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Forbes

Pinpointing The Role Of Economic Liberty In Inspiring Global Entrepreneurship

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/27/2018

It is hard to start a business that works. Most people do not attempt it. The reasons are complex, but the World Bank’s Doing Business…

Regulatory Reform

Fox News

Supreme Court’s Janus decision is a win for government workers (and all Americans)

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/27/2018

In its 5-4 ruling Wednesday in Janus vs. AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), the Supreme Court overturned decades-old precedent that allowed…

Trade and International

Inside Sources

How States Can Increase Worker Freedom After Janus

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/27/2018

he U.S. Supreme Court struck down forced union dues for state government workers this week, in a ruling that restores the First Amendment rights of…

Labor and Employment

Forbes

Trump’s Executive Branch Restructuring: What If The Federal Government Is Beyond Streamlining?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Iain Murray
  • 06/25/2018

Can the federal government shrink? Or is the situation like the waistlines that paradoxically parallel the growth of the diet and fitness industry?…

Business and Government

The Washington Examiner

Judge Protects Us from ‘Protection’ Bureau

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/25/2018

As the Senate prepares for what should be a contentious confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee to head the powerful Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection…

Banking and Finance

Washington Examiner

Judge protects us from ‘protection’ bureau

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/24/2018

As the Senate prepares for what should be a contentious confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee to head the powerful Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection…

Deregulation

The New York Times

Supreme Court’s Wayfair Decision Will Hurt Online Shopping

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/22/2018

Thursday’s Supreme Court decision has changed how states can tax online shopping. In South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., the court upheld a state law that…

Business and Government

Inside Sources

Trump Orders Make Regulatory Agencies More Accountable

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/21/2018

At the start of summer, just as most Americans were headed out for Memorial Day observances and travel, President Trump suddenly put out three hugely…

Labor and Employment

Forbes

What Key Factors Influence Entrepreneurship and Business Growth? Ideas for Researchers

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/20/2018

If getting things done requires too many steps, there will be fewer entrepreneurs. That seems to be something of a consensus in the economics and social…

Regulatory Reform

Forbes

Universal Basic Income: What’s The Plural Of Apocalypse?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/20/2018

Is homo sapiens, in the final analysis, a being incapable of living unless supported by a universal basic income (UBI)? One of the mounting threats…

Labor and Employment

Washington Examiner

Online Sales Taxes Won’t Solve States’ Budget Problems

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/12/2018

For almost 20 years, state and local politicians have lobbied Congress for permission to reach across their borders and collect sales taxes from online businesses…

Business and Government

Forbes

What the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Decision Means for U.S. Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/11/2018

President Donald Trump's moves to streamline federal regulation and unleash infrastructure have in some ways been unprecedented. But some developments could undermine or swamp the…

Antitrust

Inside Sources

Will Trump’s Tariffs Kill Free Markets?

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 06/09/2018

President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum against allies like Canada, Mexico and the European Union are only the latest skirmish in a long-term attack…

Business and Government

Washington Times

Why the U.S. and Switzerland should capitalize on momentum to forge a trade deal

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 06/06/2018

Since the start of the Trump administration, trade has been front and center. The United States has begun raising tariffs and other trade barriers against…

The Washington Times

Freezing the Paris Climate Accord is a job for the Senate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/06/2018

The Washington Times published an article written by Marlo Lewis reviewing the future of American energy independence and the shackling of the American economy under…

Energy

Forbes

Louder Applause + Less Regulation = Greater Entrepreneurship

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/04/2018

Unleashing entrepreneurship is a global imperative, evidenced by worldwide governmental passion for classifying and measuring entrepreneurship, such as the World Bank's Doing Businessreport series, and by…

Regulatory Reform

Washington Timres

Freezing the Paris Climate Accord is a job for the Senate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/01/2018

Why would we want to remain in a club that’s organized to pressure and browbeat us into acting against our best interests and better judgment?…

Energy and Environment

Standpoint Magazine

Trump Prefers Energy Dominance to Paris

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/31/2018

Donald J. Trump has made many decisions since becoming President of the United States that have offended the permanent political establishment in Washington; and in…

Energy and Environment

The Washington Times

Trump Was Right on Paris Climate Decision, But Needs to Do More

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/31/2018

Why would we want to remain in a club that’s organized to pressure and browbeat us into acting against our best interests and better judgment?…

Energy and Environment

The Wall Street Journal

NLRB Acting Like It Has Something to Hide

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/31/2018

Regarding your editorial “Funny Business at the Labor Board” (May 17): The National Labor Relations Board Inspector General Office has responded to the Competitive Enterprise…

Labor and Employment

Science 2.0

EPA IRIS Program Is Hardly The “Gold Standard”

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 05/24/2018

Don’t be fooled by those who say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) sets the…

Chemical Risk

Op-Eds

Do-er/Thinker Alliances: How Capitalists Can Defend Capitalism

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/24/2018

The Fraser Institute of Canada just released a new book called Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the Effects of an Aging Population. The book contains a series of 10…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Op-Eds

Next-Level Prosperity: Explaining And Reversing Declining Entrepreneurship Rates

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/17/2018

One of the consequences of aging populations in the West that may sometimes not be fully incorporated into public policy is that the pool of folks inclined…

Regulatory Reform

Inside Sources

Counterpoint: Plastic Bans Won’t Solve Ocean Plastic Problem

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 05/07/2018

Proposed “solutions” to mounting plastic waste in the ocean continue to border on the absurd — suggesting that banning straws, bags and other consumer products…

Energy and Environment

The Hill

Fuel Economy: California’s Empty Suit

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/06/2018

California, joined by 16 states and the District of Columbia, have petitioned the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to “review,” i.e. overturn, EPA Administrator Scott…

Climate

The Hill

High Stakes in Supreme Court Sports Betting Case

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 05/05/2018

In just a few days, the Supreme Court is expected to announce a decision on Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Consumer Freedom

Washington Times

Leaving the Ultimate Misnomer Behind

  • By: Daniel Press
  • 05/04/2018

Congress has a dwindling number of days left to stop a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regulation that will make payday loans difficult for consumers to get.

Banking and Finance

Washington Examiner

Education Department Employees Can’t Do Union Work on the Taxpayers’ Dime Anymore

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/30/2018

A simmering feud between the Department of Education and the union representing the agency’s employees erupted into a bigger squabble over a wasteful taxpayer subsidy…

Government Unions

The Hill

Pruitt’s Rule Ending Secret Science is Pro-science, Pro-consumer

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 04/30/2018

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s proposed rule to increase public access to scientific data makes eminent sense, since transparency is a cornerstone of the scientific process. The public should…

Energy

Forbes

Social Media Filtering Is Not Censorship

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/27/2018

Governments can censor. And in a convoluted way, that's what social media regulation would do.

Business and Government

The Hill

When a Bureaucrat Asks for Less Power, Give it to Him

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 04/23/2018

Former Congressman Mick Mulvaney is now a bureaucrat — so he proclaimed at a Congressional hearing on April 18. The acting director of…

Regulatory Reform

The Wall Street Journal

Weight Is an Element in the Safety of Cars and Trucks

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 04/23/2018

Aluminum may be a great metal, but it isn’t a miraculous metal. In its April 13 letter, the Aluminum Association criticizes my op-ed, “Coffee…

Energy and Environment

Inside Sources

Fossil Fuels — Curse or Blessing?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/23/2018

Earth Day turns 48 this year and thousands of activists will “recycle” their calls for greater government control over energy resources and infrastructure. Is that…

Energy and Environment

USA Today

Trump is Cutting Through Regulations, but Only Congress Can Make it Last

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
  • 04/20/2018

Eventually, politicians will be forced to get spending and deficits under control, but regulatory reforms are just as important to keep the economy growing and…

Regulatory Reform

Op-Eds

The Six Ways Trump Has Cut Red Tape (So Far)

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/11/2018

Alongside tax reform, cutting red tape has been big news. Congress created the regulatory enterprise and enabled the now-sweeping delegation of legislative power to administrative agencies…

Regulatory Reform

Forbes

Mark Zuckerberg Testimony: Will Washington Cast The First Stone At Facebook?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/09/2018

As Facebook is embroiled in three separate privacy crises, let he who never transacts commercially or politically cast the first stone.

Privacy and Cybersecurity

The Washington Post

Why do Maryland Labor Unions Want Workers’ Private Data?

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/06/2018

Maryland public-sector unions are lobbying the state legislature to undermine a Supreme Court case that could end their power to make workers pay union fees…

Labor and Employment

The Wall Street Journal

Coffee Won’t Kill You, But CAFE Might

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 04/05/2018

The federal government’s auto fuel economy standards have for decades posed a simple problem: They kill people.

Energy and Environment

The Wall Street Journal

Cryptocurrency: Does Fed Want to Imitate Venezuela?

  • By: John Berlau
  • 04/04/2018

John Berlau writes a letter-to-the-editor to The Wall Street Journal about the dangers of the U.S. government issuing its own digital currency.  After Kevin Warsh…

Banking and Finance

The Wall Street Journal

Mick Mulvaney Replies to Elizabeth Warren

  • By: Daniel Press
  • 04/04/2018

Daniel Press writes a letter-to-the-editor to The Wall Street Journal in response to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s complaints in “Republicans Remain Silent as Mulvaney’s CFPB…

Banking and Finance

CNBC

How Amazon Wins if Internet Sales Tax Goes Into Effect

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/03/2018

In April, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that could affect the future of online commerce, specifically small online sellers and those who…

Tech and Telecom

San Francisco Chronicle

Cutting Tailpipe Emission Not That Effective Against Global Warming

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/03/2018

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it will reconsider the federal government’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for passenger cars for model years 2022-25.

Energy and Environment

The Hill

Senate Can’t Let U.S. Railroad Regulator Roll Back Progress

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 03/27/2018

Few Americans give much thought to the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the nation’s economic regulator of railroads. Yet, the STB oversees a critical infrastructure network…

Tech and Telecom

Forbes

Let’s Keep Cryptocurrency Mines Running in Human Achievement Hour & Every Hour

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/26/2018

On Saturday, March 24th, from 8:30 to 9:30 PM in their local time zones, some people will turn off their lights as part of an…

Banking and Finance

Fox Business

Dropbox IPO Shows Tech Upstarts Still Have It

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/26/2018

The long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) by Dropbox, Inc. was a success, shares soared about 40% in the debut. The pop also tells us a…

Antitrust

The Wall Street Journal

For Some Class-Action Lawyers, Charity Begins and Ends at Home

  • By: Ted Frank
  • 03/26/2018

We hope the Supreme Court will protect consumers who take part in class actions from being preyed upon by their attorneys.

CEI Litigation

Fox News

Earth Hour or Human Achievement Hour: Which is the enlightened choice?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/26/2018

Two very different events will take place from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, local time, around the world. Participants in Earth…

Energy

Sacramento Bee

Kudlow’s Skills will Keep US Economy Rolling in Fast Lane

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/22/2018

Just as baseball season approaches, President Donald Trump hits it out of the park with his appointment of economist Larry Kudlow to head the White…

Banking and Finance

The Hill

Congress, Bring the FCC’s Authority up to Speed

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/13/2018

On Tuesday, March 6, the U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass a bill to reauthorize the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an agency with…

Tech and Telecom

Inside Sources

Freedom of Speech Should Protect All Opinion

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 03/09/2018

President Trump has called this country’s libel laws a sham and a disgrace and said he wants to change libel laws to allow liability for…

Free Speech

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