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### The week in regulations: Coachella air quality and yogurt vitamins

- By: Ryan Young
- 09/08/2025

The Federal Register, which tracks daily regulatory activity, has become less transparent. Jobs numbers for August were disappointing and actually shrank in June for…

Regulatory Reform

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### Trump’s Unified Agenda of deconstruction: Writing rules to erase rules

- By: Clyde Wayne Crews
- 09/08/2025

“It is the policy of my Administration to focus the executive branch’s limited enforcement resources on regulations squarely authorized by…

Deregulation

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### ‘Contradictory to Our Country’s Laws’

- By: David S. McFadden
- 09/09/2025

Introduction In the first days of the second Trump administration, elusive aspirations of confining agencies of the federal government to their legitimate functions suddenly seemed…

Business and Government

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### The week in regulations: Date taxes and manifest mailing

- By: Ryan Young
- 09/15/2025

Political commentator Charlie Kirk was killed while speaking at an event. While the Producer Price Index went down in August, the Consumer Price Index climbed…

Deregulation

### Free the Economy podcast: Tariffs and economic freedom with Matt Mitchell

- By: Richard Morrison
- 09/11/2025

In this week’s episode we cover the latest jobs numbers, the emergent community of abundance fans, the limits to taxing billionaires,…

Deregulation

### Trump’s Intel stake and the Peronist precedent of Obama’s auto bailouts

- By: John Berlau
- 09/09/2025

President Trump’s decision to take a 10-percent ownership stake in chipmaker Intel has been described by many commentators as “socialism.” Others have…

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### Trump’s call to end corporate quarterly reporting mandates would boost competitiveness, end onerous regulation

- John Berlau
- 09/15/2025

President Trump today used a social media post to call on the SEC to end quarterly reporting mandates for publicly traded companies and instead move…

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### Inflation increased 0.4 percent in August, all eyes on the Fed’s next move: CEI analysis

- 09/11/2025

The Consumer Price Index report for August showed a 0.4 percent increase in inflation across all sectors. With Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs being implemented…

Business and Government

### New downward revision for jobs numbers not surprising: CEI analysis

- Ryan Young, Sean Higgins
- 09/09/2025

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that there were 911,000 fewer jobs between March 2024 and March 2025 than previously reported. While this…

Labor and Employment

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### Dear Mr. President: The Letters of Julia Sand

Discover how one citizen motivated the President of the United States to throw supporters of the spoils system out of his sphere of influence and lead Congress to pass Civil Service Reform, ultimately bringing an end to the corrupt bureaucratic system that had made him. Coming April 2025.

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### Modernizing the EPA

Modernizing the EPA: A Blueprint for Congress is a major CEI project to reform the EPA and ensure that the agency regulates like it is 2025, not 1975. The first part of the Project is our book that lays out specific and concrete recommendations for legislators on how to modernize the agency. The next step is turning these ideas into legislative change. We hope you will join us in this effort.

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The Federal Trade Commission is harming consumers and threatening innovation. CEI's new 'Eye on FTC' project spotlights the agencies overreach to help inform legislators, and, ultimately, to restore the agency’s core mission of protecting consumer welfare.

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### The Case for Small and Big Business in America

There’s growing sentiment in Washington that the size of a business alone might be a sign of danger—whether to its smaller competitors or consumers. This has pushed Congress and federal agencies to use antitrust policy to prevent mergers and acquisitions. However, this approach overlooks consumers and leaves unclear what qualifies as “too big.” Our latest video explains why our economy thrives and consumers benefit from both small and big businesses.

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For decades, CEI has analyzed the expanding reach of unelected bureaucrats. Now, the Unconstitutionality Index—a concept pioneered by CEI scholar Wayne Crews—is shaping conversations at the highest levels of government.

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### Diary Of Deconstruction: Trump Releases Unified Agenda Of Federal Regulations

- By: Clyde Wayne Crews
- 09/05/2025

As the leaves begin to fall, the Trump administration has at last released Spring 2025 edition of the semiannual “Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and…

Business and Government

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### Op-Ed: Lawmakers deserve credit for recent success against the Green New Deal

- By: Daren Bakst
- 09/02/2025

Lawmakers took a significant step toward ending the Green New Deal. In the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), they started to dismantle the radical…

Energy and Environment

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### Point: AI Won’t Take Our Jobs Away

- By: Sean Higgins
- 08/28/2025

For an alternate viewpoint, see “Counterpoint: Trump’s Extreme Anti-Labor Policies Could Determine the Effect of AI on Labor.” Read enough headlines about artificial intelligence and…

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