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Statement by Competitive Enterprise Institute President Kent Lassman on Ed Crane’s passing
Ed Crane, libertarian activist and co-founder of the Cato Institute, passed on Wednesday, February 11. CEI President Kent Lassman remembers Crane for his profound legacy,…
Capitol Research Center
American Compass vs AFL-CIO battle isn’t what it appears to be
Capitol Research Center cited CEI’s expert on Labor & Employment The language of the title is notable, and evidence of where the Compass faction…
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January adds 130,000 jobs, economists still cautious: CEI analysis
The economy added 130,000 jobs to the economy in January, exceeding economists’ expectations. While the news isn’t bad, lingering uncertainty regarding President Trump’s economic…
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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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Undoing College
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Encourage Innovation in Credit Availability
Full Document Available in PDF The abuses of the subprime crisis have made it…
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Recognize the Value of Hedge Funds and Private Equity for Entrepreneurs and Shareholders
Full Document Available in PDF Hedge…
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Roll Back Burdensome Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Rules
Full Document Available in PDF “How can we have these levels of fictions…
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Make Accounting Regulators Accountable
Full Document Available in PDF The flawed valuation models for subprime securities have once again…
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Curb and Phase Out Taxpayer-Funded Corporate Bailouts
Full Document Available in PDF Many Republicans and Democrats…
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Reform U.S. Agriculture Programs
Full Document Available in PDF With America facing a lengthy and possible deep recession and…
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Rein in the $1 Trillion Regulatory State
Full Document Available in PDF From transportation to trade, from communications to banking…
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One Nation, Ungovernable?
Full Document Available in PDF As both political parties wrangle over economic stimulus packages and…
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Championing Economic Liberty in a Time of Crisis
Full Document Available in PDF Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s incoming…
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GM Bad Deal
In his 1953 confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense in the incoming Eisenhower administration, former General Motors CEO Charles “Engine Charlie” Wilson was asked how…
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Food Safety: Why Is the Food Safety Bill So Controversial?
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Judge to Obamacare architects: Ahem. Meet the Constitution, power-grabbers.
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Obama’s GM Numbers Are Not Adding Up
Before Thanksgiving, President barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden did a victory lap at friendly venues across the country in the wake of the…
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Feds Use New Tool to Target Ex-CEO
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McDonald’s Obesity Class Action Dismissed
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You Won’t Believe What You Paid for GM Bailout
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Coaliton Letter on Credit Union Regulatory Relief
Full Document Available in PDF Along with this letter please find a new advertisement, signed…
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Was Prohibition Repealed?
This Sunday, December 5, many people will raise their glasses and celebrate Repeal Day — the anniversary of the end of Prohibition, a day when…
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The Jobs O Hates
For all his talk of job creation, President Obama has targeted many occupations for extinction. Using un-elected bureaucrats to implement a host of job-killing measures,…
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More Thoughts on the College Debt Bubble
Cafe Hayek
Ryan Young advises that you not allow the IRS to prepare your tax filings
Cafe Hayek
Federal workers will still receive raises despite pay freeze
Among the many suggestions for deficit reduction in the recently released Fiscal Commission report is a 15 cents-per-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax. This…
Cafe Hayek
Obama’s Claims About Auto Jobs
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EU Antitrust Investigation Into Google Will Hurt Consumers
Washington, D.C., November 30, 2010 – Today, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google to probe allegations that the firm rigged…
Cafe Hayek
Vincent Vernuccio on TSA Unions
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses the possibility of a union for the TSA.
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Vincent Vernuccio on Consumer Responsibility
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses Black Friday…
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Vincent Vernuccio on GM Thanksgiving ad
CEI Labor Policy Counsel Vincent Vernuccio discusses the GM commercial thanking the American people for their public bailout…
Cafe Hayek
GM Shares Are Artificially Inflated (Letter to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to note that General Motors’ supposed “success story” is actually a money-loser for taxpayers. Not only did GM’s recent sale of…
Cafe Hayek
What’s Good for New GM Is Bad for the Rest of America
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