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Several years ago, I assembled a “Costberg” working paper surveying the largely impenetrable and undisclosed costs of regulation. The project grew out of several simple ob...

The number of new final regulations in 2026 topped the 2,000 mark. President Trump escalated his trade war against Canada and issued an executive order to rename Lake Ontario. Dolly Parton and Tim Curry passed away. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from rail cargo to Mushroom Council membership.

On to the data:

In this week’s episode we cover the status of occupational licensing

Less than two years ago, the biggest controversy surrounding prediction markets was their enabling of speculation on elections. Then in early 2025, with both court rulings and an administration change liberalizing federal regula...

Individual regulations are often defended as necessary on their own terms. But as CEI Senior Fellow Wayne Crews’ Ten Thousand Commandments documents, the cumulative effect of regulations like the one in question is a mass of federal requirements that impo...