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Don’t Ban Technology of Tomorrow to Save Jobs of Yesterday

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/08/2023

Recently in Episode 10 of the Free the Economy podcast we returned to one of our favorite topics, economic opportunity and jobs in…

Labor and Employment

Blog

House Financial Services Committee Leans on SEC’s Gensler for More Transparency

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/08/2023

House Financial Services Committee Leans on SEC’s Gensler for More Transparency Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee and some allies in the Senate are…

Financial Regulation

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Trust, but Verify via Congressional Oversight

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/08/2023

Is the Federal Trade Commission’s request that Twitter hand over the names of “all journalists and other members of the media to whom” the social…

Antitrust

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/06/2023

CEI published a new paper on right-to-repair legislation and held a hill briefing about regulatory reform and other topics. Meanwhile, agencies issued new…

Regulatory Reform

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Congress Hands Biden His First Legislative Defeat by Overturning DOL ESG Rule Affecting Retirees

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 03/03/2023

Republicans in Congress have just teed up the first major legislative rebuke to the Biden Administration’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies. On Tuesday,…

Banking and Finance

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Free the Economy Episode 10: Legalize Jobs with Shoshana Weissmann

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/03/2023

Welcome back to the Free the Economy podcast. In this week’s episode we talk about Mercatus Center’s Michael Farren’s case for the…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

How Ofcom can develop more flexible net neutrality rules for specialised services

  • By: Ryan Nabil
  • 03/02/2023

The United Kingdom needs more flexible net neutrality rules as the Rishi Sunak government seeks to bolster the country’s leadership in emerging technologies. Creating more…

Tech and Telecom

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DOL Nominee Julie Su An Aggressive Enforcer, Inept Manager

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/02/2023

President Biden’s announcement Tuesday that he would nominate Department of Labor Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su to replace departing Labor Secretary Mary Walsh is…

Labor and Employment

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Regulatory Reform Bills in the 118th Congress: The Article I Regulatory Budget Act

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/02/2023

The federal government is supposed to put out an annual budget to track its spending. Why doesn’t it do the same thing for regulation? The…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Congress must ensure more efficient and transparent broadband funding

  • By: Ryan Nabil
  • 03/01/2023

Improved Internet connectivity can help reduce socioeconomic inequality at home and improve America’s global economic competitiveness abroad. Thanks to growing private investment, competition, and innovation,…

Tech and Telecom

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New CEI Paper Outlines Problems with “Right to Repair” Legislation

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 03/01/2023

At least 20 states have filed or refiled “right to repair” legislation since the start of the new year. Two states passed right to…

Deregulation

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/27/2023

Last Friday marked the one-year anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. CEI released a new paper on the FTC’s upcoming merger guideline…

Deregulation

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Fed Economist: Study Shows Danger of Government-Mandated Financial Misinformation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/27/2023

Study from Fed Economist Shows Danger of Government-Mandated Financial Misinformation The “Twitter Files” have made some shocking revelations about government entities…

Business and Government

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Covid Lockdowns Did Not Improve Outcomes: Lessons from Florida and California

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/27/2023

My Competitive Enterprise Institute colleague Dr. Joel Zinberg is the co-author of a new report, published by the Paragon Health Institute titled “Freedom Wins:…

Health and Safety

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Study from Fed Economist Shows Danger of Government-Mandated Financial Misinformation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/24/2023

The “Twitter Files” have made some shocking revelations about government entities muscling social media companies to deplatform people in the name of preventing so-called…

Banking and Finance

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We Won’t Need More Lithium for EVs if We Just Ban Cars (and the Suburbs) Instead

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/24/2023

Seaver Wang of the Breakthrough Institute published a fascinating analysis recently on the need for more mining and resource development in order to fuel…

Capitalism

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Collusion Is Harmful and Illegal—Except When a Federal Agency Does It?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/24/2023

The Wall Street Journal reports today, thanks to FOIA requests by the Chamber of Commerce, that it appears the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) conspired…

Antitrust

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College-Educated Women Advance in Workforce

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/24/2023

The Pew Research Center recently published some interesting data on women in the workforce. For the first time ever, women with college degrees have…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

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Bad Trade Policy Still Bottling up Baby Formula

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/24/2023

Scott Lincicome and Gabriella Beaumont-Smith brought us an update last week on the infant formula pipeline problems we’ve been seeing for the last…

Trade and International

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Free the Economy Episode 9: Unconstitutional Taxation with Dan Greenberg

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/23/2023

Welcome back to the Free the Economy podcast. In this week’s episode we start by perusing National Review’s series on Adam Smith’s 300th…

Capitalism

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CFPB Court Defeat a Welcome Reminder of who Makes the Rules

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 02/23/2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suffered a stinging reverse in court last week when its action against Chicago-area mortgage company Townstone Financial was dismissed.

Banking and Finance

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Happy 300th Birthday, Adam Smith

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/23/2023

Our friends at National Review have created a fascinating publication series to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith, legendary…

Capitalism

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/23/2023

The 2023 Federal Register topped 10,000 pages on February 16. Inflation remained high, but is still below its peak. FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson…

Deregulation

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The Judiciary Is Skeptical of FTC Power Grabs in Meta/Within Case

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/23/2023

The FTC tried to stop a merger between Facebook’s parent company Meta and the virtual reality app developer Within Unlimited. A court recently ruled against…

Eye on FTC

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New CEI Paper on New Merger Guidelines

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/23/2023

Any day now, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will release new merger guidelines. FTC Chair Lina Khan has not yet released a draft of the…

Eye on FTC

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Regulatory Reform Bills in the 118th Congress: The Less Is More Resolution

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/23/2023

Often, spending is regulation in disguise. The 185,000-page Code of Federal Regulations is not the only way Washington regulates the economy. The federal government…

Deregulation

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Hearing Shows Bipartisan Momentum for Focused Financial Deregulation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/17/2023

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of testifying at the first hearing of the newly constituted Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy subcommittee…

Banking and Finance

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Shrinkflation, Slack-filling, and the Real Effects of Inflation

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/17/2023

The Washington Post’s Laura Reiley recently raised an alarm, with a St. Valentine’s Day theme, on a consumer merchandising trend called “slack-filling.” She noted…

Capitalism

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Regulatory Reform Bills in the 118th Congress: The GOOD Act

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/17/2023

Regulatory dark matter is a serious problem. Agencies are supposed to run new regulations through a formal process which  includes publishing a draft version of…

Deregulation

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Free the Economy Episode 8: Crypto and ESG with Jennifer Schulp

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/16/2023

Welcome back to the Free the Economy podcast. In this week’s episode we talk about the cultural impact of Super Bowl ads,…

Capitalism

Blog

Less is More – EPA’s Methane Rule and the Social Cost Paradox

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/16/2023

CEI this week submitted comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed rule to establish new and more stringent methane emission standards for…

Energy

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Why the ETF is Uniquely American and Ideally Capitalist 

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 02/16/2023

A 30-year-old rule by the Securities and Exchange Commission succeeded in lowering barriers to entry for cheaper and more flexible investment options. In January, the…

Capitalism

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Mixed Inflation News for January

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/14/2023

Today’s inflation news is mixed. We’re still almost certainly past the worst of the COVID inflation, but January’s numbers took a turn for the…

Deregulation

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It’s Not Just Stoves – Biden Administration Regulators Going After Many Other Appliances

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/14/2023

Do you think that Joe Biden’s regulators are sticking to promises not to target gas stoves? Think again, and it is not just stoves but…

Energy and Environment

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/13/2023

An earthquake killed at least 20,000 people in Turkey. President Biden delivered the State of the Union speech. Meanwhile, agencies issued new regulations ranging from…

Deregulation

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Are Americans Investing for Retirement or Politics?

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/10/2023

Being able to save enough during our working lives to fund a comfortable retirement is a top concern for most American households, especially since…

Financial Regulation

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Fauci Failure to Acknowledge Limited Vaccine Protection Undermines Faith in Government Advice

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 02/10/2023

In a recent article Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged that, from the beginning of the pandemic, there was good reason to believe that vaccines against…

Healthcare

Blog

Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 02/09/2023

In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a…

Legal Studies

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Free the Economy Episode 7: Economics for Everybody with Ryan Young

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/09/2023

Welcome back to the Free the Economy podcast. In this week’s episode we talk about Adam Millsap’s proposal to encourage abundance with…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

New Hampshire Civil Forfeiture Would Protect Private Property from Unjust Seizure

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 02/09/2023

Several state legislators in New Hampshire will consider a major change in criminal justice policy later today. The House Committee on Criminal Justice and Public…

Property Rights

Blog

Busting the Myth of Overpopulation

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/09/2023

Recently PragerU released a new video on “The Myth of Overpopulation,” featuring the Cato Institute’s Marian Tupy. Marian (also the editor of Human​Progress​.org)…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court

  • 02/09/2023

In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Regulatory Reform Bills in the 118th Congress: The REINS Act

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/08/2023

Every new session of Congress is a new chance to enact substantive regulatory reform. This post inaugurates an occasional series highlighting reform bills that have…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Walsh Skates out of the Biden Administration

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/07/2023

The news that Marty Walsh will be stepping down as Secretary of Labor seems to reflect the diminished agenda that Joe Biden will have…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Biden Administration Is Late to Right to Repair Party, but that Won’t Stop Them from Taking Credit

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 02/07/2023

President Biden signed an Executive Order on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy” in July 2021. The EO covered a wide-range of policy…

Innovation

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Administration’s Recent Crackdown on Domestic Mining at Odds with Its Electric Vehicle Agenda

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/07/2023

President Biden could hardly be more aggressive in trying to foist electric vehicles (EVs) on the American public, regardless of whether they really meet our…

Energy and Environment

Blog

State of the Union: Heavy-Handed Tech Regulation Fails to Appeal to Many Democratic Voters

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/06/2023

President Biden should take advantage of breaking spy balloon news to talk about that—or anything else—instead of re-upping calls for regulation aimed at big tech…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

State of the Union and Inflation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/06/2023

Presidents, like quarterbacks, get too much blame when things go badly, and too much when things go well. Look for President Biden to take advantage…

Monetary Policy

Blog

Biden’s State of the Union in Five Words: More Spending, Regulation, and Dependency

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/06/2023

Ladies and gentlemen, we can sum up President Joe Biden’s the State of the Union (SOTU) in five words: More spending, regulation, and dependency. That…

Deregulation

Blog

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/06/2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had a setback in one of its cases against Meta. The Fed raised interest rates. Meanwhile, agencies…

Deregulation

Blog

NTIA Report Ignores Relevant Competition in Its Study of App Ecosystem

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 02/03/2023

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released its report on “Competition in the Mobile Application Ecosystem” this past Wednesday. I submitted comments…

Innovation

Blog

Right Sizing the Federal Trade Commission Is Step One

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/03/2023

As part of regulatory streamlining and administrative state reform efforts, members of the 118th Congress have already reintroduced several prominent pieces of legislation. These include…

Deregulation

Blog

America Needs an Abundance Agenda

  • By: Joshua Bandoch
  • 02/03/2023

An abundance agenda—public policies that lead to diversity in consumer goods and financial security for families—should be an economic and moral imperative. That’s what Richard…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

Free the Economy Episode 6: The Cultural Impact of YouTube with Javier Hernandez

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/02/2023

Welcome back to the Free the Economy podcast. In this week’s episode we talk about the myth of overpopulation, the problem with…

Capitalism

Blog

Federal Attacks on Gas Stoves Continue

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/02/2023

Think Biden administration regulators at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have really backed away from their threat to target natural gas stoves? No, they…

Energy and Environment

Blog

FTC Should Not Trade Consumer Welfare for an Antitrust Crystal Ball

  • By: Jessica Melugin, Ryan Young
  • 02/01/2023

A Federal District Court in California today denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request for a preliminary injunction to stop Meta’s purchase of virtual…

Blog

It Isn’t Just Gas Stoves That Biden Regulators Dislike – EPA Adding Costly Red Tape To Air Conditioners

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/30/2023

In response to a strong consumer backlash, Biden administration regulators now insist they are not considering a ban on natural gas stoves, at least…

Energy and Environment

Blog

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/30/2023

The Department of Justice filed another antitrust lawsuit against Google. GDP numbers for the final quarter of 2022 looked healthy.  Meanwhile, agencies issued new regulations…

Deregulation

Blog

Berlau Crypto Letter and Comments in Wall Street Journal and Washington Examiner

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/27/2023

This week, I have had the honor of being quoted in a great article on cryptocurrency trends and regulation in the Washington Examiner and having…

Deregulation

Blog

Avoiding Passive Income Scams

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/27/2023

Recently, on episode three of the Free the Economy podcast (about 5:30 in), we discussed the promise and perils of “passive income” investments. On…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

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Free the Economy Episode 5: Corporate Purpose and ESG with Russ Greene

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/27/2023

Welcome back to the Free the Economy podcast. In this week’s episode we talk about the economic and cultural impact of YouTube,…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

Inventories of Federal Agency Major Rules and Regulations Poised to Rise

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/25/2023

Federal government reports and databases on regulations serve different purposes: The Federal Register details anddepicts the aggregate number of proposed and final rules—both those that…

Deregulation

Blog

Agency Notices in the Federal Register Merit Close Monitoring by Congress

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/24/2023

Along with presidential proclamations like executive orders and memoranda (examined recently here) are those of departments and agencies, which are numerous and sweeping. Without…

Deregulation

Blog

Adam Smith, Greek Tragedy, and Public Policy

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/23/2023

In high school civics classes, Adam Smith is a cartoon character. Like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, he is portrayed as selfish, cold, and calculating.

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

An Update on Biden Administration Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/23/2023

Executive orders, presidential memoranda, “Fact Sheets,” and other executive proclamations make up a substantial component of what passes for lawmaking in the United States today.

Deregulation

Blog

Philip Howard’s Not Accountable Focuses on Reform of Public Sector Unions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/23/2023

Of the 14.3 million people that the Department of Labor says are currently union members, almost half, 7.1 million, work in public sector jobs.

Government Unions

Blog

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/23/2023

The U.S. government hit its debt ceiling, setting up some congressional drama. Microsoft and Google joined the parade of antitrust targets announcing layoffs despite…

Deregulation

Blog

Free the Economy Episode 4: Entrepreneurship and Equality with Alfredo Ortiz

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/20/2023

Thanks to everyone for listening to and sharing the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s new podcast, Free the Economy. If you like the show, please leave…

Capitalism

Blog

Unionization Is Down to 10.1 Percent of the Workforce, Lowest Level on Record

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/19/2023

The Department of Labor annual survey of union density, released today, shows that unions have fallen to just 10.1 percent of the overall workforce,…

Labor and Employment

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Congress Should Require the Administration to Adopt a Regulatory Budget in Exchange for Raising the Debt Ceiling

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 01/19/2023

Every once in a while, the escalating drama of Washington policy debate has a genuine problem behind it. The suddenly heated focus on the need to…

Regulatory Reform

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How the UK Can Reform Net Neutrality Regulations and Promote Innovation

  • By: Ryan Nabil
  • 01/17/2023

As post-Brexit United Kingdom recalibrates its approach to net neutrality, the country needs to balance competing priorities of Internet access, efficient broadband networks, consumer…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

A Rise in Unfunded Mandates on State and Local Governments Could Spur Calls for Regulatory Reform in the 118th Congress

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/17/2023

The Biden administration’s surge in federal regulations affecting small business will likely to induce some calls for regulatory reform during the 118th Congress. Now…

Deregulation

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The Debt Ceiling and the Trillion-Dollar Coin

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/17/2023

Another debt ceiling battle is brewing, and pundits are debating what to do about it. Over at National Review’ Capital Matters, I take a look…

Monetary Policy

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/17/2023

Inflation fell to a 6.5 percent annual pace. Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro staged their own version of January 6. An…

Deregulation

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Free the Economy Episode 3: Washington’s 10,000 Commandments

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/13/2023

Thanks to everyone for listening to the first two episodes of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s new podcast, Free the Economy. We’ve got more great…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

332 Costliest Rules in the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/11/2023

Every year, federal agencies issue thousands of rules, regulations, and guidance documents, compared to a relative handful of laws passed by Congress.

Deregulation

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Federal Reserve Declines to Become Climate Regulator

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/11/2023

Most agencies can either do one thing well or many things poorly. For example, the Federal Reserve would be perfectly capable of keeping inflation low…

Deregulation

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The Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations Extends “Whole-of-Government” Activism

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/10/2023

The genius of the Progressives in the late 19th century was to preempt or push large sectors of the emerging…

Deregulation

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/09/2023

The new Congress began with a lot of drama over selecting a speaker. The Federal Trade Commission announced its intention to ban non-compete clauses.

Deregulation

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Free the Economy Episode 2: Defending the American Dream

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/06/2023

Thanks to everyone who listened to the inaugural episode of the new Competitive Enterprise Institute podcast Free the Economy in December. We covered stagnating wages,…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations – Year-End 2022

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/03/2023

Happy new year, everyone. Year-end totals for 2022’s new regulations are in. The 2022 Federal Register weighs in at 80,756 pages. It includes 3,168 final…

Deregulation

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Customers, Not Regulators, Should Hold Southwest Accountable

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/29/2022

Southwest Airlines’ scheduling meltdown over the holiday weekend has prompted Capitol Hill lawmakers to propose hearings and federal regulators like Transportation Secretary Pete…

Aviation

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Climate Fact Check 2022 Report Debunks Mainstream Media’s Tall Tales

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 12/28/2022

Climate Fact Check 2022, a report issued this week by CEI and several other nonprofit groups, debunks claims made in the mainstream media this…

Energy and Environment

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Where Is the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/27/2022

Federal budgets are chronically late and always unbalanced, but we do get them eventually. Increasingly, we get them good and hard, as we did…

Deregulation

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/27/2022

A massive snowstorm with heavy winds hit most of the U.S. just in time for Christmas. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Washington and addressed…

Deregulation

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Free the Economy Episode 1: Deregulating Abundance

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/23/2022

Free the Economy is a new podcast from the Competitive Enterprise Institute focused on how we all can become happier, healthier, and wealthier in a…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

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Omnibus Bill Throws More Money at CDC, Does Not Reform It

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 12/23/2022

Congress has passed the $1.7 trillion fiscal 2023 omnibus appropriations bill. The 4,155-page legislation, which covers everything from agriculture to veterans, includes a section…

Healthcare

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Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Faces Needless Challenges

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 12/23/2022

Emboldened antitrust bureaucrats on both sides of the Atlantic are flexing their muscles with challenges to Microsoft’s planned acquisition of the game developer Activision, maker…

Eye on FTC

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The Deregulatory Pony for Small Biz Buried in the Omnibus Pile

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/23/2022

There’s not much good to say about an “omnibus” bill crammed in at the end-of-year lame duck session of Congress that contains a grab bag…

Banking and Finance

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CNN Cheers Proposed New Restrictions on Light Bulbs

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 12/20/2022

CNN has some great news for American consumers—your choices in light bulbs are being reduced! The Department of Energy (DOE) will soon propose a new…

Energy and Environment

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Biden Mocks Republicans as “Socialists;” Don’t Prove Him Right on the 2023 Omnibus

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/20/2022

Several times in recent months, President Joe Biden mocked Republicans who had called his legislative agenda “socialist,” but afterward worked to channel some of the…

Deregulation

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/19/2022

CEI released its latest Agenda for Congress. Inflation slowed down in November, though there is still a ways to go before it’s…

Deregulation

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What Republicans Can Do about the Federal Budget Now

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/16/2022

When the new 2023 fiscal year began October 1, Washington had been running a series of trillion-dollar deficits. This year’s Christmastime budget showdown, and the adventures…

Deregulation

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Agenda for Congress: Inflation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/15/2022

CEI’s Agenda for Congress is out now. This post summarizes its recommendations for inflation. Since inflation is mostly a monetary phenomenon, it is…

Monetary Policy

Blog

Bailout Suggests It’s Time to Rethink Multiemployer Pensions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/14/2022

President Biden announced last Thursday that the government would give $36 billion to bail out the multiemployer Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. It is…

Labor and Employment

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DOE’s Press Release on Federal Building Energy Standards Is Inaccurate, Misleading, and Unserious

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/14/2022

The Department of Energy (DOE) last week released the pre-publication version of a proposed rule to “establish energy performance standards for the construction of…

Energy and Environment

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Agencies Are Limited in Which Congressional Power They Can Exercise

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 12/13/2022

Can unelected federal bureaucrats force people to hire police to ensure that the law is complied with—even if Congress never said anything about hiring cops…

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The Federal Trade Commission Is in Dire Need of an Intervention

  • By: Alex Reinauer, Jessica Melugin
  • 12/13/2022

In recent years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has become increasingly aggressive in its antitrust actions and policies. This expansion will be harmful to American…

Antitrust

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New Unfunded Federal Mandates on State and Local Governments Could Spark Regulatory Reform

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/13/2022

Substantial upticks in final and proposed regulation affecting small business beyond that seen already in the Biden administration appear likelier than not. A…

Deregulation

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FTX Hearings Should Probe Fraud Charges and the SEC’s Misplaced Priorities

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/13/2022

In the wake of the arrest of and charges of fraud against Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder and former CEO of the FTX…

Financial Regulation

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