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Thank you, Fred Smith

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/24/2024

When I was fresh out of college, I attended a large classical liberal conference. After one day’s sessions wrapped up, I had dinner at a…

In Memoriam

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At minimum, keep the de minimis import exemption

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/22/2024

The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission has just issued its recommendations for China policy. One of them is to eliminate the de minimis…

Trade and International

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Concerning transmission provisions in the Energy Permitting Reform Act

  • By: James Broughel
  • 11/22/2024

As Congress enters its lame duck period, the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, introduced by Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY),…

Energy and Environment

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Free the Economy podcast: Political drinking with Jarrett Dieterle

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 11/21/2024

In this week’s episode we cover student loans, revenue from tariffs, democracy in Hong Kong, and the impact of podcasts…

Deregulation

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Congresswoman Chavez-DeRemer is not qualified to be Labor Secretary 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/21/2024

President-elect Donald Trump is considering Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) for the position of…

Labor and Employment

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From cuts to costs: Why federal paperwork keeps piling up

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/20/2024

The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) release of the 2023 Information Collection Budget (ICB) paints a troubling picture of not just of growing federal…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Biden overtime rule overruled 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/19/2024

A Texas court last week threw out the Biden’s administration’s attempt to rewrite the rules for overtime. The court said that the Department of Labor…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Swamp things: Why DOGE moving Beltway agencies to states isn’t deregulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/19/2024

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), expected to be established by president-elect Trump and led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, aims to slash regulations,…

Deregulation

Blog

NLRB moves to silence employers during union drives 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/18/2024

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the independent federal agency that oversees union activity, ruled Wednesday in a case involving Amazon…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Tariffs are lousy revenue generators

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/18/2024

President-elect Donald Trump has proposed cutting income taxes and raising tariffs to replace some of the revenue. Economists of all political stripes have been…

Trade and International

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Mergers and mail

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/18/2024

The 2024 Federal Register topped 90,000 pages and is now the second-longest ever, dating back to 1936, with more than a month still to go.

Deregulation

Blog

The ‘Carbon’ Futures Trading Commission vows to decarbonize futures trading

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 11/15/2024

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently approved one of its most controversial guidance document to date. Under this new policy, the CFTC will…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Republicans should wait for real permitting reform in the new Congress

  • By: James Broughel
  • 11/14/2024

The 2024 election has dramatically shifted the political landscape, with Republicans securing control of both chambers of Congress and the White House. As Washington prepares…

Energy and Environment

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Free the Economy podcast: Debt and taxes with Jack Salmon

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 11/14/2024

In this week’s episode we cover the death of ESG investing, next moves on regulatory reform, Wall Street enthusiasm for a…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

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A blueprint for digital censorship in the US?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 11/14/2024

Internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), as revealed by digital censorship journalist Matt Taibbi, showed that the group’s primary…

Free Speech

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Consumers benefit from access to Buy Now, Pay Later options

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 11/13/2024

In a rapidly evolving retail landscape, with more and more commerce moving online, there has been a rise of financial technology (or fintech) tools. These…

Fintech

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New CEI video: The case for big and small business in America

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/13/2024

Some questions don’t have a correct answer. For example: What is the right size for a business? A new CEI video and website…

Antitrust

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Congressional lessons learned: Prioritize private risk capital investment

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 11/13/2024

There is always a temptation for Congress to act during a lame duck session to show it is hard at work doing good for the…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

No more taxpayer dollars for environmental treaties until UN ends China’s developing country status

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/11/2024

Most environmental treaties are a bad deal for the American people, and some are made worse by the fact that the United Nations (UN) classifies…

Energy and Environment

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Biden’s regulatory report is in, but key costs remain in the shadows

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/11/2024

The election is over and among much else, federal regulations are emerging front and center for the incoming administration. While the federal debt sits…

Deregulation

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Biden’s 2024 Federal Register page count already second highest ever

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/11/2024

We’ve not closed the Book of Regulation for 2024, Biden’s final calendar year in office, but we can mark a milestone nonetheless. The Federal Register…

Deregulation

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This week in ridiculous regulations: Cable pricing and outer space arms trafficking

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/11/2024

Donald Trump won a second term. The change in power might mean a second regulatory midnight rush between now and the inauguration. An initial rush…

Deregulation

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Free the Economy podcast: Nuclear renaissance with Nick Loris

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 11/07/2024

In this week’s episode we cover a new vision for the Securities and Exchange Commission, affordable housing in Hong Kong, and how…

Deregulation

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Voters okay higher minimum wages, balk at more radical ideas

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/06/2024

The ironic thing about Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ rhetoric is that it overlaps to a degree with old-school Democratic populism. This can be…

Business and Government

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New nuclear deals are good for technology and the power grid

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 11/04/2024

Headlines over the last month have cropped up about technology companies signing various deals with companies in the nuclear power space. First Constellation Energy and…

Energy

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This week in ridiculous regulations: Human subjects and food paper

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 11/04/2024

Republicans called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” as a voter outreach tactic. Democrats got upset that a newspaper that generally supports Democrats didn’t endorse…

Deregulation

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Free the Economy podcast: Understanding the national debt with Thomas Savidge

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 11/01/2024

In this week’s episode we cover whether Americans feel better off than they were four years ago, why we have more billion-dollar…

Business and Government

Blog

A 2024 CEI HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: A new inventory unmasking federal agency guidance documents

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/31/2024

In my new Halloween-themed article at Forbes, I explore the eerie expanse of federal agency guidance documents. We have to try to have a…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

The next president may face a ‘January Surprise’: Port strikes 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/31/2024

The next president might face a test right as they are being inaugurated: a renewal of the International Longshoremen Association’s (ILA) strike against east coast…

Labor and Employment

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The origins and lessons of the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the 1980s

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/31/2024

Moral panics are just one of those things that free societies seem to go through on a regular basis. The “satanic panic” was the big…

Deregulation

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The FCC’s curious curiosity about broadband data caps

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 10/29/2024

With less than three months remaining in the current administration, the FCC has released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on broadband data caps. Data…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

New poll shows Pennsylvanians are concerned about energy affordability

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 10/29/2024

A recent Commonwealth Foundation poll shows Pennsylvania residents are concerned about high energy costs and reliability.  The poll, conducted in September, used a sample of 800…

Energy and Environment

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Nursing pillows and mobile driver’s licenses

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/28/2024

One more week until election season is finally, mercifully, over. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from space exports to recreational fires.  On to the data:…

Financial Regulation

Blog

In honor of Free Speech Week, end all regulatory gag orders

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 10/23/2024

Free Speech Week is an annual, nonpartisan celebration of the indispensable right to speak one’s mind. While every level of government is expected…

Free Speech

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The compliance crisis: Unveiling the regulatory loopholes agencies love

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/22/2024

While federal regulatory reform is critical, it’s equally important that existing oversight laws be followed. Unfortunately, many of these laws are routinely disregarded, with little…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Principles for the new administration: Leave old rules with old technologies

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 10/21/2024

There will be a new administration in January regardless which party wins the election, making this a good moment to recall President Reagan’s advice…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

Kamala’s Opportunity Agenda for Black Men: Regulatory frameworks masquerading as economic help

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/21/2024

Recent developments signal a troubling trend for America’s small businesses, one that could alter the nation’s entrepreneurial landscape in a big and detrimental way. The…

Deregulation

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Nuclear fuel and eagles’ nests

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/21/2024

It was a four-day week due to Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The terrorist group Hamas’s leader was killed by the Israeli military. The economics…

Deregulation

Blog

House advances anti-ESG legislation on investments, pensions

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 10/18/2024

The US House of Representatives recently passed a major ESG reform package that is on its way to the Senate. In a vote of…

Financial Regulation

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Freedom to farm with Bill Wirtz

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 10/17/2024

In this week’s episode we cover a new ranking of state governors, reforms to emergency powers, new research on working from…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

AJR’s economics Nobel is a partial victory for institutions

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/16/2024

This year’s economics Nobel Prize winners are Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. They are frequent collaborators, often collectively called AJR. Much of their…

Capitalism

Blog

Next time, let’s try emergency powers that shrink government

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/15/2024

As the nation deals with the aftermath of successive natural disasters, the need for a renewed debate on federal emergency powers is increasingly clear. While…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Searching for a remedy that makes sense

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 10/15/2024

The Department of Justice recently sent its proposed remedies to the federal judge who found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing web search. Specifically,…

Antitrust

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Removing barriers to abundance with Chris Koopman

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 10/10/2024

In this week’s episode we cover our record-high budget deficit, green trade wars, and what US adults are watching on TikTok.

Deregulation

Blog

CEI’s The Surge: Nuclear Supreme Court case, the ADVANCE Act, and more

  • By: Daren Bakst, Patricia Patnode
  • 10/09/2024

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 special…

Energy

Blog

Nuclear sites ripe for development

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 10/09/2024

A new study commissioned by the Department of Energy shows the potential for siting new nuclear reactors at existing and recently retired nuclear power plant sites across…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Germany is smug about its energy errors

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 10/09/2024

A tweet last week from the German Foreign Office doubled down on the country’s failing approach to energy.  Germany decided to shut down its 17 nuclear…

Energy and Environment

Blog

#NeverNeeded regulations hindering hurricane recovery

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/08/2024

It may be time to revive the #NeverNeeded campaign to assist the Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton recovery efforts. The idea behind #NeverNeeded…

Deregulation

Blog

UK closes last coal plant

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 10/08/2024

For the first time in 142 years, Britain has no coal power plants. But what are they doing instead? Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Britain’s lone…

Energy and Environment

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Refrigeration products and off-road vehicle debris

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 10/07/2024

Iran fired 180 missiles at Israel. Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina. Longshoremen went on strike. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent. The…

Deregulation

Blog

Longshoremen stood down when they realized wrecking the economy wasn’t popular 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/04/2024

Thursday’s announcement that the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) was ending its strike at east coast and Gulf of Mexico ports after…

Labor and Employment

Blog

White House has several options in dockworkers strike, none of them good 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/03/2024

President Biden likes to call himself “Blue Collar Joe” and declare his support for union workers, but his administration has been…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Reforming red tape in the states with James Broughel

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 10/03/2024

In this week’s episode we cover striking dock workers at US ports, free-market innovation in healthcare, and the changing pattern of federal…

Deregulation

Blog

Adam Smith on health policy

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 10/01/2024

Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute published my OnPoint essay, “The Innovation Imperative: What Adam Smith Can Tell Us About Health.” This was adapted from…

Healthcare

Blog

The real issue in the port strike: Automation

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/01/2024

Most news reports on the east coast dockworker’s strike are focused on the issue of wages, which obscures the real reason for the strike:…

Labor and Employment

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Bent coins and Irish potato taxes

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/30/2024

The leader of the Hezbollah terrorist group died in an Israeli military strike. The 2024 Federal Register is poised to reach 80,000 pages this week.

Deregulation

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: How to sue the SEC with Nick Morgan

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/26/2024

In this week’s episode we cover entrepreneurship in Africa, a lawsuit over “affordable luxury” handbags, and European deforestation rules. Our interview…

Deregulation

Blog

Iowa’s ‘Lean-in’ approach to successful permitting reform

  • By: James Broughel, Patricia Patnode
  • 09/26/2024

The State of Iowa has made significant strides in improving its environmental permitting processes, thanks to innovative reforms spearheaded by the state’s Department of Natural…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Pen and phone power: How presidential documents are changing the rules

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/25/2024

Presidential executive orders and directives have long played a pivotal role in shaping federal policies and regulations. As President Obama famously remarked in 2014, “I’ve…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Teamsters non-endorsement: Outlier or sign of things to come?

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/23/2024

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters’s internal poll on who to endorse in the 2024 presidential election was so lopsidedly in favor of Republican nominee Donald…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Congress decides, not agencies: The significance of the REINvented REINS Act

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/23/2024

It’s been repeated a million times that in our constitutional republic, lawmaking power belongs to Congress. But over the years, this authority has increasingly shifted…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Pedestrians’ heads and avocado maturity

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/23/2024

CEI celebrated its 40th anniversary at its annual Julian Simon Memorial Award Dinner. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates. Agencies issued new regulations…

Deregulation

Blog

Switzerland should reverse its nuclear power plant ban

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 09/20/2024

Despite nuclear energy’s myriad benefits, many countries—and several US states—maintain bans on the construction of new nuclear power plants. This phenomenon is especially puzzling in…

Energy

Blog

Magatte Wade to accept Julian L. Simon Memorial Award and share her story at the CEI dinner

  • By: Jeremy Lott
  • 09/19/2024

According to demographers, about one-quarter of the world’s population is expected to be African at the middle of this century. Many are currently quite poor. …

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

House expected to consider legislation to block EPA’s ‘EV mandate’

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 09/19/2024

This week the House is expected to consider a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) April 2024 rule…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Economic mobility in the 50 states with Gonzalo Schwarz

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/19/2024

In this week’s episode we cover poll results on corporate social responsibility, the plight of California landlords, hard times for cable…

Deregulation

Blog

Teamsters’ non-endorsement exposes internal divisions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/18/2024

The announcement that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will not endorse a presidential candidate this cycle is a sign of the internal struggles within…

Government Unions

Blog

Turning point on interest rates

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/18/2024

The Federal Reserve went for the big cut at its interest rate meeting this week. There was uncertainty on whether the federal funds rate…

Banking and Finance

Blog

DOJ’s flawed case against AI’s incredible rent machine

  • By: John Berlau
  • 09/18/2024

In Tom Smith and The Incredible Bread Machine, the famous political poem about an inventor at first hailed for his machine that slashes the…

Business and Government

Blog

CEI’s The Surge: HUD hiking housing costs, wind and solar subsidies, and more

  • By: Daren Bakst, Patricia Patnode
  • 09/18/2024

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

Energy and Environment

Blog

Political review of agency adjudication and recommendations for reform

  • By: Izam Karukappadath, Stone Washington
  • 09/18/2024

Abstract Formal agency adjudication reserves the final decision-making authority to the political leadership of the agency. Many organizations and watchdogs have taken issue with how…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Why Europe’s ‘Farm to Fork’ policies collapsed

  • By: Bill Wirtz
  • 09/17/2024

The new European Commission, the European Union’s executive body, will soon be tasked with “simplifying” agricultural regulations within the Union. “The Commission is…

Food and Beverage Regulation

Blog

Some thoughts on Constitution Day

  • 09/17/2024

As I drove into work today, it occurred to me: we so often take for granted the extraordinary power that the automobile gives us. Once…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Hey Fed! Don’t worsen devastating Durbin debit card price controls

  • By: John Berlau
  • 09/16/2024

Consumers using their debit and credit cards just can’t catch a break these days from politicians, bureaucrats, and big retailers pushing Big Government ripoffs. In…

Business and Government

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Robocalls and toddler carriers

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/16/2024

Culture warriors falsely accused immigrants of eating people’s pets. Donald Trump discussed the issue in his presidential debate with Kamala Harris. The final…

Deregulation

Blog

Removing taxes on overtime would have only marginal impact

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/13/2024

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s proposal to remove the taxes on overtime would likely have little effect on the workers and the economy. It…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Why we can’t have nice things with Eric Boehm

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/12/2024

In this week’s episode we cover weaponized financial regulation, poverty policy beyond handouts, and Italy’s call to slow down the electric…

Deregulation

Blog

Proposed USDA rule disregards recent Supreme Court rulings

  • By: David S. McFadden
  • 09/12/2024

The first two of the four priorities the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) lists on the homepage of its website are tackling social justice,…

Antitrust

Blog

Just 5 percent of private sector workers voted for their unions 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/11/2024

Imagine if you lived in a country where a vote held decades previous determined which party held control of the government and people had little…

Labor and Employment

Blog

A cry for Yelp or crocodile tears?

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 09/10/2024

Online review platform Yelp filed a private antitrust suit against Google last month, accusing the tech company of monopolizing the “local search services market”…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Regulatory relief, not subsidies, can make housing more affordable

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/10/2024

Housing affordability has become a major issue – and for good reason given skyrocketing home prices and high mortgage rates coming at a time when…

Deregulation

Blog

Scaling deregulation: Can Trump achieve a 10-for-1 rule elimination?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/09/2024

In a speech at the Economic Club of New York, Donald Trump pledged if re-elected to eliminate—not two rules for every one added as he…

Deregulation

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Nuclear casks and radiofrequency toothbrushes

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/09/2024

It was a four-day week due to Labor Day. The unemployment rate declined from 4.3 percent to 4.2 percent. The Biden administration signaled it…

Deregulation

Blog

Government efficiency commission: the good, the bad, and the ugly

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/06/2024

Donald Trump is proposing a new government efficiency commission and he wants Elon Musk to lead it. Like most campaign proposals, it does not…

Business and Government

Blog

Will Big Nuclear make a comeback?

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 09/06/2024

Following Georgia Power Plant Vogtle Unit 4’s completion and coming online earlier this year, there aren’t any outstanding large nuclear reactors under construction in the United…

Energy

Blog

Steeling politics

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/06/2024

Politics ruins everything. Right now, it is ruining America’s steel industry. The Biden administration, with plenty of bipartisan support, has announced it will block…

Trade and International

Blog

Junk science behind federal appliance regs about to get junkier

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/06/2024

The Biden-Harris administration has embarked on a wave of anti-consumer home appliance regulations over the last several years. Each was justified in part by overblown…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

The problem with power subsidies

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 09/05/2024

A new paper from the Energy Alliance highlights one of the biggest causes of rising unreliability on the electricity grid: subsidies. The report’s author, Bill Peacock,…

Energy

Blog

Price controls: right problem, wrong solution

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/05/2024

In an op-ed being syndicated by Inside Sources, I take a look at Kamala Harris’s price control proposals for groceries and housing:…

Business and Government

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: The future of streaming with Geoff Manne

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/05/2024

In this week’s episode we cover social media censorship, automation at US ports, and the property market crash in China. Our…

Consumer Choice

Blog

Congress needs to fight the bureaucracy – and itself

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/03/2024

After testifying before the House Committee on Administration in July on Congress in a Post-Chevron World, I received a series of Questions for…

Deregulation

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: marijuana scheduling and do-not-call fees

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/03/2024

Rather than allow more housing to be built to combat rising rents, the Justice Department sued RealPage, a rent-listing service. CEI’s James Broughel released…

Financial Regulation

Blog

Proof of price gouging is harder to find than Bigfoot

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/30/2024

The concept of “price gouging” is a lot like Bigfoot. Lots of people think it exists and have been chasing it for decades. Yet actual…

Antitrust

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Searching for digital privacy with Jen Huddleston

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 08/29/2024

In this week’s episode we cover the new book What Went Wrong with Capitalism, the problem with price controls (via Brian…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

The power of proceduralism: Lessons from New York’s Uniform Procedures Act

  • By: James Broughel
  • 08/27/2024

Within the labyrinth of environmental regulation, good intentions often pave the way to bureaucratic nightmares. But amidst the tangle of red tape, there occasionally emerges…

Business and Government

Blog

ESG policy trembles in our post-Chevron world

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 08/27/2024

The US Supreme Court recently rendered one of the most historic decisions in administrative law in the consolidated cases of Loper Bright v. Raimondo…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Congressional Review Act votes could claw back some of Biden’s regulations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 08/26/2024

As the Biden-Harris baton-passing administration approaches the final stretch of its first term, a critical deadline has passed that could render subsequent major federal rules…

Deregulation

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: energy labeling and FCC rules for homework

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 08/26/2024

There are now more than 2,000 new final regulations on the year. The Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago. A labor market statistic caused…

Business and Government

Blog

Labor issues 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/26/2024

Labor Day was established in the late 1800s to celebrate workers and their achievements. Back then, manual labor was the dominant type of work for…

Labor and Employment

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Free the Economy podcast: AI and the future of work with Patrick Carroll

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 08/22/2024

In this week’s episode we report from the State Policy Network’s annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona and some of the great reform proposals…

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