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A Drought of Reason and Investigation

  • By: Alex Nowrasteh
  • 06/16/2010

An Examination and Critique of the Center for Immigration Studies’ “A Drought of Summer Jobs”…

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Extreme Refreshment Crackdown

  • By: Baylen J. Linnekin
  • 05/27/2010

The FDA’s Misguided Campaign Against Alcohol Energy Drinks…

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Overturning EPA’s Endangerment Finding Is a Constitutional Imperative

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/19/2010

By Marlo Lewis and Former Gov. George Allen…

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The Department of Defense Should Assess the Security Risks of Climate Change Policies

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/20/2010

 Full Document Available in PDF   The Pentagon is perhaps the most influential…

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Ten Thousand Commandments 2010

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/15/2010

Full Document Available in PDF President Barack Obama’s federal budget for fiscal year (FY) 2011 proposes $3.83 trillion in discretionary, entitlement, and…

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Truth or Consequences

  • By: Gregory Conko, Jerome Arnett
  • 04/12/2010

The Benefits of Off-Label Drug and Device Promotion…

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Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 04/06/2010

Horner's new book coming out Monday, April 19, from Regnery Publishing.

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This Land Ain’t your Land; this Land Is my Land

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 03/03/2010

A Primer on Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and Entrepreneurship…

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Copenhagen Climate Conference

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 03/01/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Green activists are appalled that last December’s UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, did not produce…

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Shackling Innovation

  • By: Sigrid Fry-Revere
  • 02/03/2010

The Regulation of Industry-Supported Clinical Trials…

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Celling Fear: The Cell Phone Scare that Refuses to Die

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 01/22/2010

Soon would-be cell phone buyers in Maine might be checking out the latest models, only to find a jarring red box on each unit…

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The Ultimate Payoff

  • By: Ivan Osorio
  • 01/04/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The December issue of Labor Watch looked at the growing influence of the 2.1-million…

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Congressional Misdiagnosis

  • By: Gregory Conko, Kevin Hilferty
  • 12/08/2009

Why Repealing McCarran-Ferguson Will Harm Competition in Health Insurance Markets…

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Payment Card Networks Under Assault

  • By: John Berlau, Ryan Radia
  • 12/03/2009

How Capping Interchange Fees Will Hurt Consumers, Charities, Community Banks, and Credit Unions…

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Organization Man

  • By: Ivan Osorio
  • 12/01/2009

How Andrew Stern Plans to Transform the Union Movement…

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A Cure Worse than the Disease

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 10/22/2009

Obama Care Won’t Cut Costs, But May Cut Quality…

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FDA and Internet Advertising

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 10/06/2009

The Medium is the Message…

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Your Retirement or Our Political Agenda

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 09/30/2009

How Politicized Investment Strategies Threaten Workers’ Pensions…

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The Politicization of the FAA Reauthorization Act

  • By: Russ Brown
  • 09/29/2009

It is hard to imagine Congress looking for ways to saddle a key sector with new taxes and restrictions. But that is exactly what Rep.

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The Geopolitics of Climate: Cutting Through the Spin on International Climate Agreements

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 09/25/2009

Full Document Available in PDF   With the G20 group in Pittsburgh discussing global warming negotiations at President Obama’s insistence, the public needs to…

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Restoring the Private Property-Insurance Market to Reduce Florida’s Risk of Financial Insolvency

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/10/2009

Full Document Available in PDF   Foreward by Robert F. Sanchez, Policy Director, The James Madison Institute   As Florida faces a…

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Political Malpractice

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 09/08/2009

Most Americans agree that our health care system is broken. But it is increasingly clear that what ails health care is not too little, but…

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Principles for Property Mitigation Discounts

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 08/21/2009

Legislators should be wary of efforts to mandate specific mitigation discounts without paying attention to the myriad other factors that can play a major role…

Insurance

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Free Market Strategies for Insurance Reform

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 07/15/2009

Two major proposals to regulate insurance federally have appeared. The first, the National Insurance Consumer Protection Act. The second proposal stems from the Obama administration.

Insurance

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A Primer on the Employee Free Choice Act’s Arbitration Provision

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 06/25/2009

EFCA clause allows government power to forcefully impose contracts on parties…

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California’s New Diesel Regulation Is All Pain for No Gain

  • By: Jerome Arnett
  • 06/23/2009

California's new diesel truck regulations would drive business out of the state…

Energy and Environment

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National Regulatory Modernization for Insurers

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Michelle Minton
  • 06/18/2009

Frequently Asked Questions on Standardizing National Insurance Laws…

Insurance

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Hurricane Damage and Global Warming

  • By: Daniel Sutter
  • 06/03/2009

How bad could it get and what can we do about it today?…

Climate

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Ten Thousand Commandments 2009

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/28/2009

Wayne Crews' annual accounting of the hidden taxes of regulation.

Antitrust

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Property and Casualty Insurance 2009 Report Card

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 05/18/2009

Full Document Available in PDF   For the second year in a row,…

Insurance

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SERFF Liberation

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 05/01/2009

The System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing Needs Competition…

Insurance

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The Case for Compensating Live Organ Donors

  • By: Jennifer Monti
  • 04/23/2009

Full Document Available in PDF Conflicting opinions on the ethics of organ…

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Why Florida Should Not Receive a Pre-Funded Federal Bailout

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 04/14/2009

Full Document Available in PDF Since early 2009, Florida state…

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Pharmaceutical Evolution

  • By: Albert I. Wertheimer, Thomas M. Santella
  • 04/07/2009

Albert I. Wertheimer and Thomas M. Santella explain the advantages of incremental innovation in drug development.  Photo: CC <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joethorn/86495698/">Joe Thorn</a>.

Health and Safety

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The Five Dumbest Product Bans, 2009

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 04/01/2009

Eli Lehrer's Annual Review of Regulatory Absurdity…

Consumer Freedom

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Card Check Double Standard

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 03/24/2009

Unions’ Hypocrisy on the Secret Ballot…

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The Employee Free Choice Act Is Anything But

  • By: Ivan Osorio, Russ Brown
  • 03/24/2009

A Comparison of Labor Organizing Today vs. under EFCA…

Business and Government

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Restoring the Private Property-Insurance Market To Reduce Florida’s Risk of Financial Insolvency

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 03/22/2009

Eli Lehrer examines why Florida could very well become financially insolvent.

Insurance

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Black Box Panic

  • By: Gregory Conko, Jerome Arnett
  • 03/03/2009

How the FDA’s Bad Science Leads to More Teen Suicides…

Health and Safety

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The Truth About Online Gambling

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 02/19/2009

Michelle Minton explores why government shouldn't treat gambling as if we lived in the Old West.

Business and Government

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Poker as a Game of Skill

  • By: Adam Ross
  • 02/19/2009

Full document available in pdf It’s two minutes before the cards are…

Business and Government

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Bottled Water and the Overflowing Nanny State

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 02/17/2009

In her study Angela Logomasini's analyzes how misinformation about bottled water erodes consumer freedom…

Consumer Freedom

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Let Credit Unions Lend More

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 02/11/2009

Eli Lehrer makes the case for expanding credit union business lending, which would unlock otherwise idle capital and thereby help create jobs.

Banking and Finance

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Dr. John P. Holdren

  • By: William Yeatman
  • 01/13/2009

William Yeatman explains why the U.S. Senate should not confirm Dr. John P. Holdren's nomination for White House Science Adviser.

Energy

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The Railroad Competition and Service Improvement Act

  • By: Jennifer Smith-Bozek
  • 12/11/2008

Why Government-Enforced “Competition” Will Not Work.

Business and Government

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The Case for Reforming U.S. Guest Worker Programs

  • By: Arin Greenwood
  • 12/04/2008

Arin Greenwood's Study explores why guest worker programs are important and how we can make them better.

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Compounding Catastrophe

  • By: Arin Greenwood
  • 12/02/2008

Why Federal Involvement in State Catastrophe Insurance Is a Bad Idea…

Insurance

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Catastrophe Funds and Reinsurance

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 11/13/2008

Eli Lehrer answers and explores the most frequently asked questions about catastrophe funds and reinsurance.

Insurance

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Massive Food and Land Costs of US Corn Ethanol

  • By: Dennis Avery
  • 10/30/2008

Biofuels have made the world use more corn than it can sustainably produce, creating massive food price hikes.

Energy

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How EESA Might Impact Property and Casualty Insurance

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/15/2008

Full Document Available in PDF This paper explores the ways…

Insurance

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Facts About the AIG Collapse: A Response to the NAIC

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/26/2008

Full Document Available in PDF Following the collapse…

Business and Government

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Exploring Wind Insurance as a Pilot Program

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/10/2008

A pilot federal program could cost taxpayers more than a larger program while destabilizing the National Flood Insurance Program…

Insurance

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Public Stem Cell Research Funding

  • By: Molly Elgin, Sigrid Fry-Revere
  • 09/03/2008

The best way to make progress in stem cell research is to allow the private sector to grow, unimpeded by regulation and controversy.

Health and Safety

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Airline Deregulation

  • By: Braden Cox, Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/18/2008

If the government deregulates the grid and transitions toward a market solution, the benefits of flow deregulation will increase, and costs for air travelers will…

Aviation

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FDA’s Bad Medicine

  • By: Gregory Conko, Jerome Arnett
  • 08/13/2008

How the dispersed knowledge problem affects drug safety analysis and how markets and technology will help patients…

Health and Safety

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North Carolina’s Unfair Auto Insurance System

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 07/29/2008

North Carolina’s government-controlled auto insurance subsidizes risky and dangerous drivers by overcharging good driver…

Insurance

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Reforming the National Flood Insurance Program after 35 Years of Failure

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 07/24/2008

It is time to rethink a federal program that has caused much harm.

Insurance

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The Federal Government Should Leave Gamblers Alone

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 07/23/2008

Why the Market Can Best Discipline Online Gambling…

Business and Government

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Can Someone Deal Internet Poker a Good Hand?

  • By: Arin Greenwood
  • 07/15/2008

Recent attempts to reform the legal environment for online gaming fall short.

Business and Government

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Ten Thousand Commandments

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 07/10/2008

CEI's Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State…

Antitrust

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The United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Deserves a Vote

  • By: Fran Smith, Ryan Young
  • 07/02/2008

Sound trade and foreign policy is being held hostage to politics.

Labor and Employment

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Global Warming Economics

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 06/19/2008

Facts vs. Myths: Iain Murray debunks the central global warming policy myths, and proposes an alternative way forward.

Climate

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Optional Federal Charter for Insurers

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Michelle Minton
  • 06/18/2008

An optional federal charter for insurers would help consumers by creating competition between regulators.

Business and Government

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Toward a National Market for Insurance

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 06/06/2008

A small step to liberalizing property and casualty insurance…

Business and Government

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The Climate Security Act S. 2191/S. 3036

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/30/2008

Full Document Available in PDF A tax Cap-and-trade can only work by raising…

Climate

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Blue Planet in Green Shackles

  • By: Václav Klaus
  • 05/30/2008

New book by His Excellency Václav Klaus President of the Czech Republic back in stock at Amazom.com after initial stock sold out…

Business and Government

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The Consumer-Last Energy Bill

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Iain Murray
  • 05/13/2008

The Consumer-First Energy Act, intended to address the energy crisis, fails to achieve its stated purpose.

Energy

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Drug Reimportation’s Dangerous Allure

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 04/24/2008

A Misguided Cost-Control Measure Guaranteed to Harm Patient Care…

Health and Safety

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The Really Inconvenient Truths

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 04/22/2008

From the Inside Flap Al Gore is bad for the planet… Talk about really inconvenient truths–that's one of the many you'll find in Iain Murray's…

Chemical Risk

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A Free Market Approach to Energy Security

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 04/17/2008

Proposed measures to achieve "energy independence" have the potential to inflict significant economic damage on America.

Energy

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A Flawed Blueprint

  • By: Eli Lehrer, John Berlau
  • 04/10/2008

America needs fundamental financial regulation reform. The Treasury Blueprint fails to provide it.

Business and Government

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California’s Energy Policy

  • By: Thomas Tanton
  • 04/01/2008

Full Document Available in PDF Global warming policies championed by former Vice President…

Climate

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Time to Fold the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 03/27/2008

A bad law that could threaten America’s banking system…

Business and Government

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The Community Reinvestment Act’s Harmful Legacy

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 03/20/2008

How the CRA has hurt those it was intended to help, residence of low income neighborhoods with little access to credit.

Banking and Finance

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Some Answers about Credit Unions

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Michelle Minton
  • 03/18/2008

A recent, widely circulated advertisement from the American Bankers Association asks some questions of the credit union industry. They’re good questions and, in…

Banking and Finance

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Property and Casualty Insurance Report Card

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 03/14/2008

Full Document Available in PDF According to Barron’s, the U.S. dominates the…

Insurance

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The Case for Interstate Insurance Choice

  • By: Ned Andrews
  • 03/13/2008

Why Creating National Markets for Property and Casualty Insurance and Health Insurance Will Help Insurers and Consumers…

Insurance

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Ecuador Mining News’ Investor Survey: A Mixed Bag

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 03/13/2008

The EMN Investor Concerns Survey, an initiative of this publication, reveals that half of respondents want to keep their mining stocks in firms operating in…

Energy and Environment

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First Steps toward Restoring Florida’s Insurance Market

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 03/01/2008

Full Document Available in PDF As Florida’s Legislature proceeds with its…

Business and Government

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The Five Dumbest Product Bans

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 02/26/2008

This paper focuses on five clearly absurd product bans that seem to serve no social good.

Banking and Finance

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Still Stimulating Like It’s 1999

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/20/2008

Full Document Available in PDF Facing an economic…

Business and Government

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Restoring Florida’s Insurance Market

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 02/06/2008

By the end of the 1990s, Florida’s property insurance market had largely recovered from the effects of 1992’s Hurricane Andrew, one of the costliest storms…

Insurance

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Pros and Cons of Optional Federal Chartering for Insurers

  • By: Jennifer Smith-Bozek
  • 01/15/2008

Full Document Available in PDF The National Insurance…

Insurance

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The Subprime Crisis in Historical Perspective

  • By: Eli Lehrer, Matthew Glans
  • 01/07/2008

Full Document Available in PDF In recent weeks, it has become difficult…

Study

Regulatory Competition: A Primer

  • By: Jennifer Smith-Bozek
  • 12/18/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Government regulation is often perceived as a good way to…

Business and Government

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Politically Determined Entertainment Ratings and How to Avoid Them

  • By: Cord Blomquist, Eli Lehrer
  • 12/11/2007

Full Document Available in PDF When they…

Consumer Freedom

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The Credit Union Regulatory Improvement Act

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 12/06/2007

Full Document Available in PDF This paper provides a free market perspective on…

Business and Government

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Promoting Healthy Biopharmaceutical Competition

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 11/29/2007

Full Document Available in PDF The Hatch-Waxman Act, enacted by Congress 23 years ago,…

Health and Safety

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A Non-Prescription for Confronting the Sub-Prime Crisis

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 11/08/2007

Full Document Available in PDF I am so busy doing nothing…that the…

Business and Government

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Web Memo: How an OFC Would Impact the States

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 11/02/2007

Introduction…

Insurance

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Let Credit Unions Grow

  • By: Will McBride
  • 10/30/2007

Full Document Available in PDF When Americans deposit their paychecks, get loans, and make certain types…

Business and Government

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The Continuing Value of Privatization

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/26/2007

Full Document Available in PDF As mayor of Indianapolis, Stephen Goldsmith applied what he called…

Business and Government

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South Carolina’s Omnibus Coastal Insurance Legislation

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/17/2007

Full Document Available in PDF In early 2007, South Carolina…

Insurance

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The United States-South Korea Free Trade Agreement

  • By: Gabriel Sahlgren
  • 10/11/2007

Full Document Available in PDF A specter is haunting organized labor—the…

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Optional Federal Charter for Insurers: FAQ

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 10/02/2007

Full Document Available in PDF This paper provides a free market perspective on the…

Insurance

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The Law of the Sea Treaty

  • By: Doug Bandow
  • 09/25/2007

The genesis of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), widely known as the “constitution of the oceans,” runs back more than 60 years. The…

Law and Litigation

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Taxicab Medallions and Heirloom Tomatoes to the Rescue

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/18/2007

Full Document Available in PDF When they seek to buy inventory, expand,…

Business and Government

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A Village’s Travail

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Julie Walsh
  • 09/12/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Rosia Montana, a poor mining town in the Transylvanian…

Energy and Environment

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Keeping the Voices Alive

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/06/2007

And the night was alive With a thousand voices Fighting to be heard And each and every one of them Connected to me. - Maury…

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The Green Regulatory State

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 08/30/2007

Full Document Available in PDF Over the years, the environmental lobby has advanced a considerable…

Chemical Risk

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