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The oasis in America’s affordability desert: Broadband gets faster while prices fall
Americans are understandably worried about affordability. Housing, health care, utilities, and groceries have all become more expensive in recent years, stretching household budgets…
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BEAD and the cost of conditions
Last month the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that Nebraska had connected one of the first households in the country to…
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From Ma Bell to FaceTime: Why the next Telecom Act must embrace innovation over regulation
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Telecom Act), a landmark law that Congress is considering updating. Lawmakers…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. AUTOMOTIVE The Department of Transportation announces the biggest change to federal fuel economy regulations…
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Waiting to Inhale: ‘Thank You for Smoking’
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Few industries are more demonized than Big Tobacco. From…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS General Motors goes forward with plans to fire salaried workers at 30 U.S. locations, cutting…
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V is for Read the Book Instead
“People shouldn’t fear their governments, governments should fear their people.” This line from the movie V for Vendetta seems to have convinced libertarian luminaries…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez announces the creation of a new center for…
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“But now all the stations are silenced, ’cause they ain’t got a government license”
Broadcasting has come a long way since the pioneer punk band The Clash blasted Britain's radio regulators with that line in 1979, but in some…