CEI Weekly: Merry Christmas!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Feature: Watch our short Christmas video, above!

Merry Christmas! As we at CEI prepare for the holidays, we've noticed that most of our favorite Christmas movies make capitalists out to be villains. So we put together this short video as a reminder of the Yuletide benefits of the market. Watch above, or at this link. SHAPING THE DEBATE The FDA vs. Commercial Speech Greg Conko and Henry I. Miller's article in Reason Magazine Create Wealth, Not Jobs Iain Murray and David Bier's op-ed in The Washington Times Behind the UAW's Aw Shucks Smile Vincent Vernuccio's op-ed in The American Spectator Grinches and Scrooges Dislike Facebook This Christmas Wayne Crews' column on Forbes Obama's Big Labor Wins a Big One Ivan Osorio and Russ Brown's op-ed in The American Spectator Dead People Get Lots of Other Entitlement Benefits Hans Bader's letter to the editor in The Washington Examiner Government Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Itself Wayne Crews' citation on FoxBusiness.com Texts, Lies, and Distracted Driving Marc Scribner's citation on The Volokh Conspiracy AT&T Admits Defeat on T-Mobile Takeover Ryan Radia's citation on Ars Technica The Death of Kim Jong Il, the Unraveling of North Korea and More Iain Murray and David Bier's citation in The Washington Post Blogs

CEI PODCAST December 22, 2011 -- The Keystone XL Pipeline Politicians usually love infrastructure projects. But politics has delayed the privately owned Keystone XL pipeline’s construction for three years now. Research Associate David Bier explains the reasons behind the delay, and points out that the pipeline’s real benefit isn’t the jobs it would create; it’s the wealth and value it would create. BEST OF THE BLOGS 2011 Brought Lots of Good News for Salt Lovers By Greg Conko Butter-nomics: Protectionism and Food Shortages By Daniel Rivera Another Year of Incandescence By Brian McGraw This Week in the Congress By Myron Ebell