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

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/14/2006

Issues in the News 1. FINANCE An adviser to the Securities and Exchange Commission suggests that the SEC will be receptive…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 04/13/2006

Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252  …

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 04/13/2006

Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252  …

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/13/2006

For more than two decades, the willingness of policy makers to rethink the presumption that economic regulation automatically benefits consumers has driven the deregulation of…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/12/2006

Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Google defends its business ventures in China. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President…

Antitrust

• By: Peter Suderman
• 04/11/2006

The French climate of economic sluggishness and widespread unemployment has led to a pervasive restlessness. Many—especially the youth—have taken to rioting, striking, and…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., R.W. Grant
• 04/11/2006

  In the 108 years since the passage of the Sherman Act, there has probably never been a clearer and more concise statement of the…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/11/2006

Issues in the News   1. TECHNOLOGY The government of France tries to force Apple to hand over information about their iTunes…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/10/2006

Issues in the News   1. INTERNET ABC announces a free two-month trial access to its most popular shows…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff
• 04/07/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Chairman Barton: As…

Business and Government

• By: Steven J. Milloy
• 04/06/2006

My web site JunkScience.com celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2006. To mark the event, this column spotlights…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 04/04/2006

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

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 04/04/2006

Washington, D. C. 4th April 2006 Hon. Pete V. Domenici Chairman and Hon. Jeff Bingaman Ranking Minority Member Committee…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 03/30/2006

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: Myron Ebell
• 03/29/2006

Robert D. Novak's March 23 op-ed column, “Iraq's Oil Crisis,” highlighted one result of the Bush administration's decision to retain nationalized ownership of the…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 03/28/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  Few industries are more demonized than Big Tobacco. From…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 03/28/2006

Contact: Jody Clarke, 202-331-2252 Washington, D.C., March 29, 2006—While the Department of Transportation touts higher fuel economy standards for light trucks, including SUVs, a fuel…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/27/2006

Issues in the News   1. LEGAL An arbitrator is expected to rule today on a lawsuit brought by major…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 03/27/2006

Issues in the News   1. LEGAL An arbitrator is expected to rule today on a lawsuit brought by major tobacco…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 03/26/2006

Contact:     <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/24/2006

Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT A study in the journal Science predicts rapid sea level rise from the effects of global warming…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/23/2006

“People shouldn’t fear their governments, governments should fear their people.” This line from the movie V for Vendetta seems to have convinced libertarian luminaries…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/23/2006

During the Capitol Hill budget debates, many spectators must have found the use of the term “earmarking” somewhat strange.  What does it have…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 03/22/2006

Like it or not, comic books are no longer the domain of nerds and adolescents. Driven by the box-office success of adaptations of…

Business and Government

• By: Brooke Oberwetter
• 03/22/2006

When Christopher Buckley’s novel Thank You for Smoking came out in 1994 it was a surprising satire of the vilification of the tobacco…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/21/2006

Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Ethanol producers could face problems during the summer driving season when demand is expected to…

Business and Government

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 03/20/2006

“New Drugs Hit the Market, but Promised Trials Go Undone” and “FDA: Drug Companies Drop Ball on Studies,” the headlines blared.

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 03/20/2006

President Concedes Moral High Ground on Energy by Myron Ebell "America is addicted to oil." With these five words in…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2006

If you wanted to lower electric energy prices in the US, what would you do? If you answered, “Cripple the domestic railroad industry,” you'd…

Antitrust

• By: John Berlau
• 03/17/2006

I grew up here in Kansas City, on the Kansas side, Johnson County. Ewing Kaufman left the Kaufman Foundation as his legacy, along with many…

Antitrust

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/17/2006

Death closes so many books that are still being written. A book that was closed over the holidays was the Bill Bradford volume. Bill was…

Business and Government

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/17/2006

On February 9, the Competitive Enterprise Institute helped file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a federal agency…

Antitrust

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/15/2006

In Monty Python’s classic "Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch, a Hungarian tourist walks into a British tobacconist’s shop, and, consulting a faulty phrasebook, tells…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 03/15/2006

Contact: Richard Morrison, 202-331-2273 Washington, D.C., March 16, 2006—As the U.S. Senate considers an important budget resolution, the Competitive Enterprise Institute urges…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/15/2006

Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Delta airlines plans to terminate its pension plan and seek salary concessions amid a struggle…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/13/2006

Is there a point at which societal change moves so fast that some people not only do not see it, but emphatically deny…

Antitrust

• By: Timothy Carney
• 03/12/2006

Some people accuse George W. Bush of seeing the world in simple terms, black-and-white, good-and-evil. He has been quoted as saying, “in Texas,…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/08/2006

Issues in the News   1. BUSINESS Democrats in the House of Representative announce a legislative agenda for spurring innovation…

Business and Government

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/07/2006

In 2001, the energy giant Enron unexpectedly filed for bankruptcy, laying off 4,000 of its employees and consuming the life savings of thousands more. In…

Antitrust

• CEI Staff
• 03/07/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., March 8, 2005—The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauds the House Democrats’ Innovation Agenda…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 03/05/2006

Washington, D.C., March 6, 2006—AT&T’s announcement that it will merge with Bell South is a pro-competitive move that will benefit consumers, says <?xml:namespace…

Business and Government

• By: Isaac Post
• 03/02/2006

A Friday conference at the American Enterprise Institute will try to answer the question: "Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Serious Business?" And not…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/02/2006

WASHINGTON—The Jack Abramoff scandal has many individual players, but it’s also added fuel to an older and broader theme—the quest to purge politics of money.

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2006

Issues in the News 1. E-COMMERCE AOL proceeds with plans to charge a “postage” fee for mass senders of email.

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/28/2006

Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Civil rights leader Andrew Young joins the steering committee of the group Working Families for…

Antitrust

• By: Myron Ebell
• 02/27/2006

Full Document Available in PDF…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/27/2006

Issues in the News   1. INTERNET A federal court ruling on copyright could undermine Google’s Book Search program.

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 02/23/2006

If you thought al Qaeda or Iraqi insurgents were the major threats facing America, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) says you’re wrong. According to Dent,…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/22/2006

Issues in the News   1. SUPREME COURT The nation’s highest court hears a constitutional challenge to the Clean Water…

Business and Government

• By: Henry I. Miller
• 02/16/2006

There was good news last month on both sides of our northern border: In response to confirmation of an isolated case of bovine…

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 02/14/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., February 15, 2006—The future of video content online could begin today in the Senate…

Business and Government

• By: Timothy Carney
• 02/12/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />The federal budget is too big. It's way too big. George W. Bush has called for total…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 02/09/2006

Issues in the News   1. BIOTECHNOLOGY The World Trade Organization rules against European restrictions on genetically modified foods.  CEI…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 02/08/2006

Issues in the News   1. GLOBAL WARMING Evangelical leaders come out in favor of mandated carbon dioxide emission cuts. …

Business and Government

• CEI Staff
• 02/07/2006

WHAT:  Sarbanes-Oxley was rushed into law in 2002 with good intentions following unprecedented corporate scandals.  Yet, elements of Sarbanes-Oxley now serve as classic examples…

Antitrust

• By: Peter Suderman
• 02/07/2006

Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS A Verizon Communications executive blasts Google for freeloading on Verizon infrastructure as Congress prepares to debate…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/01/2006

Issues in the News   1. STATE OF THE UNION   President Bush calls for more federal spending on alternative energy sources,…

Business and Government

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 01/30/2006

Full Document Available in PDF The December 2005 Montreal “COP-MOP” Kyoto…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/29/2006

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  In senior editor Dave Astor's article on syndicated columnists and their sources of…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/24/2006

Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The Food and Drug Administration approves fat-blocking drug Xenical for over-the-counter sales.

Business and Government

• By: Isaac Post
• 01/23/2006

The businessman puts the cash in an envelope. He leaves it on the agreed upon restaurant table. Another man, a government bureaucrat, walks over…

Antitrust

• By: Isaac Post
• 01/23/2006

In yesterday’s Canadian election, the new Conservative Party swept into power for the first time since 1993. Paul Martin and the Liberals, it turns…

Business and Government

• By: Peter Suderman
• 01/22/2006

Americans love channel surfing, and many spend their evenings flipping through the vast ocean of inexpensive programming available through cable television packages. But…

Antitrust

• By: Timothy Carney
• 01/22/2006

Although it may be heresy for a libertarian or a conservative to say, I really like living in Washington. I try to be grateful every…

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 01/16/2006

Back in June, when New York Times reporter Judith Miller was about to go to jail on contempt charges for refusing to testify…

Antitrust

• By: Zachary Courser
• 01/16/2006

Although Wal-Mart has been America's largest retailer since 1990, the company has only recently begun expanding into California, and the reaction from many quarters has…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/12/2006

Issues in the News 1. ECONOMICS Offical plans for rebuilding New Orleans draw harsh criticism from local homeowners. CEI Expert Available…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/06/2006

Issues in the News   1. TECHNOLOGY Frequently-fined radio host Howard Stern makes his much-anticipated move to satellite broadcasting next…

Business and Government

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/05/2006

Senator Hillary Clinton traveled 6,000 miles to dramatize the need for faster medical device approvals. Hard to believe, isn’t it? In fact, Sen. Clinton…

Business and Government

• By: Braden Cox
• 01/05/2006

Simply uttering the phrase “Internet governance” is enough to make some people cringe with visions of Big Brother. But Internet governance is not—and shouldn’t be—some…

Antitrust

• By: Isaac Post
• 01/05/2006

Standing alongside U2 lead singer Bono in March 2002, President Bush announced the formation of a “new compact for global development, defined by new accountability.”…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 01/05/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Europe’s Global REACH: Chemical Regulations…

Antitrust