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Ryan Young  

Fellow in Regulatory Studies

Ryan Young is Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His writings communicate ideas from economics and classical liberal political theory in layman’s terms. He has covered issues ranging from airplane baggage restrictions to fiscal stimulus to salary caps in baseball.

He has been published in Politico, Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, Real Clear Markets, and other outlets, and his work has been cited in Congressional testimony. Ryan has also been cited in Yahoo! Finance, Instapundit, eWeek, and Media Matters, among other venues. He writes the popular “Regulation of the Day” feature for Open Market, CEI’s staff blog, and also blogs for The American Spectator.

Ryan holds an M.A. in economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and a B.A. in history from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He was previously the 2009-2010 Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at CEI, and worked in the Cato Institute’s government affairs department. Ryan’s personal blog is Inertia Wins.

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