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SEC restores corporate control over ESG proposals

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 03/21/2025

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has wasted no time in reforming controversial regulations under the Trump administration. Beyond targeting formal rules, GOP commissioners have…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Tariffs, tax cuts, and trustees with Dominic Pino

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/20/2025

In this week’s episode we cover retirement investing, pivoting to India for global trade, new housing on federal land, and priorities…

Trade and International

Blog

Trump SEC makes tremendous progress against crypto-stifling regulation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/19/2025

Gary Gensler’s SEC worked at a frenetic pace to shut down innovation in the crypto sector. Without rhyme or reason, the Biden-Gensler SEC moved fast…

Banking and Finance

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Let the deconstruction commence

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/18/2025

Congress’s actionable hierarchy for administrative state burial & constitutional resurrection Alongside restoring fiscal sanity, Congress must establish a hierarchy of actions to make Donald Trump’s…

Deregulation

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Trump cancels Biden’s heat pump crisis

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/18/2025

It isn’t easy figuring out the single most ridiculous Biden administration climate policy, but its declaration that electric heat pumps are critical to the…

Energy

Blog

Otherwise Objectionable Podcast episode 1: ‘The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/18/2025

Otherwise Objectionable is the brand-new limited series podcast that tells the true story of how a previously-obscure defamation law, Section 230 of the 1996…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Blog

14 priorities in slashing spending and regulation before ‘America 250’—#7 will shock you!

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/17/2025

This past week, the House and Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) that preserves Biden-era spending levels while largely turning a blind eye to…

Regulatory Reform

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Let’s cut the cord on federal funding for NPR and PBS

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 03/17/2025

They are products of a media landscape that no longer exists. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was born through the Public Broadcasting Act…

Innovation

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Will BlackRock revive Social Security reform?

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/14/2025

Earlier this week mega asset manager BlackRock hosted a high-profile public event in Washington, D.C. focused on retirement savings, with several A-list panelists from…

Banking and Finance

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Gov. Youngkin should veto restrictive credit bill

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 03/14/2025

While many watchful eyes focus on the economic impacts of actions of federal lawmakers inside the Beltway, pending legislation in a statehouse 100 miles south…

Fintech

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Free the Economy podcast: Broadcasting liberty with Jeff Westling

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/13/2025

In this week’s episode we discuss Trump tariffs (via AEI’s Jim Pethokoukis and Apricitas Economics’s Joey Politano), the death…

Innovation

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Shutdowns are fake, but government growth is very real

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/12/2025

With a government funding deadline looming on March 14, the House passed a continuing resolution (CR) to freeze non-defense spending at Fiscal Year 2024…

Deregulation

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Plans to build gas plants respond to increased power demand

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 03/11/2025

Energy companies respond to surging AI demand with behind-the-meter solutions. Rising power demand, led by the buildout of data centers for Artificial Intelligence (AI), is leading…

Energy

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Chavez-DeRemer exemplifies Trump’s complicated relationship with unions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/11/2025

The Senate confirmed former Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer in a 67-32 vote Monday as President Trump’s new labor secretary. CEI and others…

Labor and Employment

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Russia tariffs won’t bring peace

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/11/2025

President Trump seems to think that tariffs can accomplish almost anything. My colleague Iain Murray recently pointed out that Trump believes tariffs can raise…

Trade and International

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This week in ridiculous regulations: NEPA and refrigerators

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/10/2025

President Trump delayed some tariffs against Canada and Mexico, but let others take effect. He also enacted a sixth round of tariffs against China and…

Deregulation

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Free the Economy podcast: Striving for shareholder value with Matt Cole

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/07/2025

In this week’s episode we discuss executive branch powers at the Supreme Court, BP’s pivot back to being an oil and gas…

Deregulation

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Legislation would restore the full power of the Seventh Amendment

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 03/07/2025

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) has introduced a bill offering the first legislative step toward administrative law court (ALC) reform. Known as the Seventh…

Law and Litigation

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Trump EO on crypto reserves rightly eschews government purchases

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/07/2025

After much anticipation, President Donald Trump’s newly issued executive order (EO) on a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” and “digital asset stockpile” does not call for…

Banking and Finance

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The CFPB drops its misguided case against Zelle

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/06/2025

Seemingly as part of the general order to stop work by acting director Russ Vought, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has dropped…

Banking and Finance

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You want hiring freezes with that? The effects of California’s minimum wage increase

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/05/2025

California officially raised its minimum wage to $20 an hour last April in an attempt to help the state’s working poor. What those folks…

Labor and Employment

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DOGE’s first cut at bureaucracy: A target inventory

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/04/2025

Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14219, “Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Regulatory Initiative,” has set the stage for a major…

Deregulation

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CEI’s The Surge: CRA resolutions, Climate Disclosure Rule, and more

  • 03/04/2025

If you are interested in analysis and perspective on current energy and environmental issues, then we encourage you to subscribe to this new publication and…

Energy and Environment

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Pressure brought to bear to delist ‘threatened’ grizzlies

  • By: Jacob Tomasulo
  • 03/03/2025

On February 5th, Reps. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Russ Fulcher (R-ID), Ryan Zinke (R-MT), and Troy Downing (R-MT) sent a letter to President…

Lands and Wildlife

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White House requires federal agencies to disclose time spent working for unions instead of taxpayers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/03/2025

The Trump administration has restored reporting and transparency requirements for so-called “official time,” the practice where government workers are allowed to act exclusively on behalf…

Government Unions

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Blog

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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