The World Series of Poker is underway. The tournament is perfectly legal. And anyone over 18 can play poker in a casino. But it has been illegal to play the game online since April 15, now known to poker fans as Black Friday. Policy Analyst Michelle Minton goes over the controversy and explains why prohibition doesn’t work.
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Posted in CEI Podcast, Nanny State, regulation
Tagged gambling, illegal gambling, michelle minton, online poker, poker, prohibition, wsop
Senior Fellow Greg Conko breaks down the fight over Avastin, a drug used to treat several types of cancer. The FDA is poised to rescind Avastin’s approval for treating breast cancer. It will retain its approval for other cancers. This will make life difficult, and possibly shorter, for some breast cancer patients. Conko believes this battle boils down to one question: who decides which treatments patients can use? Will it be the FDA, or doctors and patients?
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Posted in CEI Podcast, Health Care
Tagged avastin, breast cancer, cancer, cei podcast, fda, fda approval, Greg Conko
Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s regulatory czar, announced today that the administration intends to repeal regulations from 30 different agencies. CEI Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray thinks this is a good step, though a small one. He estimates today’s proposal would save about $1.5 billion, which is one-tenth of one percent of the $1.75 trillion total burden of federal regulation.
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Tagged cass sunstein, deregulate to stimulate, deregulation, epa, iain murray, obama, OSHA, regulation, regulatory czar
A new study says that high-salt diets may not be as harmful as once thought. Research Associate Daniel Compton takes a look. He also points out that, even if salt is a health hazard, regulating salt intake probably won’t work as planned.
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Tagged bloomberg, Nanny State, nyc, nyc salt, salt, salt intake
Land Use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner looks at China’s experience with high-speed rail, and finds that it may not be a very good deal for the United States. Costs are so high that revenues don’t even cover the interest on the $271 billion of debt that high-speed rail has incurred for China.
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Posted in CEI Podcast, Economics, Spending
Tagged china, high speed rail, hsr, marc scribner
Kathryn Ciano guest hosts. Carrie Lukas, Managing Director of the Independent Women’s Forum, argues that the pay gap between men and women isn’t due to discrimination. She also wrote the issue last week in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
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Posted in CEI Podcast, Economics
Tagged carrie lukas, discrimination, equality, gender discrimination, gender equality, iwf, pay gap, wall street journal, wsj
Russ Brown, a vice president at the Labor Relations Institute and a CEI Adjunct Analyst, talks about recent changes made to the Railway Labor Act that make it easier for airline workers to unionize. Brown recently co-authored a CEI OnPoint paper on the reforms. Congress voted against the changes in legislation, so they were passed via regulation instead. This is another example of regulation without representation.
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Tagged labor, labor relations institute, labor unions, lri, railway labor act, rla, russ brown, unions
Human Achievement Hour founder Michelle Minton talks about the annual celebration of human creativity and innovation that happens at the same time every year as Earth Hour. Ecology and economy are quite compatible. One definition of progress, after all, is doing more with less. When people are left free to achieve and innovate, that is exactly what happens, to the environment’s benefit — and mankind’s.
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Posted in CEI Podcast, Technology, The New Religion
Tagged accomplishment, achievement, Earth Hour, ecology, economy, environment, environmentalism, Human Achievement Hour, innovation, michelle minton, optimism, progress
CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman talks about how ever-stricter energy efficiency regulations are making washing machines more expensive and less effective than they used to be. Sam recently wrote about the issue for The Wall Street Journal; you can read his article here.
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Posted in CEI Podcast, regulation, The New Religion
Tagged "Sam Kazman", energy efficiency, energy efficient washers, energy efficient washing machines, environmental regulations, wall street journal, wsj
Inertia Wins! 