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Free the Economy podcast: Climate policy endangerment with Marlo Lewis
In this week’s episode we talk about tariff refunds, Affordable Care Act subsidies, Ryan Young’s Books of the Year for 2025,…
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Third quarter 2025 GDP growth impressive despite tariff burden: CEI analysis
After a shutdown-related delay, the initial estimate for third quarter GDP is in – a strong 4.3 percent growth. That’s impressive in the midst of…
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California and EU’s Climate Disclosure Policies Face Major Setbacks
As we close out 2025, corporate leaders in the US should breathe a sigh of regulatory relief. On top of the deregulatory spree that many…
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Bailout a bust?
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Watchdog questions GM bailout repayment
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The Plan to Spin the Car Bailout as a Positive for Obama
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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…
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The Battle for Michigan
Full Document Available in PDF Michigan’s economy has been weakening for years as the Big Three…
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Obama Admin. Knew GM Lied About Paying Back Taxpayers
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Barack Obama, Democrats Call the Auto Bailouts A Success, But Did They Work?
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Vincent Vernuccio on Official Time
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses unions using taxpayer money for their own organizational activities.
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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…
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Washington Declares War on Debit Cards
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Banking On National Economic Suicide
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The Value and Price of College
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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…
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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…
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Liberals Attack Paul Ryan Because He Received Benefits When His Father Died Young
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Corporations Aren’t People But They Are (Legal) Persons
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Trashing the children
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Needless Educational Credential: the JD
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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…
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‘Time to Rethink’ Education Funding
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Obama budget: Life is short, eat dessert first
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Is the TSA More Interested in Airport Security Or Supporting Unions?
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Fred Smith on the Future of the Automobile
CEI President and Founder Fred Smith appeared on a panel at the 2011 Washington Auto Show to discuss the…
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Ex-Congressman Gets Soapbox for Violent Remarks (Letter to the Editor)
Liberal columnists like Paul Krugman have sought to scapegoat conservatives for the recent shootings in Tucson. But the shooter was once described as a “liberal…
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The Left’s Fetish With Its Own Paranoid Hatred
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The Authoritarian Media
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If At First You Don’t Succeed. . .
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Financial Stability Council Violates the Constitution (Letter to the Editor)
C. Boyden Gray’s Dec. 31 Washington Forum commentary, “Wall Street reform that flouts the law,” rightly criticized the secrecy, unchecked bureaucratic power and constitutional…
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How Far Does an Education Take You?
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Time to Cut?
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Time to Slash Federal Education Spending
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What Will Really Make Us Fat In the New Year
Your New Year’s resolution might involve diet and exercise but according to news sources that might not shrink your waistline. Reporst say man-made chemicals called…
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Surfeits of Certitude
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Time for Big Cuts in Education Spending?
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When Spending More Doesn’t Help. . .Spend Even More?
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Protect and Enhance Federalism
Full Document Available in PDF The Framers of the Constitution intended federalism to act as…
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Study and Understand Corporate Social Responsibility
Full Document Available in PDF Congress should study the confusion created in the…
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The Enemy Within
In the early 1980s, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher emerged victorious from a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands that propelled her to a…
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