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Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
April 12, 2018
Today's hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Facebook's use of consumer data took a much more aggressive tone than yesterday's hearing in the Senate. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), congresswoman for California's 18th District, which includes Silicon Valley, was unwilling to makeÃâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
April 10, 2018
This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before three congressional committees to answer questions about the privacy scandal that's engulfed the social media platform since mid-March, when The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that a British voter-profiling companyÃâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
April 10, 2018
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Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 29, 2018
In 1992, in the case of Competitive Enterprise Institute & Consumer Alert v. NHTSA, a federal appeals court ruled that the agency had deliberately “obscured the safety problem” through a combination of “fudged analysis,” “statistical legerdemain,” and “bureaucratic mumbo jumbo.” In the court's view, it wasÃâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 23, 2018
Including such values within the framework of a society is crucial in laying the groundwork on which further technological innovation can flourish. In that same spirit, please join my Competitive Enterprise Institute colleagues and I this weekend when we celebrate Human Achievement Hour, our annualÃâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 23, 2018
Human Achievement Hour—to be observed tomorrow, March 24, between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm—is the Competitive Enterprise's Institute's annual celebration of innovation and progress. During this hour, people around the world pay tribute to the advancements that inventors and entrepreneurs haveÃâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 22, 2018
The Competitive Enterprise Institute's observance of Human Achievement Hour this week celebrates this optimism, as does its annual Julian L. Simon Memorial Award, to be presented this year to acclaimed Peruvian economist and property rights advocate Hernando de Soto. Pierre Desrochers is the 2017Ãâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 20, 2018
Transitioning to a world in which different skills are valued might be difficult, but in the long run, everybody benefits. These are the sort of benefits—the gains from innovation—that we here at the Competitive Enterprise Institute are celebrating this week in the run-up to this year's Human Achievement Hour.
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 19, 2018
Environmental activists want you to “take action for our planet and nature” by sitting in the dark for an hour on March 24th. But we at the Competitive Enterprise Institute would rather keep the lights on and celebrate Human Achievement Hour, because we recognize that living well is not a crime. In fact, theÃâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 15, 2018
Here at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, we spend a great deal of our time developing ideas to improve how we govern, in order to advance the health, welfare, and economic station of people everywhere. This is why several years ago we launched Human Achievement Hour, an annual celebration ofÃâà...
