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GDP grew by three percent in the second quarter of 2025: CEI analysis
The GDP grew by three percent in the second quarter of 2025, marking a return to growth after first quarter shrinkage. CEI senior economist…
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Week in Review: July 25, 2025
Sate Policy Network cited CEI on ESG policies The Competitive Enterprise Institute reported that some asset managers are leaving ESG-focused investing behind, aligning instead with taxpayers and…
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Where will Japan’s $550 billion investment in the U.S. go?
MarketPlace cited CEI’s expert on Tariffs For Ryan Young, senior economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, this deal — where the president allegedly directs…
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The Case Against The Case Against Microsoft: New Study Criticizes DOJ Case
Washington, DC, April 27, 1999 – Are Microsoft’s current business practices hurting consumers? A new study by Barry Fagin, Senior Fellow in Technology Policy…
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“A celebration of human ingenuity”: Resourceful Earth Day
CEI joins many different groups in celebrating Resourceful Earth Day on April 22. In memory of Julian Simon, Resourceful Earth Day celebrates and debates…
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The Sovereignty Implications of the Kyoto Protocol
I understand you have already heard a number of talks about the Kyoto Protocol, and a lot about the economics, and the science of…
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Dan Quayle To Address Institute Dinner: Former Vice President Will Offer Assessment of Environmental Issues
Washington, D.C., April 15, 1999 – Former Vice President Dan Quayle will give the keynote address at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) Warren T. Brookes…
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Who Should Pay for College Tuition (Letter to the Editor)
As a student I appreciate your call for colleges and universities to ante up more of their own funds to pay for needy students’ tuition…
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Conservation and the Public Trust Doctrine
Full Document Available in PDF The public trust doctrine has been evolving since…
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Ending The Forest Fire Gridlock: Making Fire Fighting In The West A State And Local Responsibility
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Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1999 Edition)
Full Document Available in PDF The federal government spent $1.65 trillion in 1998 to…
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The Problems With Planning: A Free-Market Guide To Suburban Development & “Urban Sprawl”
A brief overview of…
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The New Trustbusters
Joel Klein is a famous man. The head of the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice usually toils in anonymity, known only…
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A Defective Product: Consumer Groups’ Study of Microsoft In Need of Recall
View Full Document as PDF Consumer groups are supposed to be on the side of consumers. But three such groups – the…
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Never forget the moral of Danegeld
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Beware of the Kyoto Compromise: Kemp and Smith Op-Ed in NY Times
Published in the New York Times Published in the New York Times January 13, 1999 In November…
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Electricity Reform in Colorado
Full Document Available in PDF Consumers in Colorado pay prices for electricity that are among the lowest in the country. Therefore, indeed they…
Sierra Club
Billboards on the Garden Wall
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Free Trade and Idealism
In October, the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 passed through the U.S. Congress with little opposition. The new law enables unilateral export embargoes to be…
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Airline Deregulation: The Unfinished Revolution
Full Document Available in PDF In the 20th anniversary year of airline…
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Another Smoking Gun: Institute Opposes New Tobacco Settlement
Washington, D.C. November 17, 1998—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today announced its opposition to the latest tobacco settlement, calling it an affront to both individual…
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Global Warming: Evidence From The Satellite Record
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface The scientific case for an international climate treaty rests largely on predictions generated…
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Encryption Policy for the 21st Century: A Future without Government-Prescribed Key Recovery
Full Document Available in PDF Encryption technology…
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Government Research Funding And Economic Distortion
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Science and technology are good things. Still, there are many good…
Calgary Sun
Global Rivalry at End?
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Why Robert Bork Is Wrong:
Is there a clear legal precedent for the successful prosecution of Microsoft? Robert H. Bork seems to think so. He has stated emphatically…
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Computers and Competition: A Primer for Congress
With a new Microsoft hearing in the Senate on Thursday, legislators should keep in mind some crucial facts that argue against interference in…
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Mogul vs. Mogul
Full article available in pdf format. Rupert Murdoch has come under fire for reneging on a contract to…
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Mogul vs Mogul
Rupert Murdoch has come under fire for reneging on a contract to publish former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten’s manuscript East and West. Reports indicate…
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Opposing Groups Offer Sincerity Test On Tobacco Tax
Washington, DC, May 26, 1998 — Two organizations which in the past disagreed on the issue of tobacco regulation today joined to propose a…
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Rethinking Insurance Regulation–1998
NATURAL DISASTERS AND CATASTROPHIC INSURANCE The morning’s panel focused on the issue of natural disasters and catastrophic risks and the financing problems posed…
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Rethinking Insurance Regulation–1998
NATURAL DISASTERS AND CATASTROPHIC…
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A Disaster Waiting to Happen: Why Washington Shouldn’t Subsidize Disaster Insurance
This Thursday, April 23, the House Banking and Financial Services Committee will examine H.R. 219, the Homeowners Insurance Availability Act sponsored by Rep. Rick…
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Micro-managing Bill Gates
Full article available in pdf Republicans are known for praising markets and condemning overregulation of business. But oddly, they often conspicuously endorse…
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Book Review – The Suicidal Corporation
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Bill, Bob, and Browsers: Why DOJ’s Case Against Microsoft is Flawed
While Microsoft has been pilloried by newspaper pundits, a trial court judge, and other alleged computer experts for not submitting to the federal government,…
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Network Effects: Does Luck or Talent Rule the High-Technology Market?
Does luck matter more than talent in the marketplace after all? Many of today’s calls for antitrust interference in the marketplace are rooted in a…
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Supreme Court Turns Down Suit On New York Rent Control
Washington, DC, February 23, 1998 — The United States Supreme Court today declined to hear a constitutional attack on New York State’s restriction of…
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Flirting With Disaster
Congress is again exploring new ways to undermine the private market for homeowners insurance in disaster-prone parts of the country. On February…
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Coveted Internet Cash Cow?
Published in the Washington Times <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> January 30, 1998 Excerpted in…
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Bi-Partisan Forum To Evaluate IMF
Washington, DC, January 12, 1998 – An unprecedented coalition of left and right-leaning organizations will conduct a forum on Capitol Hill to discuss the…
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Bail Out For The Foolish
My Daddy always said never get between a fool and his mistake – it would sacrifice the only good that might come from the…
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Ralph Nader’s Anti-Microsoft Campaign Hurts Consumers
WASHINGTON, DC, November 12 , 1997 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) suspects that Ralph Nader does not speak for all consumers in his…
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Whose Information Is It Anyway?
Everyone is for privacy, but not everyone agrees what “privacy” means. Privacy as used in popular parlance can become little more than an…
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James Gattuso Joins CEI as Vice President
Washington, D. C., December 22nd, 1997 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) announced today that James Gattuso has joined the staff as Vice President…
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Abusing Discrimination
In America at century’s end, the surest way to obtain special treatment for a social group is to assert that its members suffer…
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Antitrust Enforcement Punishes Consumers, Protects Business
Two new publications from the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Antitrust Reform Project unmask antitrust law as a bad deal for consumers. Though purported to regulate…
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Antitrust Policy As Corporate Welfare
Full Document Available in PDF Political party reformers promised to roll back the…
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The Central Planning Of Lifestyles: Automobility And The Illusion Of Full Cost Pricing
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Disparate Impact Dangers
On March 10 one of the nation's largest property and casualty insurers, Nationwide Insurance Company, agreed to part with $13.2 million to settle allegations…
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Antitrust and The Commons: Cooperation or Collusion?
Full Document Available in PDF People have long been aware that unbridled…
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CEI Announces June Antitrust Conference
WASHINGTON, DC May 12, 1997– The Competitive Enterprise Institute is proud to invite you to attend RETHINKING ANTITRUST REGULATION: Reform, Repeal, or Retreat?…
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The Yellowstone Affair: Environmental Protection, International Treaties, and National Sovereignty
Full study available in pdf format Environmental regulation has gone international in recent decades. There has been a proliferation of treaties, conventions, and protocols aimed…
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Institute Cheers Court Decision, Cautiously: Free Speech Protected, but FDA Regulation of Tobacco Unwarranted
WASHINGTON, DC April 25, 1997 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute gave one cheer for today's federal court ruling that overturned FDA's attempt to restrict…
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States Lead Way with Environmental Audits: New Study Finds EPA Opposition Unwarranted
WASHINGTON, DC April 14, 1997— Environmental audit laws demonstrate state leadership in environmental policy innovation, according to a new study. The state laws provide…
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NAIC Insures Privileged Access
Thousands of insurance executives and regulators converged on Orlando, Fla., in March to attend the spring meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners…
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CEI Joins Large Congressional Coalition to End United Nations Entitlement
Announcing its support of a growing coalition to rethink United Nations treaties, conferences and global taxation proposals in general and the U.S. “debt” to the…
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New Choices in Auto Insurance
The high cost of auto insurance is a serious concern for many people across the country. Annual premiums can run into thousands of dollars.
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CEI Joins Rep. Kasich and Broad Coalition to “End Corporate Welfare as We Know It”
Denouncing the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) as “a silly distortion of global financial markets whose worst human consequences are in the third world,” Competitive…
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Legalized Gambling in the United States
Legalized gambling in the United States is increasingly under attack, not only within individual states regarding its proposed expansion into new jurisdictions, but also on…
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Microsoft Is a Competitor, Not a ‘Predator’
Published in The Wall Street Journal<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> October 7, 1996 …
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Greens’ Bark Worse Than Bite: Environmental Issues Played Minor Role in Congressional Races
Despite predictions that environmental issues would sweep many Republican Senators and Congressmen out of office, environmental issues appear to have had a minimal impact on…
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Cleaning Hands In Predation Cases: A Modest Proposal To Improve Predatory-Pricing Suits
Full Document Available in PDF Reasonable…
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Ten Thousand Commandments: A Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1996 Edition)
Full Document Available in PDF While we know rather precisely how much the federal…
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Message from the Executive Director: Opposing Legal Plunder
Legal plunder is as old as government itself. In fact, most governments in most times and places are little more than glorified gangs of robbers.
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Wal-Mart — Predator or Prey?
In 1991, three retail pharmacies in Faulkner County, Arkansas, sued Wal-Mart for selling pharmaceutical items at predatorily low prices. The plaintiffs claimed that Wal-Mart's below-cost…
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Message From the President: Do Good, Be Profitable
The failure of socialism has forced its former adherents to seek new means to achieve old goals. One of the now popular variants is…
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Environmental Education in Wisconsin: What the Textbooks Teach
Full Document Available in PDF Introduction Our schools…
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How the Market Self-Polices Against Predatory Pricing
Full Document Available in PDF Courts today are more skeptical than…
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How Much Is God Worth?
Full Document Available in PDF Economics has traditionally put a value only on goods…
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The Free Market Automobility Bibliography
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The Mismeasure of Man
The environmentalist assault on chlorine has taken a recent turn. Organochlorines, we are now told, not only cause cancer, they are capable of altering human…
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Promise and Peril: Implementing a Regulatory Budget
Full Document Available in PDF The size of the federal budget…
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The Business and Regulation of Insurance: A Primer
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Oysters and Willapa Bay
Contents: Oysters Oysters and Willapa Bay Eliminating the Tragedy of the Commons Experimentation and Innovation Fighting for Water…
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The Role, Limitations and Legitimacy of Regulatory Mechanisms in Market Economies
The charge at this Ditchley conference was a broad one: we were to review the proper scope of regulation and examine how that function…
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Two Years After NAFTA: A Free Market Critique and Assessment
Full Document Available in PDF The debate over the…
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Appropriations Riders and Environmental Reform: How Appropriate?
Full Version Available In PDF The reform and restriction of federaql regulatory programs is a key element of the conservative Congressional agenda. Many…
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Assessing the Political Approach to Risk Management
Full Document Available in PDF…
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A Primer on Derivatives
Full Version Available in PDF Although criticized often and considered unfathomably complex, "derivatives" are relatively straightforward financial contracts that are not inherently…
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Tanks on the Roll
Full article available in pdf format. Article originally appeared in the July 8, 1995 edition of the National Journal and was written by…
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Regulatory Reform: Is it Still a Pipe Dream? A Look at the 104th Congress
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Institute Rolls Out Study on Cars and Freedom
The Car is under increasing attack as a polluter, gas guzzler, and destroyer of civilized life. But in a new study to be presented…
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VAT Chance for Tax Fairness
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The Economic Fallacies Of Demand-Side Management
Executive Summary Recent years have seen the emergence of Demand-Side Management (DSM), a new approach to the electricity utility planning process. Through DSM…
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Who Needs An ExImBank?
Full Document Available in PDF Despite being the world’s leading exporter, the U.S.
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How to Dismantle the Interior Department
Full Document Available in PDF The Department of the Interior was…
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The Economic Fallacies of Demand-Side Management
Full Document Available in PDF Recent years have seen the emergence of…
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The World Bank’s Trail of Sorrows
View Document as PDF As congress looks for ways to reduce the federal budget, it should start by cutting htose programs with…
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The World Bank’s Trail of Sorrows
The Freeman
Risks in the Modern World: What Prospects for Rationality?
Risk refers to the likelihood that something will go wrong.[1] People naturally fear such mishaps, and risk aversion is a basic survival trait.
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Property Rights Fact and Fiction
Full Document Available in PDF The rise of property rights activism was…
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Property Wrongs: The Growth of Federal Land-Use Control
Full Document Available in PDF In the spring of…
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Public vs. Private Land Management: Which is Better for the Environment
Full Document Available in PDF The…
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Putting People Last: Endangered Species vs. People
Full Document Available in PDF Law-abiding, workaday Americans all across…
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Learning The Washington Game: Political Strategy And Tactics
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Those entering the federal government who seek to redirect the system to put greater emphasis on…
The Freeman
Books for Christmas
As a policy wonk, my recommended reading list, not surprisingly, is wonkish. Still, among all those dusty, boring books that make up this body of…
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Soft Targets for Elimination at Energy, Interior, & EPA
Full Document Available in PDF The November 8 elections were a resounding call for smaller, less-intrusive government. The Contract with America – advertised…
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Good Books For Christmas
Full Article Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Contains brief reviews of Searching For Safety, Essays On Economics And…
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The Quotable Fred
Full Booklet Available in PDF Format Executive Summary A compendium of quotes from the writings and speeches of CEI president and…
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Instrastate Trucking: Stronghold of the Regulators
The deregulatory wave of the 1970s and early 1980s freed the railroads, the airlines, air cargo carriers, and interstate trucking and buses from the…
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Pick a Number
Full Study Available in PDF How much would you be willing to pay for an…
