The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/22/2013

68 new regulations, from Topeka shiners to room air conditioners.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/19/2013

A new cooling fan should arrive in the next two weeks. Until then, the super stop will be a bus stop like any other, unless…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/17/2013

Marty Hahne has put on children's magic shows for almost 30 years. USDA regulations require both a license and a written disaster plan for his…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/15/2013

84 new regulations, from apartment building energy usage to when truckers have lunch.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/11/2013

Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith breaks down the controversy surrounding this year's farm bill.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/09/2013

Over at the American Spectator, I show why an unintentional and unavoidable side effect of regulation is inflation:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/08/2013

78 new regulations, from energy efficiency standards for imports to the California Desert Grape Administrative Committee.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/02/2013

A new study by Warren Brookes Fellow Matthew Melchiorre finds that only 4 European countries out of 27 have actually cut taxes and spending.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/01/2013

80 new regulations, from school lunches to the legal definition of “ski area.”…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/26/2013

Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner discusses the TSA's lack of transparency and the scanners' ineffectiveness in deterring terrorism.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/24/2013

96 new regulations, from fireworks shows near water to handling FOIA requests.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/17/2013

93 new regulations, from tanning taxes to wine labels.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/10/2013

72 new regulations, from federal pecan insurance to avoiding collisions at sea.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/07/2013

June 7 is National Donut Day. General Counsel Sam Kazman is urging Americans to eat not one but two donuts—one for themselves, and one for…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/06/2013

Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner discusses a new CEI study arguing that regulations make passenger train cars unnecessarily expensive.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/05/2013

Over at The American Spectator, Wayne Crews and I marvel at how much the regulatory state has grown over the last twenty years. We also…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/03/2013

George Will's latest column highlights the main findings of Ten Thousand Commandments.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/03/2013

61 new regulations, from Cotton taxes to endangered Hawaiian plants.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/30/2013

The Food and Drug Administration recently announced plans to investigate, and possibly regulate, caffeine consumption. Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton prefers separation of…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/30/2013

In today’s Investor’s Business Daily, Wayne Crews and I make the case that one of the biggest obstacles to regulatory reform is a lack of…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/28/2013

The cost of government is far more than it taxes and spends. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s editorial board agrees, as they opined yesterday:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/28/2013

68 new regulations, from Potato Administrative Committees to Segelflugzeugbau sailplanes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/23/2013

I recently posted that new EU regulations would require restaurants to use factory packaged and sealed bottles of olive oil. This would put small…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/22/2013

The twentieth anniversary edition of Ten Thousand Commandments was released this week. Author Wayne Crews discusses the study, and how regulation has evolved over the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/21/2013

Over at the Daily Caller, Wayne and I briefly summarize of few of the report’s findings.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2013

Starting January 1, 2014, any olive oil served at EU restaurants “must be in pre-packaged, factory bottles with a tamper-proof dispensing nozzle and labelling in…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2013

The Wall Street Journal editorial board weighed in this morning on the issue of regulation, citing a few numbers from the forthcoming 20th anniversary edition…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2013

This week in the world of regulation: Last week, 71 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. This is up from 64 new final…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/17/2013

Height limits for flying witches on broomsticks, mandatory street musician auditions, and more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/15/2013

The state of Indiana regulates the temperature at which convenience stores may sell beer. Specifically, they must sell it at room temperature. Cold beer is…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/13/2013

64 new regulations, from drawbridge schedules to official seals.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/08/2013

CEI Immigration Policy Analyst David Bier is critical of a new Heritage Foundation study that estimates that giving legal status to America's undocumented immigrants would…

Immigration

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/06/2013

62 new regulations, from the federal flood insurance to California olives.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/29/2013

66 new regulations, from the federal Processed Pear Committee to desert buckwheat.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/26/2013

From adjustable headlights to going on strike over tight pants.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/25/2013

Every year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) releases a report on the costs and benefits of the previous year's new regulations. Wayne Crews…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/22/2013

86 new regulations, from sorghum ethanol to training miners.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/15/2013

67 new regulations, from drawbridge schedules to wireless signal boosters.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/11/2013

Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews warns that the higher the deficit goes, the more tempted the federal government is to resort to unfunded mandates,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/11/2013

In today's Investor's Business Daily, Wayne Crews and I point out that the higher deficits go, the more tempting it becomes for Congress to resort…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/08/2013

56 new rules, from school lunches to studying landfills.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/05/2013

Man avoids jail time for falsely yelling out "Bingo!" during a game, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/04/2013

Under the CFAA, it is currently a federal crime to enter an incorrect age on your Facebook profile or an incorrect weight on a dating…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/01/2013

100 new regulations, from collisions at sea to electronic forms.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/28/2013

Despite a court order, the TSA is still dragging its feet on complying with the law. Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner has…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/25/2013

Over at the Daily Caller, Christian Rice and I take a look at a successful regulatory reform model in the UK: the Red Tape Challenge:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/25/2013

59 new regulations, from patent fees to pork export reports.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/18/2013

60 new regulations, from financial management courses to de-icing planes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/14/2013

Over at the Daily Caller, Wayne Crews and I take a look at Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget, the Path to Prosperity. While it would…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/11/2013

If an agency is doing a poor job pursuing its mission, it needs to be held accountable; there is a reason Congress holds the power…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/11/2013

69 new regulations, from grading almonds to lost luggage.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/07/2013

Immigration Policy Analyst David Bier recently wrote for USA Today about a third side in the ongoing immigration debate: population control advocates who oppose immigration…

Immigration

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/06/2013

An overlooked argument in the minimum wage debate is that a high minimum wage gives big businesses an artificial competitive advantage over their smaller competitors.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/06/2013

If there's one thing the regulatory state could use more of, it's transparency. In today's ?Washington Times?, I shine a little light on the FCC:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/04/2013

74 new regulations, from the Citrus Administrative Committee to pecan insurance.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/28/2013

The results of Italy’s general election were announced this week, setting markets on edge across the Eurozone. Warren Brookes Fellow Matt Melchiorre finds the outcome…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/28/2013

Over at the American Spectator, I argue that progressives should look elsewhere for ways to help the poor:…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/25/2013

53 new regulations, from the mental states of federal employees to giving rides to sick or injured people.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

Regulatory agencies need to be much more transparent. One way to do that is through an annual report card with important information about each agency…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/21/2013

CEI and the Adam Smith Institute have teamed up to publish a U.S. edition of Christopher Snowdon's study "The Wages of Sin Taxes." He argues…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/18/2013

90 new regulations, from hot air balloons to Sea World’s fireworks shows.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/14/2013

CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman discusses a lawsuit in which CEI and two co-plaintiffs argue that portions of Dodd-Frank are unconstitutional.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/11/2013

61 new regulations, from your doctor’s stock portfolio to growing wine in Indiana.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/08/2013

"Even if your trading partner dumps rocks into his harbor to obstruct arriving cargo ships, you do not make yourself better off by dumping rocks…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/08/2013

Over at the American Spectator, Wayne Crews and I show just how bad the problem of regulation without representation is by using Wayne's handy Anti-Democracy…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/04/2013

70 new regulations, from airplane bathrooms to advertising seized property.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/31/2013

Federal judges recently struck down four recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, claiming the Senate was in pro forma session when President Obama…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/28/2013

56 new regulations, from medical records to crop insurance.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/24/2013

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell recently released a headline-grabbing plan for the state's transportation funding that would abolish the state's gasoline tax and raise other taxes…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/24/2013

CEI has been pushing a common-sense regulatory reform idea for years: Congress should vote on all regulations with an annual cost of $100 million or…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/21/2013

54 new regulations, from microwave ovens to roof trusses.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/14/2013

52 new regulations, from nematodes to tiltorotors.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/07/2013

28 new regulations, from the United Soybean Board to synthetic drugs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/03/2013

Congress made an unsatisfying compromise deal this week to avoid falling off the fiscal cliff. But Vice President for policy Wayne Crews thinks this is…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/02/2013

More than 400 new laws came into effect today.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/31/2012

54 new regulations, from handling spearmint oil to drug testing railroad workers.

Regulatory Reform