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This week in ridiculous regulations: Crab specifications and dominant postal products

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/03/2025

More tariffs are on the way against China. President Trump announced that delayed tariffs against Canada and Mexico will go through. The actor Gene Hackman…

Deregulation

Blog

Trump labor department pick signals pro-market stance on joint employer, independent contract rules

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/28/2025

Keith Sonderling, Trump’s pick to deputy secretary of labor, the department’s second-ranking position, told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee this…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Presidential discretion allowed by the Impoundment Control Act

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 02/28/2025

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) publishing my paper this week about the possible constitutional arguments against the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. This…

Legal Studies

Blog

My State of the Union message: Restore separation of powers

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/28/2025

President Trump is giving a speech on March 4 to a joint session of Congress. In a syndicated column for Inside Sources, I argue…

Business and Government

Blog

Don’t let a government shutdown stop mergers

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 02/28/2025

With a March 14 deadline looming, the US is heading towards another government shutdown. Congressional Democrats seem willing to let funding lapse unless they…

Business and Government

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Alabama does DOGE with Stephanie Smith

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/27/2025

In this week’s episode we discuss poverty in Illinois, J.D. Vance on AI in Paris, the future of the Jones Act and…

Business and Government

Blog

SEC abandons legal arguments in favor of climate disclosure rule

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 02/26/2025

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced this month that it will no longer defend the indefensible, abandoning in court its arguments favoring mandatory…

Energy and Environment

Blog

With Section 230 under threat, Otherwise Objectionable tells the true story of the most misunderstood law on the internet

  • By: Travis Burk
  • 02/26/2025

Section 230, the foundational law that governs defamation liability online, has been under attack by partisans on both the left and the right in recent…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

The FROGs are back: Will White House hop to it on guidance documents?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/25/2025

Donald Trump’s 2019’s Executive Order 13891, “Promoting the Rule of Law through Improved Agency Guidance Documents,” established online portals and inventories at…

Deregulation

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: pillar coral and mailing cremains

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/24/2025

President Trump blamed Ukraine for its invasion by Russia and called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator. He also issued an executive order with potential to…

Business and Government

Blog

The SCRUB Act: Washing away Washington’s regulatory grime

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/21/2025

The Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act, introduced today by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), is a key step …

Deregulation

Blog

Lawsuit by Texas, Utah could change small reactor regulation

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 02/21/2025

The states of Texas and Utah—along with Last Energy, a company that builds small modular reactors—are suing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), arguing that it…

Energy

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Tossing gold bars off the Titanic is just the tip of the IRA iceberg

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 02/20/2025

The Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rushed to dole out billions of taxpayer dollars before President Donald Trump took office. A former Biden EPA official…

Energy and Environment

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Free the Economy podcast: Defend yourself from debanking with Nick Anthony

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/20/2025

In this week’s episode we discuss public confidence in the economy, California’s electric vehicle mandate, the prospect of a sovereign wealth fund…

Banking and Finance

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Trump executive order puts independent agencies on a leash

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/20/2025

President Trump’s new executive order, “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” marks a major shift in regulatory oversight by bringing independent agencies…

Deregulation

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Trump labor secretary pick backs right to work, disavows past support for union-tilted PRO Act

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/19/2025

President Trump’s pick to be labor secretary, former Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer, disavowed her past support for the union-tilted …

Labor and Employment

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CEI to Supreme Court: Please don’t let executive branch set tax rates

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 02/19/2025

Yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to recognize that only Congress has the authority to write the…

Law and Litigation

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Trump says labor law cannot prevent him from cleaning house at labor umpire agency

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/19/2025

President’s Trump’s letter firing National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairwoman Gwynne Wilcox and the NLRB’s general Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, makes the bold claim that…

Labor and Employment

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Animal personalities, individualism, and economics

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/18/2025

One of my hobbies is finding economics in unexpected places. The biologist and animal rescuer John Shivik’s 2017 book Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes: The…

Innovation

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This week in ridiculous regulations: flax revenue and female test dummies

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/18/2025

President Trump announced reciprocal tariffs. At this point it is uncertain how they would be implemented. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from butterfat testing to…

Regulatory Reform

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Free the Economy podcast: Pivot or Die with Gary Shapiro

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/13/2025

In this week’s episode we discuss corporate DEI mandates, financial surveillance at the Securities and Exchange Commission, medical fraud among Alzheimer’s…

Business and Government

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Goodbye to the roaring twenties of regulation? A cost roundup

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/12/2025

The final Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations from the Biden administration appeared January 15. Here at the middle…

Financial Regulation

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Sovereign wealth funds: Should governments invest in private businesses?

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/12/2025

President Trump recently signed an executive order to study creating a sovereign wealth fund for the US government. If the proposal comes to pass,…

Business and Government

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Trio of agencies scrap their climate disclosure mandate, SEC should take note

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 02/11/2025

Prior to Inauguration Day 2025, the Department of Defense (DoD), General Service Administration (GSA), and National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) collectively withdrew a…

Business and Government

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Big tech: threat or America’s best hope in global AI race? Questions for Trump antitrust appointees

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 02/11/2025

Continued scrutiny of tech companies by antitrust authorities is expected under the Trump administration, with two new nominees awaiting confirmation to the Department of…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

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Free speech at risk: Why website blocking bill goes too far

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 02/11/2025

Content creators have long complained about copyright infringing websites that deprive them of compensation. The Motion Picture Association claims infringement costs “hundreds of thousands…

Intellectual Property

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Free the Economy podcast: Improving state finances with OJ Oleka

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/10/2025

In this week’s episode we interview OJ Oleka, CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation. We talk about how the new administration…

Banking and Finance

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No, Virginia, there was no Amazon worker strike

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/10/2025

The labor protests launched by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters against Amazon over the Christmas holiday were nothing more than a hollow …

Private Unions

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This week in ridiculous regulations: Clothes dryers and nuclear reactors

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/10/2025

It was a slow week for the Federal Register and a busy week for everything else. President Trump announced 25 percent blanket tariffs against Canada…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Bill would delist Yellowstone grizzlies again

  • By: Jacob Tomasulo
  • 02/07/2025

Last month, Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced legislation, the Grizzly Bear State Management Act, which directs the Secretary of Interior to delist the…

Lands and Wildlife

Blog

We’re out of the Paris Agreement—again! How Trump can make it stick

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/06/2025

On Inauguration Day (January 20, 2025), President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, the global climate treaty negotiated by the…

Trade and International

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Congressional Review Act can cancel three bad appliance regs

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/05/2025

The Congressional Review Act (CRA) is the easiest way for Congress to block some of the bad regulations enacted under the Biden administration. A resolution…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

House should support the Protecting American Energy Production Act

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 02/05/2025

This week the House of Representatives is expected to consider the Protecting American Energy Production Act (H.R. 26), which was introduced by Rep.

Energy and Environment

Blog

Senate debanking hearing should focus on government’s role in politicizing finance

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/05/2025

Today the Senate Banking Committee is holding a hearing on debanking, which is the phenomenon of individuals and businesses in certain industries and with certain…

Banking and Finance

Blog

Agenda for Congress: Regulation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/04/2025

CEI’s new Agenda for Congress is out now. Each chapter contains pro-market policy recommendations in areas where CEI has expertise. Here are four principles…

Deregulation

Blog

Zero to prosperity? New Trump executive order is a good start

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/03/2025

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has brought a wave of executive orders, including his new “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation” directive. Building on…

Deregulation

Blog

The good, the bad, and the ugly in Trump’s new regulation executive order

  • By: James Broughel
  • 02/03/2025

President Donald Trump issued a new executive order on regulation Friday reviving some of the core ideas from his first term. The order brings…

Deregulation

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Trump’s unilateral tariffs: Time for Congress to do its job

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/03/2025

Over the weekend, President Trump announced 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico, though Canadian energy imports will face a lower 10 percent rate. He…

Trade and International

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Automatic brakes and horse protection amendments

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/03/2025

Sixty-seven people died when a military helicopter and a passenger jet collided near Reagan Airport. President Trump issued an Executive Order to stop all federal…

Deregulation

Blog

Agenda for Congress: Inflation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/03/2025

CEI’s new Agenda for Congress is out now. Each chapter contains pro-market policy recommendations in areas where CEI has expertise. Here are the ones…

Financial Regulation

Blog

Coinbase’s FOIA complaints against FDIC raise serious government transparency concerns 

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 01/31/2025

In the waning days of the Biden administration, whistleblowers and investigative journalists put forth alarming revelations of financial regulators jawboning banks to cut off services…

Government Transparency

Blog

The One Agency Act, so hot right now

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 01/30/2025

The 119th Congress has reignited old conversations regarding antitrust enforcement in the US. Namely, do we need two agencies to enforce the antitrust laws? Rep.

Antitrust

Blog

Agenda for Congress: Trade

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/30/2025

CEI’s new Agenda for Congress is out now. Each chapter contains pro-market policy recommendations in areas where CEI has expertise. Here are the ones…

Trade and International

Blog

Hawley offers gift to union leaders, not workers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/30/2025

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) reportedly has proposed a “pro-worker framework for the 119th Congress” that amounts to a watered down wishlist of items wanted by unions leaders.

Labor and Employment

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Trump vs. the Regulatory State with Susan Dudley

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/30/2025

In this week’s episode we cover how the feds are forcing your bank to spy on you, a new strategy for housing…

Deregulation

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Trump sketches out a battle plan on housing affordability

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/29/2025

Housing affordability has become a front burner issue, and President Trump spared no time setting out his plan targeting the government regulations and red tape…

Deregulation

Blog

A game-changing Trump executive order could nuke regulatory dark matter

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/29/2025

In the wake of Donald Trump’s flurry of executive actions—including implementing a regulatory freeze, eradicating Biden’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and staffing, and…

Deregulation

Blog

Regulators need to cool off and slow down their rulemakings

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 01/28/2025

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) has reintroduced an important bill that would make the administrative rulemaking process fairer for the public. Known as the “Regulatory…

Deregulation

Blog

Trump follows Biden precedent in sacking NLRB general counsel 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/28/2025

President Trump’s decision to fire National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairwoman Gwynne Wilcox and general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is controversial and will likely be challenged…

Labor and Employment

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Paper packaging and de minimis imports

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/27/2025

Presidents Biden issued a slew of executive actions on his way out of office. President Trump issued a slew of executive actions on his way into office.

Deregulation

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