OpenMarket: September 2017

In a world full of tweets, Instagram posts, and BuzzFeed quizzes, many Millennials haven’t taken time to think about big government and its implications, but I’m here to drop some knowledge on you as to why we should want to shrink government bureaucracy.

Let’s look at the big picture. Government agencies are ridiculously inefficient, they regulate pretty much every aspect of our lives, and they waste billions of tax dollars a year.

Now, let’s take a look at some agencies in particular, starting with the Environmental...

A new study by retired Yale University epidemiologist Leon Robertson blames global warming for a 7 percent increase in U.S. road deaths in 2015 compared to 2014. At first, I was tempted to dismiss the study as...

I, Whiskey is back on the road this fall with three festivals in California. Earlier this week I, Whiskey was accepted into the Food & Farm Film Fest (9/29–10/1) at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, the film’s second cinema screening.

Later that same week I, Whiskey...

In a major speech...

In 1992 a federal appeals court found that CAFE undercuts vehicle safety, by causing cars to be made smaller and light in order to meet government standards.

Seattle’s bid to force drivers for rideshare companies like Lyft and Uber to pay union dues to the Teamsters continues apace. As we have noted before, this is an unprecedented attempt to force unionization on independent contractors, who even the National Labor Relations Act...

Today, CEI and two dozen other organizations wrote to the chairs and ranking members of the Senate Commerce Committee and Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Subcommittee regarding upcoming confirmations...

It’s refreshing to see that political correctness has little hold on the Trump Administration, enabling common sense policymaking—despite offending the left. One of latest “assaults” on leftist nonsense is the reversal...

The debate over financial regulation is stuck in a false dichotomy. Many see it as a zero-sum trade-off between protecting consumers on the one hand, and defending business interests on the other. This was on display over the weekend as Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), addressed a crowd at the...

UPDATE: The U.S. House voted to approve the SELF DRIVE Act on September 6, 2017. 

The full House of Representatives is scheduled to consider the Safely...