The Open Market Blog

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 01/08/2009

Looks like my colleague Iain Murry and I concur on President-elect Barak Obama’s selection of Cass Sunstein to head the…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 12/08/2008

A recent article in today’s New York Times details the perils of an industry that is greatly impacted and propped up by government regulations: the…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 12/04/2008

Bottled water is often a lifesaver in times of natural disaster or when communities have problems with tap water. It also has…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 08/20/2008

According to news reports, New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg wants to build a wind farm to meet 10 percent of New York City’s energy…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 08/19/2008

We keep hearing in the news these days that bottled water and tap water are basically the…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 08/13/2008

Bottled water is supposedly so “wasteful” that the U.S. Conference of Mayors had to issue a resolution calling on governments to…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 05/27/2008

The Washington Examiner has an editorial today titled “Environmentalism is not about the Environment.”  Indeed. …

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 05/09/2008

Andrew Grossman of the Heritage Foundation recently released an important paper on a Senate…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 04/30/2008

If you ever thought that governmental economic planning or market manipulation is a useful tool, take a look at this article in today’s Washington…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 04/24/2008

It’s a funny thing about the greens. They support government controls over everything in society in the name…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 04/16/2008

Reading the headline of a Washington Post story today, you would think that government researchers have made a new and major finding on a…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 04/07/2008

Today, the new green badge of honor appears to be going to people who build and live in “green homes” that meet standards set by…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 04/02/2008

The Bush Administration has decided that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is too bureaucratic to follow when it comes to building a fence along…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 03/06/2008

Environmental activists want to regulate bottled water out of existence because they say that it is a waste of resources because the alternatives–such as filtered…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 03/05/2008

It is ironic that environmentalist hype about global warming and green calls for alternative fuels are undermining some of the greens’ very own programs and…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 02/29/2008

In recent months, environmentalists have been saying that bottled water is wasteful and no healthier than tap. They are helping advance bottled water taxes, bans…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 01/15/2008

If you are not on Junkscience.com’s, daily email, you might want to sign up. This daily dispatch sends along nuggets of good information and…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 01/14/2008

A recent article on a garbage crisis in Naples Italy confirms what I’ve always believed—such trash crises all have roots in government planning. Nations…