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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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Trimming the Fat
Bastiat Institute
No Sense in Maryland’s “Dime-a-Drink” Tax Increase
Bastiat Institute
GM Raises $20 Billion in IPO
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An Issue of Science and Economics
Full Document Available in PDF Abundant and affordable energy is one of the great boons of…
Bastiat Institute
GM’s Stock Offering Goes Well, But Some See Nothing to Cheer
Bastiat Institute
Does FDA’s Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage Ban go too Far?
Bastiat Institute
Rewriting the Rules of Capitalism
Bastiat Institute
Obama includes Toyota, Hyundai and Kia in 75,000 jobs “created” by GM bailout
President Barack Obama and his administration have cited numerous job statistics after last week’s successful initial public offering of General Motors. John Berlau, director of…
Bastiat Institute
Halfway Between Sanity and Bedlam
Bastiat Institute
What’s Good for GM Is Now Terrible for America
Bastiat Institute
What’s Good for GM Is Now Terrible for America
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…
Bastiat Institute
Wall Street to GM: Let’s Put Those Bad Days Behind Us
Bastiat Institute
Agencies Target ‘Blackout in a Can’
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Court Should Kill California’s Video Game Law
Free expression in the digital age faces a major test before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier this month, the court heard oral arguments debating the…
AOL News
GM selling at a loss should tell you something
When a government sells stock in a company, it is usually trying to maximize short-term revenue. Therefore, the share price is normally pegged at what…
AOL News
Immigration law a threat to Texas competitiveness
Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, made headlines recently for prefiling an Arizona-style immigration law called HB 17. An Arizona-style anti-immigration law would be…
News Release
Protest San Francisco’s Happy Meal Ban – While You Still Have a Choice
Washington, DC., November 16, 2010—The Competitive Enterprise Institute invites you to consider taking your family to McDonald’s for Happy Meals on Saturday, November 20th, to…
News Release
FDA’s Caffeine Power Grab
Washington, D.C., November 17, 2010: The Competitive Enterprise Institute today called a pending FDA ban on caffeinated-alcoholic beverages a misguided and arbitrary extension of…
AOL News
Bill Would End Right to Work in All States
Samuel Gompers, the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor, once said, “There may be here and there a worker who for…
AOL News
Cap-and-tax is Dead but Kyotoism is Alive and Well at the EPA
Cap-and-tax may be dead in Congress but the Kyoto agenda of stealth energy taxes marches on at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Although the Clean…
AOL News
Debbie Riddle’s Arizona-Style Immigration Law Would be a Disaster for Texas
Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle made headlines last week for introducing an Arizona-style immigration law called HB 17. An Arizona-style anti-immigration law would be…
National Center for Policy Analysis
Instant Reform: Measure the Hidden Tax of Regulation
The National Center for Policy Analysis discusses Wayne Crews's research on what Congress should do about the growing size of the regulatory state.
Fox News
FDA’s Graphic Warnings for Cigarettes: Noble Ad Campaign or Nanny State at Work?
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Minn.’s Pawlenty Ups Challenge to Fed Health Law
Google News
Pawlenty Seeks to Add Voice to Health Care Suit
Politico
Tim Pawlenty Joins Health Bill Lawsuit
Politico
Instant Reform: Measure The Hidden Tax Of Regulation
If Congress doesn’t grapple with the regulatory state, this economy can’t regain footing. You don’t have to tell the grass to grow; you simply have…
Texas Insider
An End to Out-of-State Beer?
Washington Times
Cigarette Warnings to be More Graphic?
Associated Content
National Deficit Commission: Eliminate Commercial Space Subsidies
NCPA
An End to Out-of-State Beer?
US News
Tobacco Settlement Could Go to the Supreme Court
NCPA
The Problem with Public-Private Partnerships
NCPA
A Union Pension Bailout During the Lame Duck Season in Congress?
NCPA
Tobacco settlement — A pinnacle of coroporate-government collusion — faces challenge in Supreme Court
NCPA
The Election’s Over, So Let’s Get Back to Business
President Obama recently warned that the current high unemployment could be “a new normal” in the United States. If his administration doesn’t change course…
Investors' Business Daily
Tax Preparers Shouldn’t Get IRS Favors
Taxes are big business. And not just for the federal government, which collects over $1 trillion per year in income tax revenue alone. Because the…
Investors' Business Daily
Many Threats Loom in Lame-Duck Session
LaCrosse Tribune
GOP Shift in House Not Likely to Affect Farmers
LaCrosse Tribune
Democrats Support Yet Another Bailout
LaCrosse Tribune
Big Labor May Still Reap Benefits Despite Election Losses
Organized labor’s fears were realized Tuesday when Republicans won a decisive majority in the House, almost eviscerated the Democrat majority in the Senate and picked…
Las Vegas Review Journal
Reining in the regulatory state
The Las Vegas Review-Journal discusses Wayne Crews's research on the size of the federal regulatory state. Congress passed and the president signed into law…
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Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom
Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom Fred L. Smith, Jr. President, Competitive Enterprise Institute Written Remarks For the…
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The 2010 Union Pension Bailout Bills
Get ready to give some of your hard-earned cash – again – to the cronies of Congress who are pushing for yet another bailout. Two…
Las Vegas Review Journal
Contrarian Says U.S. Needs More H-1B Workers
Daily Caller
A Giant Awakens?
Yesterday’s election could be the start of something grand — but not because Republicans won the House. Many of the Obama administration’s policies, including…
Daily Caller
Contrarian Says U.S. Needs More H-1B Workers
Daily Caller
Unions are Hijacking our Democracy
Daily Caller
It’s Time To Regulate The State
Think about what’s about to happen, if we don’t stop it. Crushing regulations loom thanks to unpopular health care and financial reform legislation. An ambitious…
Daily Caller
Why I Didn’t Vote
The last time I voted was in 2002. And once again, after careful thought, I decided to sit this one out. There are lots…
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