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‘Violent Saviors’: William Easterly’s Book on Imperialism and Conquest
While framed as a book about economic development theory and the history of colonialism, William Easterly’s latest tome is actually something grander and more ambitious:…
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Freedom from the Robinson-Patman Act Is Never More Than One Generation Away from Extinction
The National Review cited CEI’s new report on the Robinson- Patman law As I detail in a new report for the Competitive Enterprise…
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Despite its reluctance, tariff setting is the job of Congress — not Trump
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling against the legality of President Donald Trump’s tariffs was fundamentally about the rule…
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Supreme Court Gives Reality A Chance To Catch Up To Politics: DeLong Op-Ed
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Feds Should Make Web Cookie Crumble: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle P-I
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Distributed by Copley News Service<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> September 27, 2000…
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Amazon.com Puts Consumers in Control: Melugin in TechCentralStation.com
Published in TechCentralStation.com<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> September 25, 2000 …
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Habitat for Humanity Builds Dreams: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer September 20, 2000 In the years since I…
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Foreign Policy a Crucial Issue: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer September 13, 2000 As the presidential campaign heads into…
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Nader Has the Courage to Fight a Totem
The vice president is worried about Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Robert Kennedy Jr. summed up his concern nicely: “Nader’s candidacy could siphon votes…
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Got a Computer? More Power To You: Mills/Huber Op-ed in Wall Street Journal
It takes electrons to move bits Published in the Wall Street Journal September 6, 2000 It takes electrons to move bits. The…
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Prohibition, Privacy & Protection: The Real Online Gamble
From the August/September 2000 issue of CEI UpDate. On August 10, Jay Cohen was sentenced to 21 months in prison and a $5,000 fine. His…
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An Instant Message to AOL’s Competitors
From the August/September 2000 issue of CEI UpDate In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues…
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Publicity Value of Having Someone Do a Take-Off on Your Commercial: Priceless
Last week, MasterCard filed a $5 million law suit against Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign for piggybacking on its “Priceless” ad series. …
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Kemp — A Decade Lost: 10 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, What Went Wrong?
In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues surrounding the America Online/Time Warner merger From the August/September…
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Odds & Ends: Hannibal Regulator; Greenpeace Hitting Bottom; Nutty for Nader; Cabbage or the Gettysburg Address?
In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues surrounding the America Online/Time Warner merger From the August/September…
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Stick to the Facts, Mr. President: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 23, 2000, Wednesday Vice…
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Privacy Precepts Learned the Hard Way: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
For recently bankrupt Toysmart.com, trying to liquidate its customer information database has been more like playing with matches than children’s toys. Last week’s…
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Lieberman Makes Good Republican: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 16, 2000 A couple of weeks ago in this…
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Republicans Reclaiming Blacks: Kemp Op-Ed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
…And The Party Is Doing It By Reclaiming The Legacy The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln …And The Party Is Doing It By…
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Opening Supply Side Doors: Kemp on Dick Cheney
Published in The Washington Times Published in The Washington Times August 3, 2000 Richard B. Cheney, George…
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Double-Click For Consumers: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> August 1, 2000 “We…
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Free Money: Campaign Finance “Loopholes” are the Best Part of the System: DeLong Article in Reason Magazine
Published in Reason Magazine Published in Reason Magazine August 2000 Once again we are preparing to choose federal, state,…
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Child Online Protection Act Won’t Protect Our Children: Alban Op-Ed in Idaho Statesman
Published in The Idaho Statesman July 20, 2000 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Who could be…
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Revitalizing Urban America: Cleaning up the Brownfields
Full Document Available in PDF Despite Washington’s…
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Protecting Privacy on the Internet: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in the Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> July 5, 2000 The…
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Kemp — Real Tax Reform First: Don’t Tackle Net Taxation until We Overhaul the System
More than 100 million American adults now use the Internet, up from 65 million in mid-1998 and 84 million at the end of 1998. …
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Politics & Privacy
New developments in the online-privacy debate are threatening to push federal and state bureaucrats’ desire for regulatory control to critical mass. Not only…
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CEI Bookshelf: Political Environmentalism
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM Going Behind the Green Curtain Edited by Terry Anderson Hoover Institution Press (2000) Softcover, $19.95…
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Odds & Ends: PETA Notes; Government Gaffes; High Tech Divorce?
PACKING IT IN The sensitivity monitors at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are taking their crusade to the world of…
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Fed Up. . . or Well Served by Fannie and Freddie?
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CEI Statement on the Microsoft Case
Washington, DC, June 7, 2000 – Today’s Microsoft verdict represents an unjustified assault on the information revolution and the welfare of consumers, in favor…
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James Gattuso Reviews “Winners, Losers and Microsoft”
Artemus Ward once remarked that the problem with the world isn’t what we don’t know: “It’s the things we know that just ain’t…
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Monomania
While on a recent trip to Seattle, I was tempted to ride on the local religious icon – the monorail relic from the…
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The Peaceable Kingdom
A recent meeting between Christian Right leader, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, and gay rights activists, the Reverend Mel White, suggests that America may…
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Odds & Ends: Hot XXX Insider Trading; Paul Newman’s Own Green; Gilder’s Wisdom; A Sunny Mourning
50 EGGS IN AN HOUR 50 EGGS IN AN HOUR? UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED! Hollywood legend Paul Newman hosted a fundraiser in…
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CEI Book Review: The Way the World Works
The Way the World Works 20th Anniversary Edition by Jude Wanniski Introduction by Robert Novak Gateway Books…
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest online privacy report, released last month, calls for federal regulation of the way Internet companies collect and use…
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet: How Privacy-Protecting Technologies Have Rendered Regulation Unnecessary
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest online privacy report, released earlier this week, calls for federal regulation of the way Internet companies collect and…
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Internet Taxation: Why Wyden Won’t Wash
View Full Document as PDF After only three weeks of what apparently passes for congressional deliberation these days, the Internet tax…
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10,000 Commandments — New Report Details REAL Cost of Government
Washington, DC, May 9, 2000 – As last minute filers rushed to finish their taxes and write their checks to the government recently, Congress…
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Internet Taxation: Controversy Likely to Continue
Less than a month after the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) delivered its report to Congress, the House Judiciary Committee has passed a…
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Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee Statement on Regulatory Restructuring
Washington, DC, May 5, 2000 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee concludes that the two main objectives of any restructuring of insurance regulation…
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Judge Greene of the 21st Century?
The Justice Department’s plan was simple. Just break up the company into separate firms, based upon product lines. The parts with monopoly or bottleneck…
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Development Bankruptcy
World Bank/IMF Protestors Had the Right Idea, But For the Wrong Reasons The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are…
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Dazed and Confused: Protestors Blame the Market for Government Abuses
The protests in Washington, DC, ignited by the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attracted a wide array of…
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Drop the Limits! Limits on Foreign Technology Workers Hurt America
The technology sector accounts for close to one-third of the productivity growth in today’s economy, but the pool of qualified American tech workers…
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Odds & Ends: Airhead Leo; Customers Getting Irate?; Sprawling Mistakes; Ministry for Self Esteem
End Notes for the May issue of CEI UpDate WHO’S THE MAYOR OF LOUISIANA, ANYWAY? The intellectual heir to Raquel Welch appears…
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George Allen Gives Keynote Address at CEI Annual Dinner
Former Virginia Governor George Allen gave the keynote address at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual Warren Brookes Dinner on April 27, 2000.
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Bust Up Microsoft? CEI Weighs In
Statement of James L. Gattuso, Vice President, and Clyde Wayne Crews, Director, Competition and Regulation Policy, April 28, 2000 “The extreme plan…
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What I Saw At Earth Day 2000
CEI sent Kendra Okonski to roam the Mall in Washington, DC, on Earth Day 2000. Here is her dispatch from the front…
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Dinner To Honor Memory Of Legendary Writer
Washington, DC, April 24, 2000 – Former Virginia Governor George Allen is scheduled to give the keynote address Thursday at the 6th annual…
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