Association’s proposal to grant states the power of remote taxation and the…
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Antitrust Not On Internet Time: Microsoft Remedies Discount Serious Competitive Threats
Many have come to believe that the technology industry requires strict governmental policing of allegedly anti-competitive behavior. But today’s software and Internet companies…
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Privacy Disclosure Requirements: Boon or Bane?
View Full Document as PDF Après Reg P: Le Deluge–You’ve Got (Lots of) Mail The booming US economy demonstrates the…
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Public Interest Group Hails Supreme Court Snuff-Out of FDA Tobacco Regs
Washington, DC, March 21, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauded today’s Supreme Court invalidation of the Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to regulate…
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Rocket Fuel for Tech Stocks
Delong Op-Ed in Tech Central Station Last week, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair harrumphed about ownership rights in human genetic research, and biotech…
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Institute Proposes ‘Golden Rule’ of E-Commerce
Washington, DC, March 20, 2000 – “I urge the Advisory Commission of Electronic Commerce to do the right thing this week and oppose taxation…
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What On Earth Is Going On? CEI vs. Worldwatch, Round 1
Ron Bailey, science correspondent for Reason magazine and a former CEI Warren Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism,…
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Keep Internet Privacy Privatized
The Federal Trade Commission announced to some fanfare recently it would be investigating various health care Web sites, along with Internet advertising agency DoubleClick,…
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The Gore Report: Leo the Lip; Neglected Tuna; Altoids, Anyone?
Lock Up the Gore Girls! Leonardo DiCaprio came out of the political closet last month and announced he is a passionate supporter of Al…
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Odds & Ends: Eunuchs & Soybeans on the March; Bloody Valentines; USPS Down for the Count
Cut Them Off at the Halls of Power Wire reports recently indicated that the latest political story out of India is the entrance…
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Don’t Tax the Net: Fred Smith in Economic Affairs
Published in Economic Affairs, the journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Edited…
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CEI’s Fred Smith is Marketing the Market
Full article available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Navigator: CEI was founded in…
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Jump, Jive an’ Reform Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF Cost-benefit analysis has long been a centerpiece of regulatory…
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New Study Provides “How-To” Guide for Regulatory Reform
Washington, DC, February 29, 2000 –A new report released today by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) called for congressional approval of all major regulations…
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I Want My Antitrust! MTV Experiences Government’s Peculiar View of the Real World
I Want My Antitrust! MTV Experiences Government’s Peculiar View of the Real World In December, the antitrust…
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Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
- Consumer Freedom
- Deregulation
Richard Morrison
Senior Fellow
- Antitrust
- Business and Government
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Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
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- Business and Government
Ryan Young
Senior Economist
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