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The flaw in Justice Kagan defense of the NLRB
Justice Elana Kagan authored a lengthy dissent to the Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday granting the Trump administration’s request to keep the Gwynne Wilcox,…
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Newly announced tariffs on EU and Apple will harm U.S. economy, raise costs for consumers
This morning, President Trump announced a 50 percent tariff on the European Union starting on June 1 and a 25 percent tariff on iPhones…
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EPA Should Consider the Harm of Regulating Greenhouse Gases
Even for the least essential choices we make in our daily lives, such as what we should have for dinner, we consider the pros and…
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Reagan’s Ghost: Liberal pundits miss the boat when talking tax reform.
In their attempt to strangle President Bush's tax-reform plan before it even reaches the cradle, liberal journalist-strategists have conjured up a strange political…
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Improving Capitalism: The Respective Roles of Business and Government
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February/ March Issue of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Featured in the February/March Issue of the…
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A Solution to the Grokster Copyright Debate?
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns…
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Reviving Real Regulatory Reform
Full Document Available in PDF Washington, D.C., March 24, 2005—Congress and the President, now more than…
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Misnamed Activists Are Thorns In Rose Of Agbiotech Foods
In a spin-dominated world where activists claim—often on the flimsiest of data—that this, that or the other thing causes cancer or threatens the…
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Career Scientist Nominated as EPA Head
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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Erin Bode: Quite a Cover Girl
As I listen to the light and bouncy voice of Erin Bode, the young singer being positioned by the boutique jazz label MaxJazz…
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Global Tax; or Global Tax Reform?
Am I the only one who noticed that the Kyoto Protocol (imposing artificial constraints on energy use to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide to…
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UN Sea Treaty Brings ‘Tragedy of the Commons’
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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The Price is Right—Or Better Be!
Full Document Available in PDF On the popular television game show “The…
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One, Two, Many Broken Windows
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Albert Einstein is often attributed with defining insanity as doing the same over…
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$1.5 billion Bush Tax on Air Travel Fails Cost-Benefit Test
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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Bush Budget Missteps On Energy, Environment, Regulatory Reform
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Contact for Interviews: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258, or Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273…
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CEI Scholars Respond to Bush Budget
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> OVERVIEW Analysis from CEI Vice President for Policy Clyde…
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Study: “E-Waste” is Manageable
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., February 3, 2005—With rapid technological improvements in computers and electronics turning millions of products…
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Will the Real Hernando de Soto Please Stand Up?
Stop the presses! Hernando de Soto is harming the poor! So argues John Gravois, a reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, in a…
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Press Event: Study Shows ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ May Hurt Bottom Line
“Corporate social responsibility” has become a trendy international business philosophy, hailed as good for business and the bottom line. But a forthcoming study finds no…
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Cybersecurity: Markets or Mandates?
Full Document Available in PDF Private cybersecurity initiatives will gradually move us…
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Study: Consumers Could be Hurt by Federal Regulation of Insurance Industry
Contact for interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1…
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EU Rules Against Innovation in Microsoft Case
Contacts: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Clyde <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
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FCC Is Ignoring Impact of Wireless, Other Rivals for Telephone Service
In the absence of competition, regulations serve to protect consumers against monopoly market power. This is, in theory, the reason why the telecommunications local exchange…
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Square Off: Is Cyberterrorism Being Thwarted?
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> YES: Businesses have re-examined continuity plans, and governments have addressed physical and Web…
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Margaret Thatcher: A Free Market Environmentalist
Full document available in pdf format <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Tracy Mehan’s account of Margaret…
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New Book Challenges Activist Attack on Business, Personal Prosperity
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., November 19, 2004—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is proud to announce the publication…
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The Role of Business in the Modern World: Progress, Pressures and Prospects for the Market Economy
Foreward, acknowledgments, and…
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1984-2004: CEI’s 20 Year Report
Full Document Available in PDF A Message from the President CEI is…
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A Green Light for More Broadband
The Federal Communications Commission—the traffic cop of the communications industry—just raised the speed limits on broadband. Its ruling on Thursday protects many of…
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FDA-Tobacco Regulation No Public Service
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, DC, October 6, 2004—A Senate-passed plan for increasing the federal government’s regulation of…
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Tech Regulation Done Right
Full Document Available in PDF As soon as new technologies are introduced, the call…
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Déjà vu Tobacco Lawsuit Seeks $280 Billion Tax
Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington, DC, September 20, 2004—As the U.S. Department of Justice…
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Biz-War and the Out-Of-Power Elites: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation
Biz-War and the Out-Of-Power Elites: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation by Prof. Jarol B. Manheim, George Washington University (Lawrence…
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CEI Planet: September 2004
Full document available as a pdf. Tort Law “to Make Law,” by Ivan Osorio and Elizabeth Jones …
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Spitzer’s ‘Obligations’
Darren Dopp claims that his boss, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, was right to sue Dick Grasso for collecting $190 million in pay during…
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INDUCING Bad Law
Computer users know some downloads are more trouble than they are worth. The proposed INDUCE Act (S. 2560), currently in the Senate Judiciary…
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CEI Planet: July 2004
Full Document Available in PDF “Who’s Afraid of RFID?” by Jim Harper…
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The Greening of the Balance Sheets
Full Document Available in PDF In June, the United Nations’ Global…
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Who’s Afraid of RFID?
Full Document Available in PDF Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are small radio communicators…
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Spitzer Strains out Grasso While Swallowing Camels
Full Document Available in PDF Recently, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer…
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More Regulations Do Not Inspire More Trust (Letter to the Editor)
It is not surprising for regulators to seize upon business failures to argue for more regulation, touting regulations alleged benefits while minimizing its downside. But…
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The FDA Poses Threat to Our Health, Liberty
An unusual and powerful coalition of special interests is lobbying Congress for a new tobacco deal: Put the Food and DrugAdministration in charge of…
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Commercial Tracking Chips Spark Privacy Debate
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1…
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RFID Tags and Privacy
Full document available in PDF Radio frequency identification (RFID)…
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The Progressive Era’s Derailment of Classical-Liberal Evolution
It is true that where a considerable part of the costs incurred are external costs from the point of view of the acting individuals…
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Think Tank Debunks Popular Myths
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Crews Rejoins CEI as Vice President for Policy
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202-331-2273 Washington, D.C., May 11, 2004—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce the return of Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
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January-February Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “The European Constitution Falls Apart,”…
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End Subsidies for Nanotechnology
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NGOs: Dependent ‘Independents’
Curious exhortations last week by crusading Commissioner David Byrne elevated questions over the deceptive role played by the Commission funded, yet purportedly “independent”…
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Tying Down a Cultural Giant
There’s an amusing scene in Gulliver’s Travels in which the protagonist awakens from a nap and has his first encounter with the tiny…
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Field Guide for Effective Communication
Full Text in PDF For many years, conservative and classical liberal groups have struggled to market their ideas to the…
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Corporate PR Must Reach People as Consumers and Citizens
PR pros have long sought to link their efforts to clients’ return on investment. The planned campaign for the Aluminum Association, detailed in this magazine…
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December Edition of the Monthly Planet
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The Cow that Came Home to Roost
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Non-stories are common in the media around the holidays. Last year, we…
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Resentment, fear drive U.N. quest for control
There’s mounting evidence that the Internet’s good old days as a global cyberzone of freedom—where governments generally take a "hands off" approach—may be numbered.
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This Christmas, a Red-Green Split?
Europeans often talk about the Red-Green coalition, the coming together of socialists and environmentalists to save the world and its people from the…
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Wishful Anti-spam Thinking
Tomorrow, the House is expected to pass new anti-spam legislation. The effort is understandable: The increasingly apparent downside of an Internet on which you…
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark
http://www.green-watch.com/news/news.asp?ID=167 Sherlock Holmes typically uses an innocent piece of evidence to solve a mystery. In the Adventure…
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The Politics of Global Warming
THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARMING[1] Full Document Available…
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“FreeCiv” and its Discontents: Policy Lessons from Open Source Games: A Case Study
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Running Away From Safety
Remember Jim Fixx? Not many people do, and that's a shame. Fixx was a jogging guru who ran 60 miles a week. He…
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Voting the Easy Way
The Ninth Circuit's controversial decision to delay the California recall election, likely to be overturned today, is just the latest in a series of…
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CEI Does Cancún
From September 10 through September 14, the World Trade Organization will hold its fifth Ministerial meeting in Cancún, Mexico. The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be…
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Developing World’s Moral Voice Absent in Bilateral Agreements (Letter to the Editor)
Sir, Daniel Griswold (“Bilateral deals are no threat to global trade”, July 27) raised several valid points in the defence of bilateral trade agreements. However,…
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‘Spammers’ Ignoring Anti-Spam Legislation
Dear Editor: If you look closely at the spam filling your inbox, you might notice one or two…
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Manager’s Journal: What Media Monopolies?
AN ODD-BALL COLLECTION of special interests are patting themselves on the back this week after convincing the House of Representatives to scale back…
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New Telecom Study First to Find Artificial Price Controls Cost Americans More, Provide Few Benefits
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Stop This Today! Unsolicited E-mail vs. Unsolicited Legislation
<?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml” /><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /><?xml:namespace prefix = w ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word” />In a…
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Analysis: Two worlds
We live in a divided world. The division, however, is not between north and south, East and West or First World and Third World…
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Letters to the Editor: We Must Address the Root Problem of Spam
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Much of the Internet industry's newfound support of e-mail spam legislation seems…
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FCC Should Repeal Media Ownership Rules
Contact for Interviews:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 Washington, D.C., May…
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Reducing Tobacco Risks: Individual Choice vs. Imposed Abstinence
Contact:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns…
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Stopping Spam: New Study Focuses on Anti-Spam Strategies
Contact for Interviews:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., May…
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When Molecules Fly
Should the federal government fund scientific research with taxpayer dollars? Boondoggles like the Superconducting Supercollider, the space station, energy research programs, the Supersonic…
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Real-Time Dragnet: Cracking down on Internet innovation
“To serve and protect” is a longstanding slogan of police departments everywhere. It’s also an accurate description of a political dragnet against e-commerce, a scenario…
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Stop Sending Cubans Back to Castro’s Gulag
The barbarity of Fidel Castro's regime became plain to the world last week—and so did the immorality of a Clinton-era policy toward Cubans attempting…
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The Blueprint for Building A New Iraq
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., April 15, 2003—As U.S. and British forces begin to wrap up their mission in…
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March Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Greens’ Federal…
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Why Taxing Internet Sales Makes No Cents or Sense
As the April 15 deadline to pay personal income tax approaches, momentum is building to force a new group of people onto the…
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If The Feds Regulate Mere Annoyances, What Will They Not Regulate?
Question: Should government protect your dinner hour from annoying telemarketers? Answer: If the feds regulate mere annoyances, what will they not regulate?…
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Proposed Telecom Rules Threaten Competition
Washington, D.C., March 11, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute and several other free market groups are petitioning the White House to support the…
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February Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition:…
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New FCC Plan A Small Step For Telecom Deregulation
Washington, D.C., February 20, 2003— The Federal Communications Commission today approved new rules affecting competition between telecommunications firms. Today's plan does not…
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Project On Technology And Innovation Expanding
Washington, D.C., February 12, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is expanding its Project on Technology and Innovation with the addition of…
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New SEC Rules Create Added Costs, Little Benefits
Washington, D.C., January 29, 2003 – Despite opposition from many sources, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules on forced disclosure…
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Public Interest Group Opposes Technology Mandates, Joins Alliance For Digital Progress
Washington, D.C., January 23, 2003—Now that we’ve solidly entered the Digital Age, how should intellectual property best be protected, through the marketplace…
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The Poindexter Awareness Office: Turning the Tables on Mr. Supersnoop
Talk is cheap, but surveillance is, too. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The federal government's…
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Option-Wars
Full Document Available in PDF Suppose that, a year ago, an investor dialed up his local Psychic…
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Does the Bush Administration Have Legal Authority to Award Regulatory Credits for Greenhouse Gas Reductions?
Full Document Available in PDF This paper examines the Electric Power Industry Climate Initiative’s (EPICI’s) attempted rebuttal of the Natural Resources…
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The Bankruptcy of Collectivist Environmental Policy
Full Document Available in PDF Classical liberals have done much over…
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October 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The True Scourge:…
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The New Faith: A Review Of “Economics As Religion” By Robert H. Nelson
The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church offered the following opinion on the cause of the September 11 attacks: “The affluence of nations such…
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August/September 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Nothing But Hot…
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Repealing E-Prohibition
Elliot Ness may have missed out on the web, but alcohol prohibition is alive and well over the Internet. More than half the states forbid…
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TV Networks Are Playing Ad Games With Digital Video Recorders
If you’ve ever taken a trip to the bathroom during a commercial break, watch out – the TV networks might sue you for…
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Can Science Make Us More Secure?
Fred L. Smith, Jr. President, Competitive Enterprise Institute The search for a safe society is dangerous as hell. One of the most…
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Why We Are United
As the patriotic tunes of July 4 reminded us, America is a highly diverse nation. We’re black, brown, white, red, and yellow; Catholic,…
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Orbitz: Good For Airlines, Good For Travelers
Orbitz started selling airline tickets over the Internet on June 1, 2001. It is owned by five major carriers and supported to a…
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Don’t Run The Options: Expensing Proposals Raise Difficult Practical Questions
Several companies recently announced intentions to count the value of stock options granted to employees as a compensation expense in calculating corporate earnings. Among…
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A No-Risk Non-Policy From The Administration On Broadband
The “21st Century High Tech Forum” was held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington last Thursday. Meeting at a time of such…
