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EPA’s Illegitimate Climate Rule
Full Document Available in PDF On June 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule under the Clean Air…
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Ten Reasons to Abolish the Export-Import Bank
This year’s Ex-Im Bank reauthorization is gearing up to be an even bigger fight. Here's 10 reasons why the Export-Import Bank should be abolished.
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Congress Needs to Repeal “Buy America” Law
View Full Onpoint Here Communities will pay excessively high prices for water infrastructure upgrades during the coming decades unless Congress repeals a…
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Republicans’ Bad Bet
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Self-Driving Regulation
Leonardo da Vinci first sketched the design for a self-propelled cart in the late 15th century. In 2010, Google announced its fleet of self-driving cars…
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How the UAW Lost Tennessee
In 2011, after state tax incentives lured Volkswagen to Chattanooga, Tennessee, the UAW saw its best chance of making the goal of unionizing a foreign…
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Bait and Reciprocal Switch
Full Document Available in PDF America’s freight railroad industry is one of the greatest success stories of economic liberalization. After decades of…
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Myths and Facts about the West Virginia Chemical Spill
Senior fellow and chemical policy expert, Angela Logomasini, Ph.D., released a report examining the myths and facts surrounding the Jan. 9 chemical spill in West…
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The Green Campaign Against Triclosan is Dangerous and Regressive
Environmental activists have sounded the alarm suggesting that consumers face serious health risks from the antibacterial chemical triclosan, which manufacturers have safely used in soap…
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Compound Fracture
Drug compounding involves reformulating or repackaging approved medicines to better tailor them to patients’ needs. Adding new federal regulations to further restrict compounding would do…
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BEER and Small BREW Can Be Good for You
America’s beer industry directly supports over 1 million jobs and nearly $100 billion in economic activity. However, the entire beer industry still faces the burden…
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What Is the Happiness Lobby?
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America Still Needs a True Entrepreneurship Visa
Immigrant entrepreneurs have long helped drive America’s economy. However, bureaucratic restrictions make coming to America to start a new business extremely difficult, and the current…
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The True Story of European Austerity
European governments that have cut spending and taxes have higher rates of economic growth than their neighbors. Then why do we hear lamentations from the…
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Reducing Passenger Train Procurement Costs
Full Document Available in PDF Interest in passenger rail around the United States has increased in recent years. With their ability to…
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Don’t Forget the Beer
Pennsylvania’s beer distribution system, designed to provide competitive advantages to in-state brewers, is nearly identical to Michigan’s wine distribution system that was the subject of…
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Avoid a Beer Monopoly By Setting the Market Free
The number of craft breweries continues to rise as states free up the market, making it easier for brewers to produce and sell their products.
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The Marketplace Fairness Act Would Create a State Sales Tax Cartel and Hurt Consumers
The Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832) seeks to capture more tax revenue for states on Internet purchases. Traditional retailers, states, and localities have urged Congress…
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Fixing Surface Transportation in Massachusetts
If all highway funding responsibility were to be devolved to the states, additional revenue must be found. Innovative financing, modern electronic tolling, and new roadway…
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Give a Man a Fish
Attempts to prevent overfishing by promulgating regulations (which are often at odds with subsidies) have proved both ineffective and impossible to enforce. Ending subsidies and…
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The Conservative Case for Immigration Tariffs
The current immigration system is a complex bureaucracy that sets quotas, fees, and arbitrary restrictions that prevent most immigrants from attempting legal immigration. Replacing that…
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The 400 Percent Loan, the $36,000 Hotel Room, and the Unicorn
Is a $16 surcharge on a $100 product unfair, unjust, and “predatory”? Hardly anyone flinches, for instance, at a $16 “resort fee” on a $100…
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Free Trade Without Apology
Congress needs to stop trying to appease organized labor and approve free trade deals on the treaties’ own merits.
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Anti-BPA Packaging Laws Jeopardize Public Health
Full Document Available in PDF In public policy, bad ideas have an unfortunate…
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Clearing the Air on the EPA’s False Regulatory Benefit-Cost Estimates and Its Anti-Carbon Agenda
The EPA’s anti-carbon campaign threatens to greatly undermine future U.S. economic growth and job creation, while doing virtually nothing to restrict global CO2 emissions, and,…
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The Case for Reform of the Railway Labor Act
End Unionization through Regulation and Allow Workers to Decertify Unions…
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Colorado’s Clean Air Clean Jobs Act Will Accomplish Neither
Government Officials and Special Interests Pushed HB 1365 on a Foundation of Fallacies…
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Is Wind the Next Ethanol?
One “Renewable” Energy Source Follows another’s History of Failure…
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Who Should Pay for the Gulf Oil Spill?
Liability and Incentive Issues Raised by the Deepwater Horizon Incident…
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Extreme Refreshment Crackdown
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 and Former Gov. George Allen…
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The Department of Defense Should Assess the Security Risks of Climate Change Policies
Full Document Available in PDF The Pentagon is perhaps the most influential…
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Truth or Consequences
The Benefits of Off-Label Drug and Device Promotion…
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This Land Ain’t your Land; this Land Is my Land
A Primer on Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and Entrepreneurship…
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Congressional Misdiagnosis
Why Repealing McCarran-Ferguson Will Harm Competition in Health Insurance Markets…
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A Cure Worse than the Disease
Obama Care Won’t Cut Costs, But May Cut Quality…
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FDA and Internet Advertising
The Medium is the Message…
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Your Retirement or Our Political Agenda
How Politicized Investment Strategies Threaten Workers’ Pensions…
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The Politicization of the FAA Reauthorization Act
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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Free Market Strategies for Insurance Reform
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.
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A Primer on the Employee Free Choice Act’s Arbitration Provision
EFCA clause allows government power to forcefully impose contracts on parties…
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National Regulatory Modernization for Insurers
Frequently Asked Questions on Standardizing National Insurance Laws…
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SERFF Liberation
The System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing Needs Competition…
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The Five Dumbest Product Bans, 2009
Eli Lehrer's Annual Review of Regulatory Absurdity…
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Card Check Double Standard
Unions’ Hypocrisy on the Secret Ballot…
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The Employee Free Choice Act Is Anything But
A Comparison of Labor Organizing Today vs. under EFCA…
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Black Box Panic
How the FDA’s Bad Science Leads to More Teen Suicides…
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The Truth About Online Gambling
Michelle Minton explores why government shouldn't treat gambling as if we lived in the Old West.
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Poker as a Game of Skill
Full document available in pdf It’s two minutes before the cards are…
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Let Credit Unions Lend More
Eli Lehrer makes the case for expanding credit union business lending, which would unlock otherwise idle capital and thereby help create jobs.
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The Railroad Competition and Service Improvement Act
Why Government-Enforced “Competition” Will Not Work.
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Compounding Catastrophe
Why Federal Involvement in State Catastrophe Insurance Is a Bad Idea…
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Catastrophe Funds and Reinsurance
Eli Lehrer answers and explores the most frequently asked questions about catastrophe funds and reinsurance.
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Massive Food and Land Costs of US Corn Ethanol
Biofuels have made the world use more corn than it can sustainably produce, creating massive food price hikes.
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FDA’s Bad Medicine
How the dispersed knowledge problem affects drug safety analysis and how markets and technology will help patients…
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Can Someone Deal Internet Poker a Good Hand?
Recent attempts to reform the legal environment for online gaming fall short.
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The United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Deserves a Vote
Sound trade and foreign policy is being held hostage to politics.
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Global Warming Economics
Facts vs. Myths: Iain Murray debunks the central global warming policy myths, and proposes an alternative way forward.
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Optional Federal Charter for Insurers
An optional federal charter for insurers would help consumers by creating competition between regulators.
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Toward a National Market for Insurance
A small step to liberalizing property and casualty insurance…
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The Consumer-Last Energy Bill
The Consumer-First Energy Act, intended to address the energy crisis, fails to achieve its stated purpose.
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Drug Reimportation’s Dangerous Allure
A Misguided Cost-Control Measure Guaranteed to Harm Patient Care…
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A Free Market Approach to Energy Security
Proposed measures to achieve "energy independence" have the potential to inflict significant economic damage on America.
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A Flawed Blueprint
America needs fundamental financial regulation reform. The Treasury Blueprint fails to provide it.
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Time to Fold the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
A bad law that could threaten America’s banking system…
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The Community Reinvestment Act’s Harmful Legacy
How the CRA has hurt those it was intended to help, residence of low income neighborhoods with little access to credit.
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The Case for Interstate Insurance Choice
Why Creating National Markets for Property and Casualty Insurance and Health Insurance Will Help Insurers and Consumers…
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The Five Dumbest Product Bans
This paper focuses on five clearly absurd product bans that seem to serve no social good.
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The Subprime Crisis in Historical Perspective
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Regulatory Competition: A Primer
Full Document Available in PDF Government regulation is often perceived as a good way to…
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The Credit Union Regulatory Improvement Act
Full Document Available in PDF This paper provides a free market perspective on…
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Promoting Healthy Biopharmaceutical Competition
Full Document Available in PDF The Hatch-Waxman Act, enacted by Congress 23 years ago,…
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A Non-Prescription for Confronting the Sub-Prime Crisis
Full Document Available in PDF I am so busy doing nothing…that the…
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Let Credit Unions Grow
Full Document Available in PDF When Americans deposit their paychecks, get loans, and make certain types…
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The Continuing Value of Privatization
Full Document Available in PDF As mayor of Indianapolis, Stephen Goldsmith applied what he called…
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Optional Federal Charter for Insurers: FAQ
Full Document Available in PDF This paper provides a free market perspective on the…
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Taxicab Medallions and Heirloom Tomatoes to the Rescue
Full Document Available in PDF When they seek to buy inventory, expand,…
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A Village’s Travail
Full Document Available in PDF Rosia Montana, a poor mining town in the Transylvanian…
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Keeping the Voices Alive
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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Ethanol is a Budget Buster
Full Document Available in PDF News story after news story highlights the impact of ethanol…
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The Flexibility Solution
Full Document Available in PDF America has not done enough to protect the networks of…
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Dying for FDA Reform
Full Document Available in PDF This year, Congress is considering a variety of legislative…
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Gone with the Wind
As part of comprehensive legislation to raise energy prices, the Senate is once again considering proposals to set a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) for electric…
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First, Do No Harm to Motorists
Sam Kazman explores why Congress should focus its attention not on making C.A.F.E. standards more stringent, but on scrapping them and, at a minimum, avoid…
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Why Price Gouging Doesn’t Exist
Full Document Available in PDF One Sunday in 2005, soon after…
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SOXing It to the Little Guy
Remember 1982, when video games, personal computers, and cordless phones were new—and the companies that made these products were new? If investors could travel back…
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Some Convenient Distortions
Full Document Available in PDF Former Vice President Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient…
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A Skeptic’s Primer on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
Full Document Available in PDF Former Vice President Al Gore’s…
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Giving Chase in Cyberspace
Full Document Available in PDF In the debate over identity theft and online security, commentators…
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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
Full Document Available in PDF An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), former Vice…
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Katrina and Her Policy Waves
Full Document Available in PDF A year on, global warming alarmists are…
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Global Warming FAQ
Full Document Available in PDF Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted…
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Greening a Homeland Bureaucracy: Chemical Plant Security Issue Hijacked by Green Activists
Full Document Available in PDF Nearly…
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The U.N.’s Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management Program
Full Document Available in PDF In February 2006, at…
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“But now all the stations are silenced, ’cause they ain’t got a government license”
Broadcasting has come a long way since the pioneer punk band The Clash blasted Britain's radio regulators with that line in 1979, but in some…
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Breaking Patents
The integrity of patents affects the future health of people the world over. Unfortunately, one of the world’s rising economic players is leading the charge…
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DDT Saves Lives in Fight against Malaria
Full Document Available in PDF The President’s decision in June to…
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The Nationalization of Basic Science
Full Document Available in PDF The National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
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What Every European Should Know About Global Warming, by Iain Murray
Full Document Available in PDF Overview. Alarm over the prospect…
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Boeing vs. Airbus
Full Document Available in PDF The United States and the European Union (EU) may be on…