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• 05/13/2009

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• 05/05/2009

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• 04/15/2009

The good folks from MillionTeaBags.org dropped by CEI today after the Park Service told them that while they had a perfectly legal permit to…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/28/2009

If you haven’t yet, you should consider subscribing to OpenMarket.org’s RSS feed.  RSS—Really Simple Syndication—is an easy way to get all your favorite website,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/13/2009

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• 03/07/2009

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• 03/06/2009

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• 02/19/2009

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• 02/18/2009

White House spokesman Ben LaBolt says President Obama "does not believe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated." If this is true, Mr. Obama may soon…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 02/13/2009

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 02/12/2009

While Congress seems recklessly bent on “stimulating†this nation off an economic cliff, not just Gregg but the whole country should reject the idea that…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 02/09/2009

on February 20th Stanford economist John B. Taylor will be publishing a book analyzing the financial collapse.  According to the book’s current home on the…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 02/09/2009

The Cato Institute continues to gather support against the stimulus from economists, including 3 Nobel Laureates. Despite this growing resistance, President Obama still insists that…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 02/09/2009

CEI's former Warren Brookes Fellow, Eileen Norcross, tells us that when it comes to the stimulus bill, we can't have our cake and eat it…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 02/09/2009

President Obama is tired of the old ideas, the Washington that existed for the last eight years when we suffered under policies that didn’t work. …

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 02/02/2009

As the "Stimulus Package" nears passage in the Senate, you can get involved by evaluating the projects that are most likely to be funded with…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/30/2009

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/29/2009

Jesse Walker at Reason gives us a how-to guide on stifling the other side of any debate and finding success in Washington.  Of course,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/28/2009

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/27/2009

CEI has been vocal in its opposition to the stimulus plan. Turns out, we're not alone. The Cato Institute has collected the signatures of 200…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/22/2009

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• 01/21/2009

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• 01/20/2009

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• 01/20/2009

The Washington Post reports that President Bush will be starting something called the “Freedom Institute” as part of his presidential library in Dallas. This…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/20/2009

As millions gather on the national mall today to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama, many are looking to the new president as a leader…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/16/2009

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• 01/15/2009

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/09/2009

The municipal bond scandal has already forced New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to withdraw his name as Barack Obama's appointee to the position of Commerce…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/05/2009

Through twists of logic that only a recent Nobel Prize winner could muster, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman tries to make us believe that…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/05/2009

Effective this week, Members of Congress will be making a $174,000, that's $4,700 more than last year and the 10th time in a decade that…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/18/2008

Yahoo! announced on Wednesday that it will only be holding on to user behavioral data for 3 months, instead of the previous 13 months,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/15/2008

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• 12/09/2008

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• 12/09/2008

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• 12/04/2008

I’ve got a couple posts up at TechLiberation.com today that are worth checking out. The most recent “…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/02/2008

Barack Obama will be nominating Eric Holder, former Clinton Administration deputy attorney general, to become the nation's highest ranking law enforcement official.  This has folks…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/20/2008

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has jurisdiction over media regulation, network neutrality, mergers, antitrust, trade, and a whole host of other issues that effect…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/19/2008

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• 11/19/2008

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/18/2008

Working at a think tank you hear a lot of complaints about America’s left-leaning universities and professors and their hostility to free market ideas.  These…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/17/2008

The American auto industry is facing some tough times and, bailout or not, will eventually have to go through a difficult period of readjustment.

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/17/2008

You can visit GMFactsandFiction.com supposedly to get some facts about why GM ought to be given billions of your tax dollars. You'll find, however,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/17/2008

Hat tip to Iain Murray for pointing out this gem at The Onion: In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/14/2008

The G20 meet today at the White House to determine how to save the world’s economies.  Yet, these are the same folks who for years…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/14/2008

From AfricanLiberty.org: A detailed anylysis of events that led to the financial crisis and the half-hearted measures being proposed by governments to solve it.

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/13/2008

BusinessWeek quoted CEI’s own Sam Kazman in a recent piece, “Automakers’ $25 Billion Fast-Track Bailout,” about the auto industry’s recent run to Washington for…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/12/2008

Wayne Crews, OpenMarket.org contribuor and CEI Vice President for Policy, was cited yesterday in CFO Magazine: “While [Sen. Obama’s advisers are] busy trying to…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/10/2008

Greg Mankiw, a professor of economics at Harvard University, offers up some good advice for the new President-elect in the form of a post…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/10/2008

Bret Swanson, a senior fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation and friend of CEI had an excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/10/2008

CEI President Fred Smith and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, John Berlau, wrote a piece for the Washington Times addressing the international economic…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/07/2008

What will life be like under an Obama administration with even larger Democratic majorities in Congress?  CEI’s Vice President for Policy, Wayne Crews, spoke with…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/06/2008

"Yes We Can" is a good slogan.  It's short, it's simple, it's positive, and it makes people feel like part of something significant.  Its certainly…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/05/2008

I’ve started a new Facebook discussion on if/how advocates for free markets can work with the new administration.  Sen. Obama claims to respect free…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/05/2008

Last night after President-elect Obama had given his acceptance speech the punditry machine started up again.  Tom Brokaw, a veteran anchorman at NBC, surprisingly made…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/04/2008

The Hill reports today that: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday defended the so-called Fairness Doctrine in an interview on Fox News, saying, “I…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/04/2008

Since Bill Clinton ran in 1992 and MTV decided to “Rock the Vote” the youth vote has been something often talked about, but something that…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/03/2008

You can now donate to the Competitive Enterprise Institute here on the OpenMarket.org blog.  You can setup…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/31/2008

OpenMarket.org is trying to win the Blogger’s Choice Award for the best political blog.  Just a few dozen votes should do it.  If you’d…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/23/2008

Think the world’s economy can be managed by political leaders and experts?  The rate at which the world is changing and at which our knowledge…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/23/2008

Today the DC Examiner has a point/counterpoint today (the two articles are linked to seperately below) on the topic of trains.  Both sides are decidedly…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/22/2008

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• 10/08/2008

From ACU's new issue of Battleline. ACU board member Joe Morris contributes an email from our new economic Czar:…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/07/2008

I can’t embed this because it keeps getting pulled. Thanks to Pat Dollard for hosting this video. This is what SNL should be doing, speaking…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/02/2008

View my page on Bureaucrash Social Bureaucrash, the activist arm of CEI, has started a new social network called, you guess it:…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/29/2008

LibertyWeek, CEI’s weekly podcast, covered the bailout and the financial meltdown on Wall Street in its last episode.  “Bailouts & Ballparks” features an interview…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/16/2008

Check out me and Richard Morrison doing another episode of CEI’s weekly podcast, Liberty Week.  This week we cover: The “meltdown” on Wall Street…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/12/2008

Rad Berky of NewsChannel 36 in Charlotte, North Carolina reports that fears of Hurricane Ike disrupting the supply of gasoline has…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 08/15/2008

Forbes magazine grabs a terrific quote from 10,000 Commandments, an annual report authored by Wayne Crews, CEI’s Vice President for Policy.  The report focuses…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 07/14/2008

The rights of homeowners to form associations is under attack in Maryland, where some residents believe that the state should forbid homeowners associations HOAs from…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 05/16/2008

I’m looking for examples of effective tech lobbyists. We’ve seen a lot of people moving from the Valley to the Hill lately. Microsoft has gone…