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Why the PROVE IT Act would result in carbon taxes

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 04/29/2024

The PROVE IT Act (S. 1863) is not a benign information collection bill on the carbon intensity of domestic and foreign goods. Instead, it…

Energy and Environment

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This week in ridiculous regulations: airline fees and greenhouse gas reporting

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/29/2024

The Federal Register grew at nearly triple its usual pace last week. It is on pace for its first-ever 100,000-page year. GDP growth slowed to…

Deregulation

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Frontier economics with Kendall Cotton

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 04/26/2024

In this week’s episode we cover the diamond jubilee of the Philadelphia Society, the cost of government regulation in the UK, the…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

EPA’s new powerplant rule is the Clean Power Plan on steroids

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/26/2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced its final rule establishing carbon dioxide (CO2) emission performance standards for existing coal powerplants and new…

Energy and Environment

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Weak GDP is first stress test for inflation fighters

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/25/2024

I have been saying for a while that inflation expectations will remain high until policymakers prove they can restrain their stimulus spending during an economic…

Monetary Policy

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Small banks targeted as FDIC cracks down on technology partnerships

  • By: John Berlau
  • 04/24/2024

Earlier this week, Politico’s “Morning Money” column reported an astonishing finding that almost certainly points to politicization in enforcement by federal bank regulators. The…

Business and Government

Blog

US move to ban TikTok a troubling signal for our great experiment in self-determination

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/24/2024

As a part of a foreign aid funding package, the Senate passed a bill mandating TikTok’s divestiture from Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance. Biden…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

The flawed foundations of radiation risk assessment

  • By: James Broughel
  • 04/24/2024

The debate surrounding nuclear power has long been shaped by complex scientific, political, and social factors. At the heart of this debate lies the question…

Energy

Blog

FTC approves ban on noncompete agreements, sets up potential court battle

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 04/23/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to ban the vast majority of noncompete agreements in employment contracts during a special open commission meeting this…

Eye on FTC

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Major questions on net neutrality: A new report

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 04/23/2024

A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report, Major Questions on Net Neutrality: A primer on the FCC’s brewing broadband legal fight, analyzes the FCC’s effort…

Innovation

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New UK report recommends ‘rules about rules’ for regulation

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 04/23/2024

In a new report, the Center for Policy Studies in the UK surveys that nation’s regulatory landscape – and doesn’t like what it sees.

Business and Government

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The vital role of private conservation: A different perspective on Earth Day

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/23/2024

Amidst the jubilation over government-led environmental initiatives on yet another Earth Day yesterday, it’s crucial to highlight a perspective too often overlooked: private conservation, rather…

Energy and Environment

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FTC tightens grip over its in-house judges

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 04/22/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) possesses one of the most conflicted administrative law court (ALC) systems. The agency recently began hiring new administrative…

Eye on FTC

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This week in ridiculous regulations: service lamps and summer meals

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/22/2024

Congress debated aid bills to Ukraine and Israel. Donald Trump’s hush money trial began. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from incinerator permits to effluent analysis.

Deregulation

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Seattle’s new minimum wage rule undermining delivery drivers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/19/2024

A new Seattle minimum wage law meant to boost the incomes of app-based delivery drivers has instead backfired, resulting in less work for drivers. Some…

Business and Government

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Department of Energy is coming after our light bulbs – again

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/19/2024

We have already said goodbye to the incandescent light bulb, thanks to federal regulations. Will its replacement be next? Department of Energy (DOE) efficiency regulations…

Energy

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Free the Economy podcast: Heroes of Progress with Alexander Hammond

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 04/18/2024

In this week’s episode we discuss venture capitalists fighting red tape, challenges to electric vehicle adoption, Americans sleeping on the job,…

Human Achievement Hour

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The FCC regulation web – again

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 04/18/2024

In a January blog I discussed the needless web of regulation created by the FCC’s classification of broadband as a Title II common carrier…

Tech and Telecom

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Biden says his steel tariffs totally different from Trump’s, speculates uncle was eaten by cannibals

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/17/2024

President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday that he would get tough on China’s steel dumping by tripling tariffs on imports. He argued this was totally different…

Trade and International

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Sunshine in Wyoming’s civil forfeiture

  • 04/16/2024

Transparency in civil forfeiture took a small step forward last week when the Wyoming Liberty Group published its latest report. One difficulty in writing about…

Property Rights

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The eventual federal regulatory budget has bipartisan roots

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/15/2024

With apologies to Margaret Thatcher, I’ll often joke that when the federal government runs out of other people’s money, it keeps spending anyway. The Congressional…

Deregulation

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This week in ridiculous regulations: train crews and airport concessions

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/15/2024

Our colleague R.J. Smith passed away. R.J. coined the term “free-market environmentalism,” ran CEI’s private conservation efforts for many years, and was a valued…

Deregulation

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Bees are flourishing again. Thanks, capitalism!

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 04/12/2024

You can relax, everyone: The honeybees are back. As Andrew Van Dorn of the Washington Post reported recently, America suddenly now has a record…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

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Wi-Fi on wheels: FCC oversteps its authority with school bus ruling

  • By: David S. McFadden
  • 04/12/2024

This week the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed an amicus brief regarding yet another case of mission creep in the Biden administration. In this instance,…

Law and Litigation

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Spectrum spectacle: Security and competitiveness demand action on spectrum

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 04/12/2024

We are familiar with the proverb “He who hesitates is lost.” Unfortunately, the United States is hesitating in allocating more spectrum to the marketplace and…

Tech and Telecom

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Free the Economy podcast: Censorship by proxy with Jenin Younes

  • 04/11/2024

In this week’s episode we cover Gen Z job satisfaction, dumb biotech policy in the European Union, and figuring out how…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

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Green rules, red tape: What American farmers can learn from EU protests

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 04/11/2024

The European Union (EU) has been implementing various measures to fundamentally transform the agricultural sector, notably through initiatives such as the European Green Deal…

Climate

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RJ Smith (1937-2024)

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/11/2024

Freedom has lost a true champion with the passing of longtime CEI analyst RJ Smith. RJ’s tireless advocacy for private property rights will be especially…

Human Achievement Hour

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The Inflation Reduction Act’s EPA slush fund gets going: Now it needs to be stopped

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 04/11/2024

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced eight nonprofit organizations will be able to hand out $20 billion of taxpayer dollars to recipients…

Energy and Environment

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‘Fast Track’ series looks at states’ permit progress: First up, Pennsylvania

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 04/10/2024

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce the release of a new policy paper series called “Fast Track.” The series, overseen by CEI senior…

Business and Government

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R.J. Smith – In Memoriam

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/10/2024

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has lost a treasured friend and mentor, Robert J. Smith. All my thoughts about R.J. run to superlatives. He was a…

Human Achievement Hour

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This week in ridiculous regulations: energy labeling and wheel weights

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/08/2024

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to visit President Biden this week. The moon may get assigned a time zone. Agencies issued new regulations…

Deregulation

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The Biden administration once again puts its climate agenda above home affordability

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/05/2024

The Biden administration talks a good game about making housing more affordable, but in truth it is actively boosting costs through expensive climate change…

Energy and Environment

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Free the Economy podcast: Extremely online with Brad Polumbo

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 04/04/2024

In this week’s episode we cover how honeybees came back from colony collapse disorder, why you shouldn’t believe the government’s nutrition advice,…

Business and Government

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OSHA tries to walk union officials into workplaces

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/04/2024

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) issued a new rule Friday that will result in union organizers accompanying agency representatives during worksite inspections.

Private Unions

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New lunar time zones reinforce importance of keeping regulators earthbound

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/03/2024

Maybe when actually applied to the blackness of space, regulatory dark matter can be a good thing. Joe Biden this week directed NASA to collaborate…

Deregulation

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Hailstorm exposes vulnerabilities in solar infrastructure: A wake-up call from Texas

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 04/02/2024

Recent destruction of solar cells at the Fighting Jays Solar Farm in Texas has sparked concerns amongst locals about potential land contamination and drawn…

Energy

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Shocking: A federal agency’s new rule could harm electrical grid reliability

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 04/02/2024

Last July the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) finalized FERC Order No. 2023, which makes significant changes to the procedures for adding new transmission to…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Another ban from California: Say goodbye to most new gas-powered lawn and garden equipment

  • By: Jacob Tomasulo, Patricia Patnode
  • 04/02/2024

California is not just banning gas-powered vehicles and trying to ban diesel locomotives. The state is also banning the sale of new gas-powered…

Energy

Blog

More credit card competition? Not really

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 04/02/2024

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is worried about a lack of competition in payment card networks, so he’s planning to force the issue. His Credit…

Business and Government

Blog

This model AI legislation would regulate government instead of the private sector

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/01/2024

Brand new guidance from the Office of Management and Budget governing uses of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout the federal government was issued last week.

Tech and Telecom

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This week in ridiculous regulations: Trademark fees and threatened sloths

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 04/01/2024

A cargo ship struck and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman died at age 90.

Climate

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California laggin’: As Golden State minimum wage rises, so does unemployment

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/29/2024

California has been a pioneer in raising the minimum wage for decades, consistently putting its state-wide minimum well above the federal rate. Over that same…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Questions about EPA’s electric vehicle rule—some answered, some not

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/28/2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week posted the pre-Federal Register version of its de facto electric vehicle (EV) sales mandate rule. The rule…

Energy and Environment

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Free the Economy podcast: Gig work with Liya Palagashvili

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/28/2024

In this week’s episode we cover how to rebuild after the Baltimore bridge collapse, legal challenges to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Climate change doesn’t cause inflation.

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/28/2024

A new study in Nature from two scientists and two European Central Bank officials argues that climate change could cause inflation. A Daily Caller…

Climate

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Two cheers for the gas stove protections in FY 2024 spending bill

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/26/2024

There is a provision in the recently-passed appropriations bill prohibiting any federal funds from being used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to…

Energy and Environment

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This week in ridiculous regulations: NASA penalties and emergency alerts

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/25/2024

The 2024 Federal Register topped 20,000 pages. The Justice Department sued Apple for having an iPhone monopoly. Russia held an election-themed event where Vladimir Putin…

Tech and Telecom

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Lina Khan’s tenure as FTC Chair highlights need for reform of the agency

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 03/22/2024

Three years ago, today, President Biden nominated Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Senate confirmed Khan as a commissioner later in…

Eye on FTC

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Free the Economy podcast: Paying for organs with Pete Jaworski

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/21/2024

In this week’s episode we cover the future of AI and employment, why we shouldn’t trust Chinese economic statistics, and how the…

Healthcare

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