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Want higher air fares? Overregulate credit cards
This morning, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Transportation are holding a joint hearing “investigating” airline and credit card reward programs.
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Biden’s veto of joint employer rule CRA a blow to small businesses
President Biden’s veto Friday of a Congressional Review Act (CRA) bill rolling back the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) “joint employer”…
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Subsidy-free capitalism may require a constitutional amendment
Automobiles, electrification, ample consumer goods and mass marketing, a construction boom, and access to credit helped fuel the Roaring Twenties of a century ago.
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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
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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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Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
- Consumer Freedom
- Deregulation
Richard Morrison
Senior Fellow
- Antitrust
- Business and Government
- Capitalism and Free Enterprise
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
- Automobiles and Roads
- Aviation
- Business and Government
Ryan Young
Senior Economist
- Antitrust
- Business and Government
- Regulatory Reform