-
1 week ago | 
cei.org | Daren Bakst |Ryan Smith
The 45Q tax credit serves as an incentive for power plants and industrial facilities to invest in carbon capture and sequestration/storage. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) expanded the use of this credit. Sen.
-
3 weeks ago | 
cei.org | Richard Morrison |Ryan Smith
In this week’s episode we cover Autumn Billings on donor privacy, Wayne Crews on the DOGE legacy, and Joey Politano on the effects of import taxes on the US auto industry. Our interview this week is with Justin Callais, chief economist at the Archbridge Institute. We’ll talk about tariffs, exemptions, cronyism, inefficiencies, and Qatari jets. Read Justin’s recent article “Tariffs Exemptions Are Crony Capitalism at Its Worst” here.
-
1 month ago | 
cei.org | Jessica Melugin |Ryan Smith
The movement in the Biden and Trump administrations of antitrust officials away from consumer welfare and towards a federal judiciary of active regulation is on full display in the Google search trial. The remedies sought by the current Department of Justice (DOJ) are an unprecedented and unwise ceding of critical business decisions to unelected officials and the judiciary. If imposed, users’ privacy may take the biggest hit.
-
1 month ago | 
cei.org | Ryan Young |Ryan Smith
The 2025 edition of Wayne Crews’s Ten Thousand Commandments is out now. The economy shrank 0.3 percent in the first quarter of 2025 as damage from tariffs began to show. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from aircraft registration secrecy to responsive federal executives. On to the data:Agencies issued 28 final regulations last week, after 25 the previous week. That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every six hour.
-
2 months ago | 
cei.org | John Berlau |Ryan Smith
On Friday, federal financial regulators made the right decision in approving the merger of Capital One and Discover. In their joint approvals of the merger, the Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) seemed to recognize points made by CEI in its favor. Namely that, far from being anticompetitive, the merger could introduce new, game-changing competition into the markets for credit and payments.
-
2 months ago | 
cei.org | Ryan Young |Ryan Smith
President Trump and El Salvador president Nayib Bukele confirmed that they would continue to imprison people without due process. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from showerheads to stormwater. On to the data:• Agencies issued 36 final regulations last week, after 32 the previous week. • That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every four hours and 40 minutes. • With 694 final regulations so far in 2025, agencies are on pace to issue 2,345 final regulations this year.
-
2 months ago | 
cei.org | Sean Higgins |Ryan Smith
President Trump’s newly-confirmed labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, has been viewed with suspicion by many on the free-market right. She can rectify that by adopting the same free-market approach as Trump’s previous picks for the cabinet position, Eugene Scalia and Alexander Acosta. We at Competitive Enterprise Institute have some ideas on how she can do that.
-
2 months ago | 
cei.org | Jessica Melugin |Ryan Smith
The third episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, moves beyond the earliest days of the internet to the beginning of the Dotcom Era. Spam makes its first appearance on early internet forums, angering the small online community. Dueling lawsuits leave early web companies with a massive question: can they moderate speech without getting sued off the face of the earth?
-
Mar 18, 2025 | 
cei.org | Jessica Melugin |Ryan Smith
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 Telecommunications Act, is behind America’s amazing tech boom as well as the internet experience we all rely on and take for granted today.
-
Jan 6, 2025 | 
cei.org | Ryan Smith
At this point, it is easier to name the major home appliances that have not been hit with bad regulations from the Biden administration – televisions are off the hook. But for just about everything else, Department of Energy (DOE) bureaucrats are going all out with anti-consumer rules, including ones for furnaces, air conditioners, washing machines and dryers, light bulbs, refrigerators, ceiling fans, dishwashers, and stoves.
