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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…