The Open Market Blog

• By: John Berlau
• 07/31/2007

An Associated Press story today on proposed "carried interest" tax hike legislation aimed at soaking private equity had this interesting description of what the…

• By: John Berlau
• 07/20/2007

As the 110th Congress has passed its six-month mark, there is one committee that has significantly improved. This is the House Small Business Committee, which…

• By: John Berlau
• 05/16/2007

My friend Phil Kerpen rightly takes to task the Congression Democratic leadership in his column on National Review Online for what seems to be…

• By: John Berlau
• 03/15/2007

Iain, in addition to Eli, here’s another CEI Yank putting in a good word for your home country. They do it right…

• By: John Berlau
• 03/10/2007

CEI would never argue that the current federal student loan programs are perfect. They are a mishmash of subsidies and regulations that cause distortions, not…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/28/2007

In selecting Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” as the winner for best documentary, the Academy Awards sent a disturbing message to aspiring documentary makers. The…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/22/2007

Intrepid Journalist Kevin Mooney of CNSNews.com just filed a can’t-miss story on Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. On the verge of the Academy Awards,…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/14/2007

The news media is sending a scary Valentine to American couples. They’re claiming that Valentine’s Day roses imported from Colombia may have been “dipped in…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/06/2007

Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has all but declared himself a Republican presidential candidate by filing an official “statement of candidacy” and saying he is “in…

• By: John Berlau
• 01/31/2007

By proclamation of several cities and states, Monday was Milton Friedman Day. CEI was one of many free-market groups that joined in this…

• By: John Berlau
• 01/23/2007

Consumer Reports’ retraction last week of its flawed testing of infant car seats puts in question the magazine’s credibility as an unbiased product evaluator.

• By: John Berlau
• 11/06/2006

One of this election’s “October Surprises” may have come on Nov. 1, when Chuck Schumer, Democratic Senator from New York and chairman of the Democratic…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/27/2006

Republicans have long been accused of being the party of Wall Street, a campaign charge that’s again being leveled in this election. But on the…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/23/2006

CEI has nothing against tattoos. Some of our staffers proudly sport them. And we generally have a live-and-let-live, libertarian philosophy. But now, in a twist,…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/12/2006

There’s a saying that the most revealing part of Academy Awards speeches is who isn’t thanked. There is often a similar truism about…

• By: John Berlau
• 09/25/2006

An op-ed I wrote for last Sunday’s Washington Times talked about the battle over the interchange fees that banks and credit card companies charge to retailers. The…