The Open Market Blog

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/12/2013

Follow CEI’s commentary on the president’s speech below.

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/11/2012

OPINION RICH LOWRY: "The beginning of the end for big labor" "Michigan is on the verge of passing the kind of “right…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/05/2012

OPINION KENNETH ROGOFF: "Innovation Crisis or Financial Crisis?" "Recently, a few writers, including internet entrepreneur Peter Thiel and…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/04/2012

OPINION DEREK THOMPSON: "If You Don't Watch Sports, TV Is a Huge Rip-Off (So, How Do We Fix It?)" "If you watch…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/03/2012

OPINION DAVID KRAVETS: "Internet Hangs in Balance as World Governments Meet in Secret" "There’s a lot of sky-is-falling doomsday predictions about the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/30/2012

OPINION VIRGINIA POSTREL: "A Free-Market Fix for the Copyright Racket" "While most of the punditocracy was chattering earlier this month about Mitt…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/29/2012

OPINION NATE SILVER: "In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns" "Companies like Google and Apple do not have their own…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/27/2012

OPINION SPENCER ACKERMAN: "Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You" "The Pentagon wants to make perfectly clear that…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/26/2012

OPINION PAUL HOWARD and STEPHEN PARENTE: "ObamaCare Faces the Implementation Iceberg" "Defenders of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/20/2012

OPINION DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH: "With Ethanol, Obama Ignores Common Sense" "Since being re-elected, in a triumph of political loyalty over consumer protection, President…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/20/2012

On November 15, CEI hosted a premiere party for “I, Pencil: The Movie,” our animated adaptation of Leonard E. Read’s essay. You can watch the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/19/2012

OPINION JORDAN BLOOM: "An Anti-IP Turn for the GOP? (UPDATE: RSC disowns and pulls the brief)" "A Republican Study Committee policy brief released…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/13/2012

OPINION NAOMI ROVNICK: "The Great Firewall of China looms higher around the Communist Party congress" "China’s biggest political event for a decade…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/05/2012

OPINION MIKE BOSTOCK and SHAN CARTER: "512 Paths to the White House" "If Mr. Romney loses Florida, he has only one way…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/01/2012

OPINION M.C.K.: "They Did Not Have to Be So Unfair" "On one side of the ledger, we see that the big banks…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/31/2012

OPINION THOMAS HAZLETT: "David Axelrod Is Right: The Buffett Rule Is a Cheap Shot" "The President, like Buffett (and Mitt Romney), reduces…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/26/2012

OPINION DEVIN LEONARD: "The Plot to Destroy America's Beer" "He examined the label. It said the beer was no longer brewed in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/25/2012

OPINION JAMES BENNET: "Interview with Michael Bloomberg on Everything From Campaign Money to Circumcision" "I think it's government's job not to ban…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/24/2012

OPINION MICHAEL C. OSBORNE: "Michael Shellenberger to climate activists: It’s not the end of the world" "At the core of the Breakthrough…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/23/2012

OPINION SCOTT GOTTLIEB: "ObamaCare vs. Women" "Here’s a sampling of what the Preventive Services Task Force dings: chlamydia screening in most women…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/22/2012

OPINION NICK GILLESPIE: "George McGovern, Libertarian Hero" "[W]hen you take a longer view of his career -- especially after…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/19/2012

OPINION ROBERT BRYCE: "A123 Goes Chapter 11" "The collapse of A123—as well as the January bankruptcy of another electric-car-battery maker,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/18/2012

OPINION LACHLAN MARKAY: "Another DOE-Backed Solar Company Goes Bankrupt" "A solar company that got a multi-million-dollar grant from the Department of Energy…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/17/2012

During last night's debate, President Obama and Governor Romney referred to small business 23 times. (Obama did it eight times; Romney did it fifteen…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/17/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "Five Bad Ideas in Tonight's Debate" "E-Verify: Mitt Romney is normally very upset about the potential job-killing impact of regulations,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/16/2012

OPINION CHARLES LANE: "Liberals’ green-energy contradictions" "Al Gore is about 50 times richer than he was when he left the vice presidency…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/15/2012

OPINION DAVID BIELLO: "Can the City that Never Sleeps Forego Nuclear Power?" "On October 15, a three-judge panel hears evidence on whether…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/12/2012

OPINION PETE PETERSON: "Should Romney Seek the Public Sector Vote?" "At first blush, the headline on the Government Executive websiteseems…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/11/2012

OPINION ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL: "If I Fly a UAV Over My Neighbor's House, Is It Trespassing?" "Technically, I'd gone over the fence…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/10/2012

OPINION MIKE RIGGS: "Obama Says He Wants to Debate Civil Liberties With Romney; Here's Some Atrocious Decisions He Should Explain" "'If Obama…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/09/2012

OPINION DAMON LAVRINC: "Auto Dealers Whine That Tesla Stores Are Illegal" "Buying a new car has always meant one thing: going into…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/05/2012

OPINION CASS SUNSTEIN: "Why Should Regulators Have to Listen to You?" "In light of the defining importance of the due process clause,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/04/2012

OPINION LARRY KUDLOW: "Romney Politely Cleaned Obama's Clock" "Mitt Romney politely cleaned Barack Obama's clock tonight. A lethargic and at times tired…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/03/2012

OPINION SPENCER ACKERMAN: "DHS Counterterror Centers Produce ‘A Bunch of Crap,’ Senate Finds" "Unnamed DHS officials told the panel the fusion centers…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/02/2012

OPINION BEN JOHNSON: "Where Does It Come From?" "[I]n 2012, finding out exactly how, where, and when something was made is more…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/01/2012

OPINION BLAKE HURST: "Organic Illusions" "A recent study by a group of scientists at Stanford University found that the nutritional benefits of…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/28/2012

OPINION KATE HAVARD: "It’s Not Really a Farm Bill" "This week, Congress is under pressure to pass the 2012 farm bill before…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/27/2012

OPINION LYLE DENNISTON: "How much privacy does the Constitution guarantee for the blood’s chemistry?" "It is clear, under the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/26/2012

OPINION MICHAEL F. CANNON & JONATHAN ADLER: "The IRS Has Gone Rogue" "A president who says “I haven’t raised taxes” has authorized…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/25/2012

OPINION ELIOT SPITZER: "We Must Defend Even the Ugliest Free Speech—Especially When There Are Riots" "Rarely has the value of free speech…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/24/2012

OPINION DANA GOLDSTEIN: "The Apprentice" "Volkswagen opened its first American plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 2010, and executives knew from the start…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/19/2012

OPINION ANDREW LEONARD: "Stop That Smartphone!" "The Romney 'secret' fundraising video reminds us all of a basic truth of the contemporary age:…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/18/2012

OPINION RAMESH PONNURU: "The Right Is Wrong to Pin Obama’s Edge on Welfare State" "The underlying idea is that the more people…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/17/2012

OPINION THE ECONOMIST: "The Tyranny of Choice" "Wheel a trolley down the aisle of any modern Western hypermarket, and the choice…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/13/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "For Immigrant Kids, Canada and Australia Are The Real Lands Of Opportunity" "The story of immigrant success—usually hard work…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/12/2012

OPINION MICHAEL LEWIS: "Obama's Way" "[Obama] doesn’t watch cable news, which he thinks is genuinely toxic. One of his aides told me…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/11/2012

OPINION GRACE-MARIE TURNER: "Why Barack's Silence on Obamacare?" "Democrats came on strong in celebrating what they also now call ObamaCare during speeches…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/07/2012

OPINION STEVEN GREENHUT: "Scandals Show California Is Broken, Not Broke" "It started in May 2011 when Governor Jerry Brown…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/06/2012

OPINION TONY DOKOUPIL: "The Original Drug Czar" "Dr. Peter Bourne is on a high these days. The self-described “first drug czar”—the first…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/05/2012

OPINION GENE HEALY: "Dinesh D'Souza Is the Right's Michael Moore" "I lost an hour and a half of my life Sunday at…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/04/2012

In Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22, Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a walking parody of a conscience-free capitalist. After he impulsively buys all the cotton in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/04/2012

OPINION JOHN H. COCHRANE: "CBO Demands a Leap of Faith on the Fiscal Cliff" "How does the CBO come up with these…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/31/2012

OPINION DONALD BOUDREAUX: "Inconceivable Complexity" "A market economy is indescribably vast and complex—its success depends on so many intricate, changing details all…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/24/2012

OPINION AMELIA HAMILTON: "Government Regulation Slowing Energy Jobs and Economic Growth" "With unemployment in the United States at 8.3%, job growth is…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/21/2012

OPINION SALLY PIPES: "Gov. Deval Patrick's New Health Law Is Flat-Out Dangerous" "Beacon Hill was the scene of great fanfare earlier this…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/17/2012

OPINION ROB COX and RICHARD BEALES: "Since When Does a Huge Hedge Fund Need Subsidies?" "Since when does a huge hedge fund…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/16/2012

Today in Slate, Aisha Harris explains why the cast of David Cronenberg’s new film Cosmopolis features only one American actor: Back in May, David…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/15/2012

OPINION LINDSAY ABRAMS: "Pot May Improve Cognitive Functioning in Bipolar Disorder" "At least one prior study has shown than cannabis might have…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/14/2012

OPINION SALON: "Helen Gurley Brown: A Life in Links" "In an undated video, [Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley] Brown talked to Small Business…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/13/2012

OPINION ADAM COHEN: "Is Your Car Being Tracked by a License Plate Scanner?" "If you drive through Maryland, the state may be…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/10/2012

OPINION ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER EDITORIAL: "Is California Getting Too Much CARB?" "Californians recently have been learning about $54 million that was unspent…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/08/2012

OPINION STEVE FORBES: "To Help Free Market, Bury the Hatchet" "We all want America’s economy to improve and realize that crony capitalism…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/07/2012

OPINION A. BARTON HINKLE: "Abortion Debate Skewers Political Pieties" "According to a sympathetic piece in The Washington Post, Codding has 'tried for months'…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/01/2012

OPINION JOHN MERONY: "A Conservation With Gore Vidal" "[Hillary Clinton] would have been a wonderful president. As for my support for Obama,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/30/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "How to Ban Chick-Fil-A From Your City" "I hope that friends of free speech will note that while the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/27/2012

OPINION CONOR FRIEDERSDORF: "The Problem With the NYPD's Interstate Spy Squad" "The fact that the September 11 attacks targeted New York City,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/26/2012

OPINION EMILY BAZELON: "The GOP's Self-Inflicted Wounds" "Pennsylvania’s voter ID law goes on trial today. The first thing…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/25/2012

OPINION ANDREW KENT: "Just Don't Ask For Money" "Last week, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights sued…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/24/2012

OPINION JEFF GREENE: "Robots, Trade and Your Job" "I'll never forget the retiree with a heavy accent who said, 'I worked in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/20/2012

OPINION AMITY SHLAES: "Let States Do the Tax-Collecting Dirty Work" "But the best ideas don’t spread spontaneously. That line from the …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/18/2012

OPINION THE ECONOMIST: "Gas works: Shale Gas is Giving a Big Boost to America's Economy" "[S]hale contributes a third of America’s gas…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/17/2012

OPINION ROB COX: "Yahoo Tackles Existential Problem With Engineering" "[Yahoo] has hired Marissa Mayer, one of the few females to rise up…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/16/2012

OPINION MICHAEL HASTINGS: "Bright Lights, Big Secret" "It’s been exactly 372 days since Vargas revealed, in a New York Times Magazine cover…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/13/2012

OPINION DEREK THOMPSON: "The End of TV and the Death of the Cable Bundle" "Every year, 100 million homes pay for a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/12/2012

OPINION RANDY BARNETT: "Amend the Commerce Clause" "In last week’s decision upholding the constitutionality of most of the Affordable Care Act, the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/10/2012

OPINION DAN LYONS: "Apple’s Move to Spite Google and Use Its Own Map Software Hurts Customers" "Apple’s late CEO Steve…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/09/2012

True or False: In the United States, a couple who wants to have a baby must first go through expensive testing of the male partner's…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/06/2012

OPINION WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL: "Not Content With Winning, Obama Aides Rewrite Court's Ruling" "From the moment the Supreme Court rewrote Obamacare's individual…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/05/2012

OPINION DAVID THIER: "The Web for the Neighborhood" "In 2011, 'I Wish This Was' made the jump from the storefront to the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/03/2012

OPINION EMILY BADGER: "Debating the Local Food Movement" "A libertarian-leaning academic with a thick French-Canadian accent, [Pierre] Desrochers was in Washington, D.C.,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/29/2012

OPINION TOM SCOCCA: "Obama Wins the Battle, Roberts Wins the War" "Yes, Roberts voted to uphold the individual mandate, joining the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/27/2012

OPINION MEGAN GARBER: "Orbitz Discriminates Against Mac Users . . . Just Like It Should Be Doing" "The Wall Street Journal…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/26/2012

OPINION BAYLEN LINNEKIN: "I Say Tomato, You Say No" "With summer now upon us, gardening season is in full swing. And that…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/22/2012

OPINION PAUL KRUGMAN: "Prisons, Privatization, Patronage" "You might be tempted to say that [the drive to privatize government functions] reflects conservative belief…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/20/2012

OPINION SCOTT TIMBERG: "Steal This Album: What Happens if No One Pays for Music?" "The dissonance here between fan and musician emerges…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/19/2012

OPINION SPENCER ACKERMAN: "NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You" "The surveillance experts at the National…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/18/2012

OPINION MEGAN GARBER: "Canada Will Spy on People, Politely" "Here is a Canadian initiative: Airports and border crossings are being fitted…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/15/2012

OPINION JAMES DeLONG: "It's Not a Welfare State, It's a Special Interest State" "The problem is that the concept of 'welfare' has…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/12/2012

OPINION DEREK THOMPSON: "Are Unions Necessary?" "It hasn't been a good week for unions in America. Actually, it hasn't been a good…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/08/2012

OPINION ANDREW NAPOLITANO -"Where Is the Outrage Over the Domestic Use of Drones?" "What Jeffersonians are among us today? When drones take…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/07/2012

OPINION NICK GILLESPIE (Interview on NPR): "Do Plastic Bag Bans Help the Environment?" "[T]his comes down to a question of, you know,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/31/2012

OPINION ZACH WEISSMUELLER: "Zoning vs. Eminent Domain - How Ventura County Shut Down The Pine Mountain Inn" "Tom Wolf owns the…