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How IAIS advances DEI policies
As explained in an earlier blog post, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has drifted away from its mission and is actively working…
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Big Beautiful Bill threatens the Costco of health care
You’ve probably never wondered why you buy peanut butter from the grocery store instead of directly from the J.M. Smucker Company or your TV from…
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Impact Of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act – ‘Clean Energy Ghost Towns’
MRCTV cited CEI’s expert on Inflation Reduction Act Ben Lieberman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute recently testified before the House Oversight Committee on the impacts of…
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Can Congress Tell a Virtual World from the Real One?
Some say online virtual reality operations like “Second Life” have attained the stage of evolution that blogging and the Internet itself occupied several years…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Thousands gather in Mexico City to protest steeply rising prices for…
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The Immorality of the Minimum Wage
The Democratic juggernaut has slowed. The House has approved a minimum wage increase as part of the “100 hours” agenda. But a filibuster has blocked…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Competitors renew complaints about the dominance of Microsoft as the company prepares…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal investigates denial-of-coverage complaints against major insurance companies.
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“Terrible Ten” State Attorneys General Profiled in New Study
Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Washington, D.C., January 24, 2007—A new CEI study of abuse of power by state attorneys general singles out…
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How Will Congress Respond to the State of the Union?
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The Senate takes up legislation raising the minimum wage.
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Oh Boy, Alberto
If you were watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings Thursday, chances are you didn't see it coming. Senator Arlen Specter was questioning Attorney…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The House of Representative approves legislation requiring the government to negotiate lower…
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The High Cost of Low Price
Should free market advocates oppose a plan aimed at lowering prescription drug costs? Generally, no. But, when such a plan involves the flexing…
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You Try Living with Ed’s Wife
Ed Begley Jr. had an image problem. Hollywood is lousy with so-called activists, but he's a genuine back-to-the-land environmentalist and something of a…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS New Democratic congressmen warn Speaker Pelosi to stick to a politically moderate…
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A Free Market Agenda for the 110th Congress
Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute releases its policy recommendations for the new leadership on Capitol Hill: This Liberal Congress Went to…
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This Liberal Congress Went to Market: a Bipartisan Policy Agenda for the 110th Congress
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The House of Representatives meets today to debate an increase in the…
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A Free Market Agenda for the 110th Congress
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., January 10, 2007—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute releases its policy recommendations for the new leadership…
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The FCC’s challenge: Separating speech and state
WASHINGTON – With a stop-off in Nashville, Tenn., in December, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continues a series of hearings debating government’s role in determining…
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Why flying cars haven’t taken off— yet
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> A recent General Motors ad campaign is a real letdown.
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Mr. Green Was Doing Just Fine
Imagine that you are a social worker. You open the local paper the day after Christmas to find one of those stories that editors…
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Democrats: There Is Such a Thing as Too Much Regulation
As Democrats take power in Congress, speculation has swirled around the question of why Republicans lost. But there is a factor – a…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY The Federal Communications Commission gives its unanimous final approval to the merger of AT&T…
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Ford Tough
Most obituarists portrayed President Gerald Ford as a humble man with few ambitions, a great conciliator, a political moderate, an all around nice…
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Stop Bushing the Envelope
President Bush has several strengths, but negotiating with Congress isn't one of them. He wants to come across as the Goldilocks president. As he said…
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One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Flu fearmongers must be quite depressed these days. Seasonal flu is late. Bird flu – despite all the headlines – hasn’t gained much traction…
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Issues in the News FINANCIAL REGULATION A U.S. District Court hears arguments in the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Free Enterprise Fund’s…
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Bad Politics at a Minimum
It's a cliche of politics that the name of a proposed bill or initiative depends largely on its name. (More on this later.)It's…
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Will Democrats Kill Their Golden Goose?
To the naked eye, a hike in the federal minimum wage looks like a done deal. Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi will include it in the…
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U.S. District Court to Hear Landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Case
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Claims by Energy Security Advocates Clash with Consumer Safety Concerns
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 Washington, D.C., December 19,…
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Only You
Nearly 7 million copies of Time magazine's annual “Person of the Year” issue are set to arrive in mailboxes and on newsstands in…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Big technology companies lobby Washington for data privacy legislation. CEI Experts Available…
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Time for a virtual games Declaration of Independence
Some say online virtual reality operations like “Second Life” have attained the stage of evolution that blogging and the Net itself occupied several…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNATIONAL The European Union approves a new law, known as “REACH,” regulating the manufacture…
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U.S. Businesses, Consumers to Feel Effects of Massive European Chemical Regulations
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., December…
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SEC Drops the Ball on Sarbanes-Oxley
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., December 13, 2006—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to provide meaningful…
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Should We Restrict Ourselves to the War of Ideas?
Economic liberalism faces a multi-front assault, an assault that has been underway for decades but that has intensified in recent years. As discussed in the…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Tech companies lobby for federal data privacy regulation. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President…
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New York City Bans Science
The New York City Board of Health this week banned the use of trans fats by restaurants. The decision is directly traceable back to…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Scientists predict an intense hurricane season for 2007. CEI Expert Available to…
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Freedom Fighter
The war to advance economic liberty will last forever. The effort is frustrating and often discouraging. Many freedom fighters burn out, retire from the field,…
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The Case Against Racial ‘Balancing’ Schemes
The editorial “A Different Race Case” argued that Seattle’s use of race in assigning students to schools should be upheld by the Supreme Court…
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Stern went beyond global warming alarmists’ ‘consensus’
Sir, Martin Wolf's attempted defence of the Stern report (“After the arguments, the figures still justify swift climate action”, November 15) completely fails to…
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Friedman’s Legacy
Though I never met him, Milton Friedman, who has died aged 94, was one of the earliest influences on my political development. In…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Wal-Mart plans a price-cutting blitz for the holiday shopping season. CEI Expert…
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The Unboring Pundit
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> John Tierney's Tuesday column began innocently enough. He…
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Election Wins for Sarbanes-Oxley Reform
Washington, D.C., November 14, 2006—Reform of the onerous Sarbanes-Oxley accounting mandates was a winning issue for Democratic and Republican candidates in the election of 2006,…
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What will we do when America’s lights go out?
Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was etablished, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes…
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Lifestyles of the Ethical Consumer
Recently, the celebrity gossip blog, DMZ, took a swipe at celebrities “who claim they’re green, but guzzle gas”. George Clooney, among others,…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Verizon and YouTube near a deal to bring web videos to cell…
