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National Review

The Tariff Roller Coaster Is Playing Tricks on You

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/22/2025

It sure feels like President Trump has reduced tariffs. The recent China deal cut tariff rates from 145 percent to 30 percent, and de minimis tariffs…

Trade and International

DC Journal

EPA Should Consider the Harm of Regulating Greenhouse Gases

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 05/16/2025

Even for the least essential choices we make in our daily lives, such as what we should have for dinner, we consider the pros and…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

Counterpoint: DOGE’s Swift but Not-So-Terrible Sword

  • 05/08/2025

Critics swing between accusing the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of overreach and declaring it a failure at cutting government. Here are some…

Business and Government

Forbes

House Reconciliation Bill Takes Aim At Regulation, But Needs Fixes

  • By: James Broughel
  • 05/07/2025

Congressional Republicans are moving one step closer to achieving their long-sought goal of overhauling the regulatory state. Tucked into the House Judiciary Committee’s …

Business and Government

Center Square Opinion

Why do so many countries have tariffs?

  • By: Iain Murray, Ryan Young
  • 05/05/2025

If tariffs are so bad, then why does nearly every country have them? It’s a fair question, and many Trump tariff defenders are asking it.

Business and Government

The Economic Standard

Rebecca Minkoff’s Success: A Testament to the Importance of Personal Credit

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 04/30/2025

Nobody likes paying interest on a credit card bill. It may seem like an easy out to just have Congress forbid it. But what people…

Business and Government

Forbes

Trump Reforms Die Without An Abuse-Of-Crisis Prevention Act

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/21/2025

Amid frustrations with interventionist elements of the Trump agenda—such as tariffs and revived antitrust zeal—many have nevertheless been encouraged by the renewed…

Business and Government

Washington Examiner

FTC’s antitrust crusade against Meta contradicts key parts of the Trump agenda

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/17/2025

We’re all about to find out if it’s the White House or what’s left of the administrative state that’s calling the shots on…

Tech and Telecom

Wall Street Journal

Zero Is the Magic Number for Cutting Red Tape

  • By: James Broughel
  • 04/16/2025

One of President Trump’s executive orders could transform how the federal government reviews and manages energy regulations that rule and constrain our lives.

Energy and Environment

Cato Institute

The Fate of ‘Never Needed’ Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/10/2025

Parking lots and parking garages have served for decades as venues for clandestine meetings in the movies and often in reality. In the early 1970s,…

Deregulation

Issues & Insights

Reviving Community Banking By Lifting Barriers To New Banks

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 04/09/2025

Americans have far fewer banks to choose from than they once did. The American banking industry has consolidated, with the number of U.S. banks falling…

Banking and Finance

Fox News

Biden’s leftover regulations will decide your next light bulb unless Trump stops them

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/04/2025

Americans have shown a real dislike for the wave of federal regulations targeting home appliances. Even more infuriating is the fact that our…

Energy and Environment

Forbes

Trump’s Deregulation Gains Muscle—But Is He Skipping Leg Day?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/02/2025

The Trump 2.0 era has been marked by some extraordinary executive orders aimed at deregulation. These include E.O.14,192’s one-in, ten-out initiative; E.O. 14219’s installation of DOGE…

Business and Government

The Hill

Canada should call Trump’s bluff and drop all of its tariffs

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/20/2025

We now appear to be in a full-fledged trade war with our closest ally and neighbor.   Canada — so deeply integrated into…

Trade and International

Law and Liberty

A Revolution Against Regulation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/20/2025

One of the great threats to freedom in the United States today is what we at the Competitive Enterprise Institute call “…

Deregulation

Los Angeles Times

The Trump administration schooled Europe on free speech. Why ignore the lesson at home?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/18/2025

Vice President JD Vance’s wise words to Europe about U.S. commitments to free speech are on a collision course with some of what’s happening stateside.

Innovation

City Journal

Home Appliance Regulations Are Out of Control

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/14/2025

President Trump hates federal home appliance regulations as much as President Biden loved them. And now Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has taken the first…

Deregulation

National Review

Trump Transition at FTC Is No Reagan Revolution

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/12/2025

Don’t call it a “comeback.” Those hoping for a Reagan-era-like return to economic sanity or regulatory humility in antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Will Congress Ever Take The Libertarian Win And Embrace Automatic Shutdown?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/11/2025

Congress is at it again. With the March 14, 2025, funding deadline looming, the House is debating a continuing resolution (CR) that would…

Business and Government

The Economic Standard

The CFPB drops its misguided case against Zelle

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/10/2025

Seemingly as part of the general order to stop work by acting director Russ Vought, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has …

Business and Government

Forbes

Like DOGE, Virginia Is Leading The Way On Government Efficiency

  • By: James Broughel
  • 03/06/2025

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is one of the most high-profile experiments in Trump’s second administration. With billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk at the helm,…

Business and Government

DC Journal

Point: Let Free Trade Work Its Magic

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/06/2025

Tariff advocates have three main arguments. One, they raise revenue. Two, they revive domestic industries. And three, they are a diplomatic negotiating tool. Not only do…

Trade and International

RealClear Energy

SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Rule Would Compel Companies to Make Scientifically False and Misleading Disclosures

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 03/05/2025

In March last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued its climate risk disclosure rule, called “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors.” …

Energy and Environment

DC Journal

Pare Back Presidential Power

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/04/2025

President Trump is poised to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, the first-year equivalent of the annual State of the Union address.

Regulatory Reform

The Daily Economy

DOGE Gets Serious in Its War on the Administrative State

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/03/2025

I have argued for over a decade that America has a fourth, largely unaccountable branch of government in the administrative state. My 2012 book, Stealing…

Business and Government

DC Journal

Point: Pare Back Presidential Power

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/27/2025

President Trump is poised to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, the first-year equivalent of the annual State of the Union address.

Business and Government

Forbes

Signs Of A Renewed Regulatory Reform Push From DOGE

  • By: James Broughel
  • 02/27/2025

Over the last half year, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has undergone an unexpected journey. What began as an idea envisioned by Elon Musk—and…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Op-Ed: Why states should avoid the temptation to tax unrealized gains

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 02/26/2025

Prospects for a federal wealth tax could be nil in the Trump era, but states – specifically blue states – may be tempted to take…

Financial Regulation

The Daily Economy

Bud Light Returns to Merit, Profit After ESG Backlash Cost Billions

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/26/2025

Most Americans have heard about Bud Light’s controversial marketing collaboration with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in April 2023 from the ensuing boycott against the brand, which tanked…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Bill Would Prevent Banks From Discriminating Over Clients’ Ideology, But Here’s the Problem

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 02/25/2025

The government shouldn’t pressure banks and other financial institutions to avoid doing business with politically controversial people and businesses, just as bakers should not be compelled…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

Trump Moves To Repeal Burdensome NEPA Rules—What’s Next?

  • By: James Broughel
  • 02/18/2025

The White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is now reviewing the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) repeal of its National Environmental…

Op-Eds

Trump’s New Executive Order Targets Independent Agencies

  • By: James Broughel
  • 02/18/2025

On February 18, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that could fundamentally reshape the regulatory landscape in Washington. The order mandates that…

The Daily Economy

Federal Agencies Stack Their Courts Against You

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 02/07/2025

Winning a case against the federal government is difficult. Most federal agencies are well represented by an army of skilled attorneys. The Department of Justice…

Law and Litigation

WSJ Opinion

Tariffs Matter More Than Don Luskin Thinks

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/04/2025

Donald Luskin argues that tariffs are “inherently small tax hikes because tariffs only apply to, at most, a base of $3.257 trillion—the total value of goods…

Business and Government

Restoring America

Trump must cancel CFPB censorship

  • By: John Berlau, Stone Washington
  • 01/31/2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen dropped bombshells on the popular Joe Rogan Experience about political persecution from financial…

Tech and Telecom

The Independent Institute

Wind and Solar Tax Credits are Destroying the Grid

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 01/28/2025

Rising power demand is revealing the fatal flaw in the increasing penetration of wind and solar on the grid. It’s time to admit that enough…

Energy and Environment

Forbes

A Banger Trump Executive Order Abolishing Regulatory Dark Matter

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/28/2025

“[A] loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity. Seething, stewing, surging, bubbling like serpents’…

Deregulation

National Review

The Federal Reserve’s New Debit Card Rule Threatens Consumers and Banks

  • By: Iain Murray, Patricia Patnode
  • 01/28/2025

While some lawmakers and regulators are targeting credit cards, the Federal Reserve has plans for your debit card. The likely result will be…

Banking and Finance

Op-Eds

Affordable Housing – How Donald Trump Could Accomplish More Than Jimmy Carter

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/20/2025

The passing of Jimmy Carter sparked much praise for his post-presidency good deeds, particularly his decades of volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity building homes…

Business and Government

Forbes

Biden’s Regulatory Big Bang: A Parting Gift Trump Is Set To Return

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/20/2025

Just as the incoming Trump administration promised to repeal “foolish” and “radical” Biden executive actions—and issue so many executive orders on day one…

Business and Government

National Review

Time to End the ESG Shakedown

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/16/2025

When the debate over environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and regulation started heating up around five years ago, most commenters had to describe what it…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Point: The Electoral College Protects Minority Views and Discourages Fraud 

  • 01/16/2025

The Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a unique system to choose our president in 1787: the Electoral College. More than two centuries later, it…

Business and Government

Forbes

Practical Policy Options To Address Wildfire Risk

  • By: James Broughel
  • 01/13/2025

As wildfires rage across Los Angeles, shrouding neighborhoods in smoke and threatening homes and lives, the urgency of addressing wildfire risks has never been clearer.

Business and Government

Forbes

The 2025 Unconstitutionality Index: Exposing Congress’s Abdication Of Power

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/09/2025

One of the themes of the incoming Trump administration is that federal administrative agencies, rather than the elected Congress, write most laws. This contradicts the…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

American Manufacturing Does Well Without Washington

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/07/2025

The purported decline and fall of American manufacturing is a bipartisan obsession. Despite all their differences, Republican and Democratic politicians favor similar policies to restore…

Trade and International

The Daily Economy

Debunking the Three Best Arguments for Tariffs

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 01/07/2025

With President Trump’s return to office after the Biden interregnum, we can be sure of one thing: tariffs are going to be a major part…

Business and Government

Forbes

Biden’s Offshore Drilling Ban Sets Stage For Showdown With Trump

  • By: James Broughel
  • 01/07/2025

President Joe Biden took a shot at the incoming Trump administration this week by issuing a sweeping ban on new oil and gas leasing across…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

What the ATF Does—and What It Doesn’t Do

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 01/06/2025

Editor’s note: In addition to his work at The Dispatch, Kevin D. Williamson is a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in which capacity he…

Business and Government

The Cedar Rapids Gazette

Here’s how Iowa is involved in stopping controversial ‘debanking’

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 01/05/2025

Many Americans have recently been exposed to the troubling reality that their government may be encouraging banks to withdraw financial services from people or firms…

Banking and Finance

National Review

The Teamsters’ Imaginary Strike against Amazon

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/01/2025

There was a historic strike by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters workers at Amazon facilities over the Christmas holiday, yet it didn’t appear to slow Amazon’s…

Business and Government

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