Publication

• By: CEI Staff
• 07/24/2008

View the new Montly Planet by downloading the PDF of the issue. Below you’ll find previews of the articles in this issue:…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 06/11/2008

View the new Montly Planet by downloading the PDF of the issue. Below you’ll find previews of the articles in this issue: The New…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 12/12/2007

Full Document Available in PDF The Tiger at a…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 08/23/2006

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PLANET (PDF) “Two-Point-Eight-Trillion-Anything Is Scary” by P.J. O’Rourke…

Antitrust

• By: Brooke Oberwetter
• 08/23/2006

This past June, a coalition of business leaders calling itself the Consumer Privacy Legislation Forum—representing such heavyweights as Eli Lily, Google, Microsoft, and Procter &…

Antitrust

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/23/2006

Does anybody believe that companies should be socially irresponsible? I don’t think so. The problem is that few people can seem to agree on…

Antitrust

• By: Peter Suderman
• 05/08/2006

America has developed a proud paternal bond with the Internet.  We’ve watched and cheered the Net’s growth from its awkward, text-heavy infancy into…

Antitrust

• By: Gregory Conko
• 05/08/2006

The long-awaited World Trade Organization (WTO) decision on biotech food is due to be released this spring, but a leaked copy of the…

Antitrust

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/08/2006

Sugar is already shaping up to be a contentious issue in upcoming debates on the 2007 omnibus farm bill. The call for dismantling…

Antitrust

• By: Sam Kazman
• 05/08/2006

Violations of the Constitution come in all shapes and sizes.  Many of you may be familiar with the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), which CEI…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/08/2006

Animal rights extremists—whom the FBI has labeled America’s biggest domestic terrorism threat—have encountered a number of serious reverses recently. These reverses are a great victory…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff
• 05/08/2006

Full Document Available in PDF New Era, or ‘Ancien Régime,’…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff
• 03/20/2006

President Concedes Moral High Ground on Energy by Myron Ebell "America is addicted to oil." With these five words in…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff, Jason Talley
• 03/17/2006

Jason Talley heads the Bureaucrash pro-freedom activist network—in Bureaucrash’s own parlance, he is the Crasher-in-Chief. He spoke recently with CEI Planet on his…

Antitrust

• By: John Berlau
• 03/17/2006

I grew up here in Kansas City, on the Kansas side, Johnson County. Ewing Kaufman left the Kaufman Foundation as his legacy, along with many…

Antitrust

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/17/2006

Death closes so many books that are still being written. A book that was closed over the holidays was the Bill Bradford volume. Bill was…

Business and Government

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/17/2006

On February 9, the Competitive Enterprise Institute helped file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a federal agency…

Antitrust

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/05/2006

Senator Hillary Clinton traveled 6,000 miles to dramatize the need for faster medical device approvals. Hard to believe, isn’t it? In fact, Sen. Clinton…

Business and Government

• By: Braden Cox
• 01/05/2006

Simply uttering the phrase “Internet governance” is enough to make some people cringe with visions of Big Brother. But Internet governance is not—and shouldn’t be—some…

Antitrust

• By: Isaac Post
• 01/05/2006

Standing alongside U2 lead singer Bono in March 2002, President Bush announced the formation of a “new compact for global development, defined by new accountability.”…

Business and Government

• By: CEI Staff
• 01/05/2006

Full Document Available in PDF Europe’s Global REACH: Chemical Regulations…

Antitrust

• By: CEI Staff
• 10/13/2005

Full Document Available in PDF No Regulation Without Representation…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 10/12/2005

Given the enormous amounts of money advocates of bigger government throw about these days, many market liberals long to find our own “George Soros.”…

Business and Government

• By: Christine Hall
• 10/12/2005

On August 2, 2005 the Competitive Enterprise Institute launched a legal challenge to the multi-state tobacco settlement of 1998. Nearly seven years after the settlement was…

Antitrust

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/12/2005

The exact cost of the federal regulatory state may never be fully known. As with taxes, firms generally pass along to consumers some of their…

Business and Government

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 10/12/2005

Chairwoman [Candice] Miller [R-Mich]. Ranking Member [Stephen] Lynch [D-Mass] and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you inviting me to comment on congressional regulatory reform initiatives. …

Business and Government

• By: Braden Cox
• 06/28/2005

Full Document Available in PDF Cheers to the Supreme Court for its…

Business and Government

• By: James Plummer
• 06/28/2005

Full Document Available in PDF With the Supreme Court…

Business and Government

• By: Dana Joel Gattuso
• 04/30/2005

This article is based on the report, Mandating Recycling of Electronics: A Lose-Lose-Lose Proposition , published by CEI, February 2005. Haste maketh waste in the…

Business and Government

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 04/30/2005

Full Document Available in PDF Albert Einstein is often attributed with defining…

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 04/30/2005

Full Document Available in PDF Many have heard…

Business and Government

• By: David Henderson
• 04/01/2005

Full Document Available in PDF This is an excerpt…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/14/2005

Full Document Available in PDF Private cybersecurity initiatives will gradually move us…

Business and Government

• By: Braden Cox
• 01/14/2005

Full Document Available in PDF Declining cost businesses must have ways…

Antitrust

• By: Braden Cox
• 10/01/2004

Full Document Available in PDF As soon as new technologies are introduced, the call…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Iain Murray, Ivan Osorio, Liz Jones, Martin Morse Wooster
• 09/01/2004

Full document available as a pdf. Tort Law “to Make Law,” by Ivan Osorio and Elizabeth Jones  …

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Ivan Osorio, Marlo Lewis, Jr., Stub
• 07/31/2004

Full Document Available in PDF “Who’s Afraid of RFID?” by Jim Harper…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 07/31/2004

Full Document Available in PDF In June, the United Nations’ Global…

Business and Government

• By: Stub
• 07/31/2004

Full Document Available in PDF Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are small radio communicators…

Business and Government

• By: Braden Cox, Fred L. Smith, Jr., Iain Murray
• 03/31/2004

Full Document Available in PDF “To Panic or Not to Pan?   Farmed…

Antitrust

• By: Angela Logomasini, Braden Cox, Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/09/2004

Full Document Available in PDF   Articles in this edition:…

Business and Government

• By: Angela Logomasini, Braden Cox, Fred L. Smith, Jr., Hanah Metchis, Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 08/15/2003

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition:  …

Antitrust

• By: Angela Logomasini, Braden Cox, Ivan Osorio, Sam Kazman
• 04/09/2003

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Greens’ Federal…

Business and Government

• By: Angela Logomasini, James V. DeLong, Sam Kazman, Stub
• 10/01/2002

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The True Scourge:…

Business and Government

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Myron Ebell, Stub
• 09/01/2002

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Nothing But Hot…

Business and Government

• By: Myron Ebell, Sam Kazman, Sean Paige
• 03/01/2002

Full Document Available in PDF   Articles in this edition: “President…

Business and Government

• By: Dr. Leonard Evans, Fred L. Smith, Jr., James V. DeLong, Sean Paige
• 02/01/2002

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Poised For A Broadband…

Business and Government

• By: Paul J. Georgia, Sam Kazman, Sean Paige
• 01/15/2002

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Energy Policy Takes A…

Business and Government

• By: Christopher C. Horner, James L. Gattuso, Michael Mallinger, Sean Paige, Solveig Singleton
• 12/01/2001

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Two Faces of…

Business and Government

• By: Angela Logomasini, Jack Kemp, James L. Gattuso, James V. DeLong, Michael Mallinger, Paul J. Georgia, Sean Paige, Solveig Singleton
• 10/01/2001

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Security vs. Civil Liberties”…

Business and Government

• By: Ben Lieberman, Christopher C. Horner, Fred L. Smith, Jr., Jack Kemp, James V. DeLong, Robert H. Nelson, Sam Kazman, Sean Paige
• 09/01/2001

Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “U.S. Triumphs In Bonn”…

Business and Government

• By: Max Schulz
• 08/02/2001

A SHOT OF GROWTH IN THE ARM OF THE BODY POLITIC From the August 2001 Edition of CEI Update  …

Business and Government

• By: Max Schulz
• 08/01/2001

Ken Smith 1957-2001 From the August 2001 Edition of CEI Update   A decade ago the free-market community, as…

Business and Government