The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/18/2015

The Export-Import Bank’s charter expires on June 30. This series of posts makes the case for closing Ex-Im, one argument at a time. See also…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/17/2015

The Export-Import Bank’s charter expires on June 30. This series of posts makes the case for closing Ex-Im, one argument at a time. See also…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/16/2015

Reasons to Oppose the Ex-Im Bank, Part 2: Its Favors for Some Businesses Hurt Other Businesses The Export-Import Bank’s charter expires on June 30. Unless…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/15/2015

The Export-Import Bank’s charter expires on June 30. Unless Congress votes to reauthorize that charter, Ex-Im will soon cease to exist. This would be a…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/15/2015

It was a prolific week for the Federal Register, with more than 1,700 pages covering everything from real estate appraisal to water banks. On to the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/12/2015

Over at the American Spectator, University of Chicago lecturer Frank Schell recently published a column arguing that the Export-Import Bank should be reformed, not…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/09/2015

At this point, it looks like Congress will let the Export-Import Bank’s charter expire on June 30. This is not a big deal in grand scheme…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/08/2015

New regulations last week covered everything from growing cherries to airport security fees to preventing collisions at sea. On to the data: Last week, 65…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/05/2015

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) chairs the House Financial Services Committee. The Export-Import Bank’s reauthorization falls under his jurisdiction, and he has been one of the…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/04/2015

Henry Hazlitt is most famous for his book Economics in One Lesson. Export-Import Bank supporters have consistently ignored a very important part of Hazlitt’s simple…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/02/2015

In most years, nearly half of the Export-Import Bank’s business is for Boeing’s benefit. The relationship between the two is so cozy that Ex-Im’s informal…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/01/2015

It was a four-day work week because of the Memorial Day holiday, but regulators still had a busy week, with new regulations covering everything from…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/26/2015

The big regulatory news from last week was the publication of the semiannual Unified Agenda, which lists most upcoming regulations from rulemaking agencies at various…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/18/2015

It was a slow week despite more than 1,300 Federal Register pages, with just 36 proposed regulations and fewer than 50 final regulations, ranging from spearmint oil…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/11/2015

Last week’s raft of new rules covers everything from school lunch workers to Flugzeugbau gliders. On to the data: Last week, 65 new final regulations…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/04/2015

The 1,000th new regulation of 2015 was published in Friday’s Federal Register, which itself hit the 25,000-page mark on the year. Even so, agencies are still…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/27/2015

The big news in regulation for the week came from Canada, which made official its one-in, one-out policy for new regulations. New regulations from agencies…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/16/2015

Things have been busy on the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank front. For those not in the know, the Ex-Im Bank makes loans and guarantees loans for…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/06/2015

It was a fairly typical week, with nearly 70 final regulations and more than 50 proposed regulations hitting the books, covering everything from potato handling…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/30/2015

Along with last wwek’s usual slew of final regulations covering everything from power plants to televisions, an additional 55 proposed regulations also hit the books.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/23/2015

New rules published in the last week include everything from the IRS and Executive Office of the President declaring themselves exempt from select transparency laws,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/16/2015

An otherwise slow week ended with a bang on Friday, with 27 new regulations, or nearly half the week’s total, covering everything from calorie counts…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/09/2015

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the King v. Burwell case last week. The decision, likely to appear in June, will determine in part whether regulatory…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/02/2015

The FCC, inspired by a law passed in 1934, unveiled its controversial plan to regulate the Internet as a public utility. Beyond that it was…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/23/2015

In a very cold, holiday-shortened week, federal agencies issued 40 final and 33 proposed regulations covering everything from lithium-ion batteries to small fish in Oregon.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/19/2015

How much does regulation crimp innovation? Not very much, according to a new study from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Nathan Goldschlag and George Mason University’s Alex…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/16/2015

In a week like any other, regulatory agencies issued more than 50 new rules covering everything from from rockfish to wine. On to the data:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/09/2015

Last week’s batch of new rules covered everything from fluorescent lights to postage rates. On to the data: Last week, 59 new final regulations were…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/02/2015

Regulators stepped up their pace last week, with nearly 80 regulations covering everything from defibrillators to Korean oranges. On to the data: Last week, 77…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/29/2015

Here’s a letter I wrote to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that appears in today’s paper: The Post-Gazette’s editorial board calls on Congress to reauthorize the Export-Import…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/26/2015

Even in a shortened work week due to Martin Luther King Day, federal agencies still put out 40 final regulations and more than 50 proposed…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/19/2015

40 new regulations, from solid waste to washing machines.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/12/2015

Happy New Year to all of our regulatory followers! Wayne Crews previously summed up 2014’s year-end statistics in this post. Among the highlights are 3,541…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/29/2014

The federal government took Thursday and Friday off to celebrate the holidays. Despite the rare three-day work week, agencies still published 25 proposed regulations, more…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/22/2014

69 new regulations, from washing machines to plants for planting.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/15/2014

While Congress was busy with the 1,603-page Cromnibus bill (full text), agencies added nearly that many pages to the Federal Register with new regulations for everything…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/10/2014

Many progressives strongly support minimum wage increases. This is troubling, because the effects those increases actually have on many poor people are regressive. Signaling your concern for…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/08/2014

While the number of new regulations last week was normal, their cost was abnormal, totaling well over half a billion dollars just for the four…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/01/2014

Is it possible for opposite policies to both be wrong? Over at the Washington Examiner, I argue that it is. The U.S. is ending…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/01/2014

Regulators had much to be thankful for during the short Thanksgiving work week, with new rules covering everything from grocery store ads to wireless signal…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/24/2014

It was a bit of a slow week as these things go, but regulators still published new rules on everything from stress testing to sage…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/17/2014

The Federal Register took Tuesday off to observe Veterans’ Day. The short week was still a busy one, with Thursday’s edition alone totaling 783 pages. On to…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/03/2014

In the final week before the midterm election, agencies published new regulations ranging from dairy profits to Japanese oranges. Fittingly, the total number of new…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/27/2014

Minimum wages help some workers, which is why they are so popular. But they aren’t a free lunch. There are tradeoffs. They aren’t always easy…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/27/2014

It was business as usual, with new rules hitting the books on everything from political speech restrictions to butterflies to football broadcasts. On to the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/20/2014

The federal government took Monday off for Columbus Day, but still managed to pack more than 50 new regulations into a short week. On to…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/14/2014

Even with a mid-term election coming up next month, agencies are cranking out a dozen or so new regulations every workday. The federal government also…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/09/2014

President Obama is right that Congress doesn’t do much. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, of course. But the pen and phone strategy Obama proposed…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/06/2014

The Federal Register topped the 60,000-page mark on Friday, and is on pace for the 6th-highest page count in its 79-year history. Along the way,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/29/2014

A busy week ended with a flourish, with Friday’s Federal Register alone containing 28 final regulations and 542 pages.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/17/2014

Congress hasn’t voted just yet on the Continuing Resolution that includes the Export-Import Bank’s reauthorization. But we already know that it will pass this week,…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/15/2014

The number of new regulations topped 2,500 on the year, while the Federal Register added 1,853 pages to end the week just shy of the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/11/2014

A vote on the Continuing Resolution, which includes the controversial Export-Import Bank reauthorization was originally scheduled for today, but has been pushed back to next…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/09/2014

It appears Congress will decide the Export-Import Bank’s short-term fate this week. There are several bills with different reauthorization terms, and Rep. Justin Amash and…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/08/2014

It was a short week due to the Labor Day holiday, but agencies still managed to issue more than 60 new regulations and push the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/03/2014

Congress comes back from its annual August recess next week. One of the top items on its agenda is deciding the Export-Import Bank’s fate. Ex-Im…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/03/2014

In a week like any other, federal agencies issued regulations for everything from dairy farmers’ profit margins to Canadian apple exports.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/25/2014

The Federal Register burst past the 50,000-page mark with Friday’s 878-page effort, which also contained 21 final regulations and four “significant” documents.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/19/2014

About three years ago, our friends at the Mercatus Center launched a website called RegData that compiles a searchable database on many facets of…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/12/2014

One of the weakest arguments against free trade is the "unilateral disarmament" fallacy--that a country should refuse to liberalize its trade policies until other countries…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/11/2014

Despite another 47 proposed regulations and 80 final regulations last week, 2014 remains on pace to have the smallest number of new regulations of any…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/08/2014

Over at American Banker’s BankThink blog, I have a piece making the case for closing the Export-Import Bank, mostly on corruption grounds: The…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/28/2014

Seventy-four new regulations, from spearmint oil to insurance exchanges.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/21/2014

In addition to 100 final regulations, 62 proposed regulations made their way to the Federal Register last week.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/10/2014

Michelle Minton argues that the Wire Act applies only to interstate sports gambling, not online gambling as a whole. The Wire Act's 50-year history…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/08/2014

Over at Rare, I have a piece on the cronyism angle of the Export-Import Bank debate. The Senate will likely vote this on month on whether…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/23/2014

The Federal Register topped the 35,000-page mark last week. New regulations cover everything from tariffs on foreign cheese to dental implants to fireworks shows.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/16/2014

The Kronies are back with a video about the Export-Import Bank, one of the federal government’s largest corporate welfare programs. While the video is less than…

Banking and Finance

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/09/2014

New regulations published last week cover everything from what to call UV lamps used for tanning to the federal government’s National Sheep Industry Improvement Center.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/06/2014

That idea is now captured in a bi-partisan bill in Congress. Wayne Crews and I wrote about it this week in The Washington Times:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/02/2014

62 new regulations, from electric motors to handling kiwifruit.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/29/2014

Seeing as Carson's book set malaria prevention back decades, CEI Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini thinks there are other figures more deserving of such tributes.

Consumer Well-Being

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/26/2014

66 new regulations, from Panama to refrigerants.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2014

CEI Fellow Marc Scribner supports the FCC's attempt to lift a ban on in-flight cell phone use.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/19/2014

77 new regulations, from cotton grading to walk-in coolers.

Regulatory Reform