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A blueprint for digital censorship in the US?
Internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), as revealed by digital censorship journalist Matt Taibbi, showed that the group’s primary…
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In honor of Free Speech Week, end all regulatory gag orders
Free Speech Week is an annual, nonpartisan celebration of the indispensable right to speak one’s mind. While every level of government is expected…
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The Justice Department’s Proposals for Breaking Up Google’s Dominance Won’t Work
Reason quoted CEI’s expert on antitrust atmosphere Jessica Melugin, director of the Center for Technology and Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, tells Reason that a…
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Filmmaker Debunks “Super Size Me” Claim
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Judy Kent, 202.331.2266…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 16, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Receipt available as a pdf. “All substances are…
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Filmmaker Debunks “Super Size Me” Claim
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Judy Kent, 202.331.2266…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 15, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Receipts available as a pdf. “Man prefers to believe what…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 14, 2004
Receipts available as a pdf. Take the “Does the Government Think You're Fat?” test at www.BMIscale.com. Users can plug…
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Get Shorty
Americans appear to have stopped growing. Europeans, on the other hand, are continuing to grow taller. That's an interesting phenomenon, but probably little…
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NGO, Reform Thyself
These days, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) face increasing criticism. This is something new for the global NGO movement, whose actions, campaigns, and goals have,…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 12, 2004
“I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.” – Joe E. Lewis<?xml:namespace…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 13, 2004
Receipts available as a pdf. Luigi Cornaro was born in 1467 in Padua, Italy and found himself at…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 4, 2004
Receipts available as a pdf. “I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but…
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Bush a Piker at Manipulating Science, Compared to Clinton, Gore
The political silly season has spawned a flurry of attacks on the Bush administration for “politicizing science.” To be sure, some of the…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 11, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate,…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 10, 2004
Receipt available as a pdf. “Once during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 9, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Vegetarian: a person who eats no meat, and sometimes no animal products…
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Down in the Dumps
When most people hear the words “illegal dumping,” they probably think of someone using somebody else's trash dumpster without permission. However, in the…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 8, 2004
Day 8: Despite the claims of certain food nannies that McDonalds has a uniform menu throughout the country, I have found that this…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 7, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Receipt available as a pdf “So somebody ate at McDonalds…
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Many Talents Needed for FDA Post
The departure of FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan leaves a high-level opening in the Bush administration for the right candidate. It's a hard job, but…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 5, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Receipts available as a pdf. “A gentleman never…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 6, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Receipt available as a pdf Day 6: Exhausted. After traveling…
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DAILY DIARY: DEBUNK THE JUNK – APRIL 3, 2004
My academic journey has not been easy. Fortunately, I have always been very inquisitive and love reading so that combination has led me…
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DAILY DIARY – Debunk the Junk Report – APRIL 2, 2004
Receipts available as a pdf. “Even when all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.” – Bertrand…
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DAILY DIARY – Debunk the Junk Report – APRIL 1, 2004
Click on pdf link above to see receipt from day one. “You go girl!”, “the…
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From the Pumps to the Polls
Does the high price of gasoline hurt Bush or Kerry? It hurts both of them.<?xml:namespace prefix = u1 /> <?xml:namespace prefix = o…
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Soso’s receipts
Proof that Soso is adhering to her all McDonald's diet.
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Filmmaker to Challenge Fast Food Perceptions
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Audrey Mullen, 202.861.5677…
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Federal Regulations Pump up Gasoline Prices
The stage is set for sky-high gasoline prices this summer. We probably won't threaten the inflation-adjusted record of $2.90 per gallon set in 1981,…
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Why We Need Sound Science Rules
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United Kingdom, the Sir…
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A Cast of Thousands
In <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Hollywood's glory days, studios peppered movie posters with the words “cast of thousands” in bold…
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The New Reason For Pain at the Pump
Everyone knows that the recent rise in the price of oil has had an effect at the pump, but something less well known…
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Culture Wars
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> When Americans hear the word “outsourcing,” they typically imagine the movement of <?xml:namespace prefix =…
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Perils of Cultural Protectionism
Attention all European firms that export to the U.S.! Thanks to a protectionist political project run by Canada and France, you…
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Protecting our Exports
Auto parts, precious metals, lumber—Canadians have found many ways to export their way to success in the global economy.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns…
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Greenpeace, Earth First!, PETA: Radical Fringe Tactics Move Toward Center Stage
Full article available as a pdf. Greenpeace<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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Epidemiology Beyond Its Limits
In 1995, science writer Gary Taubes warned that the science of epidemiology (tracing the source and causes of disease) was reaching a crisis…
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Taming the NGOs: An Epic Fight
NGOs are strong – so strong that some commentators call them the “second superpower.” Over the last 10 years, the NGO movement has become so…
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NGOs: Dependent ‘Independents’
Curious exhortations last week by crusading Commissioner David Byrne elevated questions over the deceptive role played by the Commission funded, yet purportedly “independent”…
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Tying Down a Cultural Giant
There’s an amusing scene in Gulliver’s Travels in which the protagonist awakens from a nap and has his first encounter with the tiny…
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“Direct Action” The Tactics of Radical Activism: Part 1, How Environmental Groups Use Violent Tactics to Advance their
Full article available as a pdf. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />July 8, 2000 –Kwajalein Atoll,…
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The Global Network of Snobs
Cultural creativity is big business in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America. According to the most recent data from Economists Incorporated, U.S.
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Field Guide for Effective Communication
Full Text in PDF For many years, conservative and classical liberal groups have struggled to market their ideas to the…
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France Launches Global Culture War
Cultural creativity is big business in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America. According to the most recent data from Economists Incorporated, U.S.
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Corporate PR Must Reach People as Consumers and Citizens
PR pros have long sought to link their efforts to clients’ return on investment. The planned campaign for the Aluminum Association, detailed in this magazine…
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The Cow that Came Home to Roost
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Non-stories are common in the media around the holidays. Last year, we…
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Buy Nothing Day: Sustainable Consumption at the Cost of Sustained Consumption
Black Friday. The term evokes images of crowded malls and families rushing to get through Christmas shopping lists. The Friday after Thanksgiving is…
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New Rules May Give Diesel Vehicles a Needed Boost
The vast majority of Americans are satisfied with cars and sport-utility vehicles powered by gasoline. In contrast to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns…
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark
http://www.green-watch.com/news/news.asp?ID=167 Sherlock Holmes typically uses an innocent piece of evidence to solve a mystery. In the Adventure…
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The Power of Positive Drinking: Are Alcoholic Beverage Health Claims Constitutionally Protected
Full Document Available in PDF Food and…
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Baptists and Bootleggers
If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the coalition of the Baptists and the bootleggers has to be one of the oddest. In the early part…
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Coalition for Tax Competition Letter to Congressman John Sweeney
CEI joins more than 30 other free-market groups in praising New York Congressman John E. Sweeney for his strong opposition to UN and…
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Voting the Easy Way
The Ninth Circuit's controversial decision to delay the California recall election, likely to be overturned today, is just the latest in a series of…
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CEI Does Cancún
From September 10 through September 14, the World Trade Organization will hold its fifth Ministerial meeting in Cancún, Mexico. The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be…
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As Protestors Debate Biotechnology, Four U.S. Groups Donate Two Tons of Food to Mexican Village
Cancún, Mexico, September 11, 2003—While demonstrators at the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancún, Mexico continue to protest the trade discussions, four U.S.
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Son et Lumière Over French Heat Wave
With over 10,000 deaths ascribed in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />France to the recent European heat wave, the finger-pointing has…
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Medicare Reform Unfair Burden on America’s Youth
Submitted at the Press Conference<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Sponsored by The Coalition…
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FT Summer School – A Risky Weapon in the Corporate Armoury-
“Derivatives have become associated with recklessness following several high-profile bankruptcies, but they can be an effective way of managing risk,” says Christopher Culp.In…
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The Scapegoat Utility Vehicle
Reprinted with permission from Foundation for Economic Education, http://www.fee.org First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy. For owners…
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Power Outage: Electricity Expert Available for Interviews
To schedule an interview with Fred Smith or another CEI environmental policy scholar, please contact Audrey Mullen at 202-861-5677.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns…
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Is Big Bad?: SUV Critics Hold Consumers in Contempt
Reprinted with permission from the August/September issue of Reason magazine. High and Mighty: SUVs: The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got…
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Bush’s Choice for EPA Chief Lost Opportunity?
Contact: Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1…
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Much Ado About Nothing?
The last year has been a bad one for future AIDS victims. The U.N. AIDS conference in Barcelona was an activist circus. U.S. Secretary…
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Pollsters: A New Danger in Baghdad
<?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml” /><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /><?xml:namespace prefix = w ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word” />We have, for…
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Taxing Times in California: The Depths to which his California has Fallen.
Stories of taxpayer abuse at the hands of the IRS were once so common as to be cliché, but Gil Hyatt recently discovered that…
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Merrill Lynch Rulings Show Serious Flaws in Wall Street Research Settlement
Contact for Interviews:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C.,…
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Alien Torts: The Risks of Allowing Foreign Citizens to Sue U.S. Companies
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />June 25, 2003…
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Wish Fulfillment: The EU Constitution Lays Down NGOs’ Ideals in Stone
When former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing was first minted as President of the European Constitutional Convention, he suggested that he might be <?xml:namespace…
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Analysis: Two worlds
We live in a divided world. The division, however, is not between north and south, East and West or First World and Third World…
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April/May edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Article in this edition:…
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Stop Sending Cubans Back to Castro’s Gulag
The barbarity of Fidel Castro's regime became plain to the world last week—and so did the immorality of a Clinton-era policy toward Cubans attempting…
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The Blueprint for Building A New Iraq
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., April 15, 2003—As U.S. and British forces begin to wrap up their mission in…
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March Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Greens’ Federal…
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The New Faith: A Review Of “Economics As Religion” By Robert H. Nelson
The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church offered the following opinion on the cause of the September 11 attacks: “The affluence of nations such…
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August/September 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Nothing But Hot…
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Can Science Make Us More Secure?
Fred L. Smith, Jr. President, Competitive Enterprise Institute The search for a safe society is dangerous as hell. One of the most…
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Why We Are United
As the patriotic tunes of July 4 reminded us, America is a highly diverse nation. We’re black, brown, white, red, and yellow; Catholic,…
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Bombing Ranges vs. Masked Boobies: Can Besieged Pentagon Win War On Regs?
View Sean Paige's Article On Environmentalist Threats To Military Readiness Washington, DC, May…
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A Man, A Plan, A Boondoggle
The Bush administration is not his father’s Oldsmobile—I mean administration—but it isn’t Ronald Reagan’s either. Bush II is amenable to reducing government, but…
CEI Planet
May 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Chumps…
CEI Planet
April 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Al Qaeda’s American Cousins”…
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March 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “President…
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Boeing Earnings At Risk In Europe Tax Fight
The European Union has won its case against the United States in one of the longest running trade disputes in international trade law. On…
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February 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Poised For A Broadband…
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January 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Energy Policy Takes A…
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IMF Helped Sink Argentine Economy
When democracies create economic calamity, free markets get blamed. In today's world that means the International Monetary Fund, with U.S. backing, bails out lenders on…
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December 2001 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Two Faces of…
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November 2001 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Military Readiness Threatened By…
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New Threats to Financial Privacy Could Affect Foreign Investment in the U.S. and Hurt Economy
Washington, D.C., October 9, 2001—How much the federal government should be allowed to invade people’s privacy and infringe on civil liberties has been…
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CEI Statement On The “In Defense Of Freedom” Coalition
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, a coalition of organizations across the country was formed in an effort to…
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October 2001 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Security vs. Civil Liberties”…
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Nation Goes Back To Work Of Economic Recovery
Washington, D.C., September 20, 2001— The terrorist attacks of last week have left a heavy burden on the United States – psychologically, politically,…
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CEI Names New Warren Brookes Fellow In Environmental Journalism
Washington, DC, September 17, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce that Eileen Ciesla, formerly a staff writer with The American Spectator,…
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Earth Island Institute’s Ridiculous Response to the Events of September 11
This article was originally published by the Earth Island Institute on September 14, 2001, and has since been taken down. See CEI’s response to the…
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It’s Too Late To Wait And See: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Monetary…
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September 2001 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “U.S. Triumphs In Bonn”…
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Phlebotomizers at the IMF: Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service
Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In the 18th and 19th centuries, the foundation of…
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How the IMF Could Become a Real S&P for International Debt
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Two key members of Congress, House Majority Whip Tom Delay and House…
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Fiddling While the World Economy Freezes: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> As…
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White House Listening on Regulatory Reform
Washington, DC, June 29, 2001 — With the fight over taxes over for now, the Bush Administration may soon be taking a hard…
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Little-Known Regulations Contribute to Cost of Government
Washington, DC, June 19, 2001 — Many American know that they must work, on average, from January 1 to May 3 (Tax Freedom…
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Economics As Religion
Nelson, CEI senior fellow in environmental studies, continues the discussion begun in his 1991 book, “Modern Economic Theology.” He begins by examining the…