The Open Market Blog

• 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

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/14/2014

CEI Fellow Michelle Minton discusses why a federal ban on online gambling would be counterproductive.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/12/2014

Despite nearly 60 new regulations and more than 1,300 Federal Register pages, regulations remain on a below-average pace this year. On to the data: Last…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/08/2014

Marc Scribner talks about his new paper, "Self-Driving Regulation."…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/02/2014

77 new regulations, from gooseberry imports to preventing collisions at sea.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/29/2014

Wayne Crews talks about the new 2014 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/29/2014

The 2014 edition of Wayne Crews’ annual Ten Thousand Commandments report comes out today…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/28/2014

84 new regulations, from spearmint oil to hot air balloons.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/23/2014

Senior Fellow John Berlau argues that a bill from Senators Tim Johnson and Mike Crapo intended to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would only…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/21/2014

84 new regulations, from stair-climbing wheelchairs to crustacean irradiation.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/17/2014

Iain Murray, CEI's Vice President for Strategy, along with Freedom Association Director Rory Broomfield, won second place Institute for Economic Affairs' Brexit Competition. The goal…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/14/2014

59 new regulations, from rearview cameras to pocket gophers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/09/2014

Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini talks about her new Consumer's Guide to Chemical Risk.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/07/2014

79 new regulations, from whistleblowers to watermelon promotion.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/03/2014

Senior Fellow William Yeatman is skeptical of an EPA report claiming the Clean Air Act will have nearly $2 trillion in annual benefits by 2020.

Consumer Well-Being

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/31/2014

64 new regulations, from refrigerators to Korean chicken.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/27/2014

CEI Fellow Marc Scribner talks about his new paper, “Bait and Reciprocal Switch: Forced Access Regulation Threatens the Rail Renaissance.”…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/17/2014

67 new regulations, from reformulated gasoline to vitamin D2.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/10/2014

84 new regulations, from soybean referendums to jaguars.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/06/2014

Last week was Stop Government Abuse Week in Congress, and the House passed a number of reform bills that would increase government transparency. One of…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/04/2014

81 new regulations, from grading grapefruit to detaining journalists.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/24/2014

35 new regulations, from helicopter ambulances to infant formula.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/20/2014

CEI Fellow Ryan Young discusses the large stock of existing regulations and the rapid flow of new regulations.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/17/2014

56 new regulations, from lamp fixtures to handling potatoes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/12/2014

CEI Fellow Marc Scribner opposes a bill that would ban in-flight cell phone usage on airplanes. He believes that decision should be left to airlines,…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/10/2014

55 new regulations, from kiwifruit administration to dehumidifiers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/03/2014

Over at The Hill's Congress blog, Wayne Crews and I make the case for reining in the regulatory state as a way to improve the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/03/2014

52 new regulations, from hedge funds to California dates.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/28/2014

One of progressivism’s most admirable traits is its concern for the little guy. But many progressive policies for alleviating poverty, unemployment, and other social problems…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/27/2014

43 new regulations, from flood elevations to extra parentheses.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/20/2014

57 new regulations, from shoeing horses to Florida avocados.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/16/2014

Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia argues that while the case looks like a victory on the surface, it still gives the FCC plenty…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/13/2014

38 new regulations, from job descriptions to Cape Sable thoroughworts.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/06/2014

66 new regulations, from school lunches to furnace fans.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/02/2014

With unemployment still painfully high more than five years after the financial crisis, Senior Fellow in Labor Policy Aloysius Hogan thinks that re-extending unemployment insurance…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/02/2014

Over at the Washington Times, I encourage the Fed to taper back the rest of the QE program, and point out that the Fed may…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/30/2013

74 new regulations, from non-toxic ammunition to shrimp electronic logbooks.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/23/2013

71 new regulations, from charitable donations to video programming for the blind.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/18/2013

The Food and Drug Administration recently banned 23andMe, a genetic testing service, from marketing its product to consumers. CEI Executive Director and Senior Fellow Gregory…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/16/2013

56 new regulations, from toddler beds to eagle permits.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/09/2013

95 new regulations, from mad cow disease to falconry federalism.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/02/2013

77 new regulations, from red porgies to homopolymers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/27/2013

Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini debunks scare stories about chemicals in your family's Thanksgiving dinner, from BPA in canned foods to naturally occurring pesticides in potatoes.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/25/2013

60 new regulations, from salamanders to beans from Jordan.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/18/2013

66 new regulations, from corporate mergers to dried bacteria.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/11/2013

78 new regulations, from toy guns to tires.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/07/2013

A new CEI study finds that the most expensive ingredient in beer isn’t grain, hops, or equipment: it’s taxes. Study co-author and Fellow in Consumer…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/04/2013

92 new regulations, from student loan paperwork to government employee travel allowances.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/31/2013

Iain Murray and I have a piece in today's American Spectator breaking down the new paper we co-wrote with John Berlau.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/30/2013

George Mason University law professor and Mercatus Center senior scholar Todd Zywicki discusses his paper, "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Savior or Menace?"…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/29/2013

Even if it is nominally independent, the Federal Reserve is arguably the government’s most important agency. It has control over the price system, the most…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/28/2013

78 new regulations, from energy-efficient urinals to interstate turtle requirements.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/21/2013

Shutdown edition: 3 new regulations. Two Coast Guard safety zones and a catch limit for herring.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/17/2013

The next day or two will also be slow ones for the Federal Register. But then there will be a flood of new rules as…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/15/2013

Short answer: not much. Over at the Daily Caller, I go over some data from this shutdown, as well as the two Gingrich-Clinton showdowns.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/15/2013

Shutdown edition: 6 new regulations, from Basel III to bridge repair.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/07/2013

113 new regulations, from drawbridge schedules to viticultural areas.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/02/2013

The Office of Management and Budget reviewed a grand total of 47 regulations last year, or a little more than 1 percent of the total.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/30/2013

80 new regulations, from bird hunting to fluted kidneyshells.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/23/2013

Senators Angus King (I-Me.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) are introducing a bill that would create just such a commission. Over at The American Spectator, Wayne…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/23/2013

76 new regulations, from pet stores to food containers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/16/2013

61 new regulations, from banned avocados to sweet corn insurance.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/09/2013

58 new regulations, from foreign tax credits to growing dates in Riverside County, California.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/05/2013

Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton puts a scary new study about energy drinks and children into its proper, non-scary context.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/03/2013

81 new regulations, from “shared responsibility payments” to Segelflugzeugbau sailplanes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/29/2013

Have a listen here. In 2010, the FCC issued regulations to implement net neutrality. The resulting legal challenge is about to hit the D.C.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/26/2013

80 new regulations, from hunting migratory birds to grading avocados.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/19/2013

71 new regulations, from D-Day reenactments to bio-fuel usage.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/15/2013

Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner thinks the charges are overblown, and has ideas of his own for increasing competition.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/12/2013

83 new regulations, from sweet cherries to air.

Regulatory Reform