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How the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Payday Loan Rule Hurts the Working Poor

  • By: Daniel Press
  • 01/16/2018

View Full Document as PDF Ariane is a 22-year-old single mother from Oakland, California. Working a low-wage job, she gets by paycheck…

Banking and Finance

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Modernizing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 01/04/2018

View Full Document as PDF Thousands of times per year in the United States, automobile drivers are temporarily blinded by the high…

Automobiles and Roads

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Improving America’s Broadband through Competition, Not Regulation

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/06/2017

View Full Document as PDF Should the government regulate the Internet like a public utility? This policy question has vexed U.S. lawmakers…

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The Case against the Volcker Rule

  • By: Daniel Press, John Berlau
  • 11/30/2017

View Full Document as PDF The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has severely restricted business and consumer access…

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A Veneer of Certainty Stoking Climate Alarm

  • By: Rupert Darwall
  • 11/28/2017

View Full Document as PDF Foreword by Judith Curry, President of the Climate Forecast Applications Network and former Professor and Chair of…

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Still Endanger U.S. Economy

  • By: John Berlau
  • 11/08/2017

View Full Document as PDF Nearly a decade since the housing bust of 2008 sent the U.S. economy into a tailspin, much…

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Let States Regulate Sports Gambling within their Borders

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 10/17/2017

View Full Document as PDF Every year, millions of Americans gamble on sports. Whether betting on the Super Bowl or filling out…

Consumer Freedom

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The Case against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 09/21/2017

The CFPB was meant to protect American pocketbooks and property. But the unconstitutionally structured agency is harmful to consumers.

Banking and Finance

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Bureaucratic Dark Energy

  • By: Robert J. Hanrahan, Jr.
  • 09/19/2017

View Full Document as PDF There are thousands of felonies committed every day in Washington, D.C. Not in the places one might…

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What’s the Difference between “Major,” “Significant,” and all those other Federal Rule Categories?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/13/2017

View Full Document as PDF Bureaucracy, rather than interaction with elected representatives, dominates the relationship of the individual to the government. The…

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Shrinking Government Bureaucracy

  • By: Iain Murray, John Berlau, Kent Lassman, Myron Ebell, Ryan Radia, Trey Kovacs
  • 09/06/2017

View Full Document as PDF Shrinking Government Bureaucracy is a series of policy proposals by Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) experts to rein in…

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Union Time on the Taxpayer Dime

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 08/31/2017

View Full Document as PDF Published with the James Madison Institute Over the past 20 years, Floridians have consistently made conscious decisions…

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Rethinking the Environmental Protection Agency

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 08/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget is the most impenetrable of all federal department and agency…

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Rethinking the Federal Communications Commission

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 08/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF Created by the Communications Act of 1934, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wields broad authority to regulate…

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Rethinking the National Labor Relations Board

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 08/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency that oversees private sector labor relations in the…

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Rethinking the Securities and Exchange Commission

  • By: John Berlau
  • 08/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF The nation’s securities laws and the very existence of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are premised…

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Rethinking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 08/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) should be abolished. In its current form, it undermines the constitutional…

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Rethinking the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 08/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and Congress created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) during the Great…

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Rethinking the Department of Commerce

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 08/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF The Department of Commerce’s mission statement is a charter for government interference in markets. It employs 47,000…

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EPA Denial of Chlorpyrifos Ban Sets Pro-Science Precedent

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 08/10/2017

View full document as PDF Some consumers may wonder why some staples of a healthy diet, such as orange juice and many…

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Ending the EPA’s Billion-Dollar Green Energy Rip-Off

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 08/08/2017

View Full Document as PDF The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in recent years has established a pattern of making industrial policy…

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Why Wall Street Loves Glass-Steagall

  • By: Daniel Press, John Berlau
  • 08/02/2017

View Full Document as PDF Debates over financial regulation often refer to “Wall Street” and “Main Street” as shorthand for, respectively, 1)…

Banking and Finance

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Authorizing Automated Vehicle Platooning, 2017 Edition

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 07/19/2017

View Full Document as PDF Automated vehicles have captured the public’s imagination in recent years following successful on-road demonstrations by developers such…

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Dispelling Six Myths on Air Traffic Control Reform and Labor Relations

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 06/21/2017

View Full Document as PDF In 2016, when House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) introduced legislation to reform the…

Transportation

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Air Traffic Control Reform 2017: Frequently Asked Questions

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 06/21/2017

View Full Document as PDF The air traffic control reforms contained in the 21st Century Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization (21st Century AIRR)…

Transportation

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Ten Thousand Commandments 2017

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/25/2017

The burden of federal regulations on the American public reached a record $1.9 trillion last year. That amounts to a hidden tax of nearly $15,000 per…

Regulatory Reform

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The World Bank’s Trail of Sorrows

  • By: Paul J. Georgia
  • 05/23/2017

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Banking and Finance

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Kyoto: The Issue Is Power

  • By: Jack Kemp
  • 05/23/2017

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Free Market Environmental Bibliography

  • By: Jonathan H. Adler
  • 05/23/2017

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Getting It Wrong: Energy Forecasts and the End-of-Technology Mindset

  • By: Mark P. Mills
  • 05/23/2017

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Ecology as Religion: Faith in Place of Fact

  • By: Doug Bandow
  • 05/23/2017

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Dirty Dozen

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/23/2017

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A Net Neutrality Primer

  • By: Jessica Melugin, Ryan Radia
  • 05/15/2017

View Full Document as PDF If you have watched Last Week Tonight with John Oliver recently, you will have noticed that its…

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The Legal and Economic Case Against the Paris Climate Treaty

  • By: Christopher C. Horner, Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/03/2017

Failure to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty would entrench a constitutionally damaging precedent, set President Trump’s domestic and foreign policies in conflict, and ensure…

Energy and Environment

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Polluted Logic Taints WHO Reports on Children’s Health

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 05/02/2017

View Full Document as PDF The world has been getting wealthier in recent decades. That economic growth has enabled millions of people…

Trade and International

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Five Key Financial Regulation Reforms

  • By: John Berlau
  • 04/24/2017

View Full Document as PDF First there was “fintech,” now there is “regtech.” Fintech—short for “financial technology”—is the popular term to describe…

Banking and Finance

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Economic Freedom Is Key to African Development

  • By: Daniel Press, Iain Murray
  • 04/19/2017

View Full Document as PDF Many African nations have made great economic strides in recent years. As well as improving Africa’s per…

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It Is Time to End Official Time

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/18/2017

View Full Document as PDF For years, federal employee unions have enjoyed a government subsidy that enables their members to perform union…

Labor and Employment

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A Case for Property Rights in the Electromagnetic Spectrum

  • By: Joseph Kane, Ryan Radia
  • 04/05/2017

View Full Document as PDF The air that surrounds us may appear empty, but it is full of information that travels across…

Tech and Telecom

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Toward Performance-Based Transportation Safety Regulation

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 03/27/2017

View Full Document as PDF Businesses and entrepreneurs have long complained about having to comply with unnecessarily rigid regulations that stress adherence…

Transportation

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Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/13/2017

With regulatory dark matter, there are tens of thousands of documents that agencies can use to circumvent Congress, allowing the federal government to inject itself into…

Regulatory Reform

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Time to End the Madness around March Madness

  • By: Michelle Minton, Steven Titch
  • 03/01/2017

View Full Document as PDF This March, millions of Americans will join friends, relatives, and coworkers in the annual rite of betting…

Consumer Freedom

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Pirates at the Parchment Gates

  • By: Margaret A. Little
  • 02/06/2017

View Full Document as PDF In recent years, state attorneys general (AGs), have partnered with private lawyers working on a contingency fee…

Law and Litigation

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Resale Pricing in the Contact Lens Industry

  • By: Ryan Radia, W. Thomas Haynes
  • 01/19/2017

View Full Document as PDF More than 30 million Americans wear contact lenses. In recent years, contact lens technology has improved, offering…

Antitrust

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Shaking up the Conventional Wisdom on Salt

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 01/19/2017

View Full Document as PDF The notion that if you eat too much salt you will have high blood pressure has been…

Consumer Freedom

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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Champion Affordable Energy

  • 12/14/2016

View full document as PDF While President Trump will need legislative approval by Congress to accomplish parts of his economic policy agenda,…

Energy and Environment

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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Support Technology and Innovation

  • By: Jessica Melugin, Marc Scribner, Ryan Radia
  • 12/14/2016

View full document as PDF The frontier sectors that define the new high-tech economy are uniquely vulnerable to political predation and cronyism.

Tech and Telecom

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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Unleash America’s Labor Force

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 12/14/2016

View full document as PDF During the Obama administration the Department of Labor (DOL) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) failed to…

Labor and Employment

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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Restore Financial Freedom

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/14/2016

View full document as a PDF Over the past 15 years—beginning with the George W. Bush administration and accelerating rapidly in the…

Banking and Finance

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First Steps for the Trump Administration: Rein in the Regulatory State

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/14/2016

View full document as PDF President-elect Donald Trump has instructed members of his transition team to “develop a list of executive actions…

Regulatory Reform

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