EconomyNews
The Obama administration’s decision to give up U.S. control of regulating the internet is likely illegal, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said. “The Obama administration does… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Last month, America’s economy added just 38,000 jobs, the weakest growth in five years. We should expect more than the lackluster 2 percent growth we’ve grown… Read More
EconomyCommentary
On May 5, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule known as the Deeming Regulation, extending its authority under the Family Smoking Prevention… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Last week, the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union. The U.K.’s earlier decision to stay out of the euro currency (which most, but… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Britain’s vote to leave the European Union serves as a lesson for U.S. trade negotiators that the goal of trade agreements should be to increase… Read More
EconomyCommentary
A recent report out of Harvard University has found the number of struggling household renters at an all-time high. A table in the appendix of the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
At the heart of the decision by the U.K. to leave the European Union was an evident desire of the British people to restore economic… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Obama administration is responsible for thousands of new regulations—including a historic number of major regulations. As the costs of these regulations add up, they… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
Last December, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rushed an arbitrary and ineffectual recreational drone-owners’ registry into effect, mere days before Christmas and just in time… Read More
LawCommentary
According to a recent article in The Fashion Law, the Federal Trade Commission is attempting to regulate fashion bloggers by arguing that their online sponsorships… Read More
EconomyNews
Opponents have been swimming upstream for years in an effort to sink a federal catfish inspection program that they argue wastes millions of taxpayer dollars…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Environmental regulations constitute a hefty portion of America’s regulatory burden, in large part because “reform” is an alien concept within the Environmental Protection Agency. But… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
A task force of House Republicans on Tuesday released an agenda for regulatory reform, the latest in a series of policy documents designed, according to… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
Sixteen months after the Federal Communications Commission imposed heavy new regulations on broadband services, a federal appeals court—by a 2-1 vote—upheld the new rules. The… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
In a 5-2 ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Puerto Rico cannot create its own bankruptcy law because the Federal Bankruptcy Code preempts… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
The Obama administration first announced its intent to end the historical U.S. contractual relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The rule of law requires an orderly and predictable judicial system that guarantees citizens the right to seek redress through the courts for wrongs they… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is among the most inappropriately named laws ever enacted in the U.S. It neither reformed… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In every Soviet-era military unit, the long shadow of totalitarian political control hung over day-to-day operations. A political commissar served alongside commanding military officers to… Read More
EconomyNews
House Republicans are priming the pump for the next president to overhaul much of the financial regulation enacted in the aftermath of the 2008 global… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued its long-awaited rule proposal to regulate small-dollar lenders such as those who provide payday loans. Formally, the CFPB’s… Read More
EconomyNews
When Joey Vanoni returned to the United States from Afghanistan in 2013, he went to work putting his dream of owning a pizza business into… Read More
EconomyCommentary
A recent study by The Heritage Foundation revealed that President Barack Obama has created a whopping total of 20,642 regulations during his presidency. Now that… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
The tide of red tape that threatens to drown U.S. consumers and businesses surged yet again in 2015, according to a Heritage Foundation study we… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The federal regulatory state is out of control. It is out of control economically, costing Americans between $1 trillion and $2 trillion per year in artificially inflated… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Obama economy has been tough on America’s working families. Just last week Pew Research Center reported that in the last 15 years “the middle… Read More
EconomyCommentary
On May 9, residents of Austin, Texas, accomplished what many New York City regulators and legislators have tried in vain to achieve: they forced Uber… Read More
EconomyCommentary
It is no surprise that “lawfare” attacks by the left on traditional American values have ramped up since President Barack Obama took office. What has… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Regulation doesn’t prevent financial crises—a fact that the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act conveniently ignored. Born from the myth that deregulated… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Of all the words that the American people use to describe Congress today, one of the most common—and accurate—is unaccountable. As hardworking men and women… Read More
