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Free to Prosper: Labor and Employment
Read the full chapter on Labor and Employment here Increases in productivity—not artificial increases in labor prices—are the key to economic growth and rising…
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Free to Prosper: Banking and Finance
View the full chapter on Banking and Finance here Access to capital is fundamental to the operation of a free society. It allows for…
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Free to Prosper: Regulatory Reform
View the full chapter on regulatory reform here All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United…
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CEI Joins Organizations to Comment on California’s Draft Self-Driving Car Regulations
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Bruce Yandle’s Remarks at the 2016 CEI Dinner
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[AUDIO] WMAL Interviews Iain Murray on Brexit
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Attorney General Delegates Powers to Tort Lawyer in Exxon Climate Case
The Heartland Institute discusses the subpoena CEI recieved that attacked the organization's first ammendment rights with Sam Kazman. Other victims of Walker’s abuse…
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Report: Taxing The Rich Won’t Fix Income Inequality
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2018 – Executive Summary
Download the Executive Summary as a PDF Spending and deficit restraint are vital to the nation’s economic health. But the cost…
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9,999 Commandments? Six Ways Rule Flows Were Reduced or Streamlined in 2017
Download Chapter 1 as a PDF Rather than jump directly into the numbers of rules and regulations, this year’s Ten Thousand…
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Toward a Federal Regulatory Budget
Download Chapter 2 as a PDF When Congress spends money, a certain degree of disclosure helps voters hold their representatives accountable. Federal…
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The Cost of Regulation and Intervention
Download Chapter 3 as a PDF Regulation and spending are related; both are implements by which governments act or compel individuals. Therefore, policy…
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Thousands of Pages and Rules in the Federal Register
Download Chapter 4 as a PDF The Federal Register is the daily repository of all proposed and final federal rules and regulations. Although…
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Presidential Executive Orders and Executive Memoranda
Download Chapter 5 as a PDF Executive orders, presidential memoranda, and other executive actions make up a large component of executive “lawmaking” but…
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More than 22,000 Public Notices Annually
Download Chapter 6 as a PDF In addition to the Federal Register’s tally of some presidential memoranda, public notices in the Federal…
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Analysis of the Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulation
Download Chapter 7 as a PDF The “Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions” (the Agenda) is where agencies…
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Government Accountability Office Database on Regulations
Download Chapter 8 as a PDF The various federal reports and databases on regulations serve different purposes: The Federal Register shows the…
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First Amendment Fight: CEI’s Climate Change Subpoena
“Attorney General Walker’s subpoena of us is an outrageous violation of our First Amendment rights, and its sole purpose is to shut down debate.” -…
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Big, bloated government
The Pittsburg Trib cites Wayne Crews's study on the federal regulatory state. It gets worse. Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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Free Market Groups Putting Property Principles into Action
When I told a friend some years ago that I was going to be working in a think tank, he replied, “Huh. I always wondered…
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Bernie Bill Could Be A Big Win For Union Election Drivers
The Daily Caller references Trey Kovac's article to understand how card check supresses worker's voice. A main focus of the measure would be…
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Walker Labor-Policy Proposal Earns Praise
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Graham Hearing Could Touch On I-Poker Ban Bill
The Card Player cites CEI`s Michelle Minton on internet gambling regulation: While the hearing on July 8 isn’t centered on Internet gambling like…
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Chief Justice Roberts: Congress passed ACA to improve insurance markets, not destroy them
PBS.org quotes CEI`s Sam Kazman on the Kings vs. Burwell Supreme Court Desicion: Sam Kazman, Competitive Enterprise Institute: Today’s ruling is a tragedy for…
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Controversy builds at U.S. consumer protection bureau
The Human Events quotes CEI`s John Berlau on the Consumer Protection Bureau office renovations:…
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Good times, bad times — Rider right by my side — Hill docs call for keeping ozone
The POLITICO quotes CEI`s Marlo Lewis on the Pope`s encyclical: GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES: It’s been more than 48 hours since Pope Francis’…
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Former OCR Lawyer Hans Bader Responds to Finding of Title IX Violation at Harvard Law School
The Torch (FIRE) quotes CEI`s Hans Bader on violation of Title IX. at Harvard Law School: Last week, the Department of Education’s Office…
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Labor and Employment Roundup
Overlawyered cites CEI`s Hans Bader: President Obama keeps promoting myths about Lilly Ledbetter case [Hans Bader, CEI]…
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New Rule Empowers Union ‘Ambush Elections’
With declining union membership, the easiest way for the NLRB to help unions increase their ranks is limiting the time that workers have to contemplate the…
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Wall St. attacked, Main St. wounded
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In Support of Citizens United, Against Targeting Political Speech
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Stop the Insanity: How GOP Congress can lead way to smart energy policy
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Obama Administration Hot and Cold on Climate Warnings
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Obama Operative Joins Taxpayer-Backed Solar Company
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I, Pencil: Resources and Curriculum
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Supreme Court Will Review King v. Burwell – CERTIORARI GRANTED
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Spanish Firm Under Federal Investigation Wins $230 Million in DOE Subsidies
A Spanish renewable energy company under investigation by at least two federal agencies unveiled a new biofuel production facility on Friday that will receive hundreds…
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What Is Plouffe’s Battle Plan?
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s decision to hire former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe raises some interesting questions. Uber, a social network offering consumers an attractive…
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Oklahoma v. Burwell
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Response questioned
David Heckman’s response (“A bad idea,” Your Views, Sept. 6) to my recent op-ed (“Tolls less regressive than gas taxes,” Views, Aug. 31) conflated mine…
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Back to School Roundup
Provision in proposed “Campus Accountability and Safety Act” (CASA) would incentivize fining colleges by letting Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights keep the proceeds […
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For Federal Contractors, a Hundred Little Compliance Plans
Coyote and Hans Bader write about yet another new burden loaded on federal contractors, involving the creation of separate affirmative action plans for…
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Eric Holder Avenges Investor Fraud by Taking from Victimized Investors
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Deputizing America
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Study: Collective Bargaining Slows Economic Growth, Lowers Wages
Collective bargaining may not be the boon for workers that labor unions claim it is, according to a new study. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…
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Dodd-Frank is the new ObamaCare
“If you like your life, home, and auto insurance, you can keep them.” No, President Obama didn’t utter those words when he signed the Dodd-Frank…
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New CEI Report Gives 10 Reasons to Abolish the Corrupt Export-Import Bank
New CEI Report Gives 10 Reasons to Abolish the Corrupt Export-Import Bank Time to End One of Government’s Largest Corporate Welfare Programs WASHINGTON,…
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Obamacare is a Game of Jenga
With the help of CEI, a group of small business owners from six states sued the federal government over an IRS regulation imposed under the…
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Proof and Campus Rape
To the Editor: Re “New Rules to Address Campus Rape” (editorial, June 30): It is unfortunate that the federal government now seeks to restrict…
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