The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/24/2012

68 new regulations, from summer flounder fishing to switching contractors.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/19/2012

In today's Washington Times, Wayne Crews and I write about a reform that has nearly two decades of bipartisan support, has a proven track record…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/17/2012

69 new regulations, from Spanish translations of used car buyers guides to shortnose suckers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/14/2012

Montreal mulls requiring dogs to be bilingual, USDA regulates polydactyl cats, plus more.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/12/2012

Fellow in Consumer policy Studies Michelle Minton argues that the beer industry in America is essentially a monopoly. In her new paper "Avoid a Monopoly…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/10/2012

94 new regulations, from apricots to civilian flights in Iraq.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/06/2012

Senior Fellow Matt Patterson discusses why public sector workers make substantially more money than their private sector counterparts.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/03/2012

88 new regulations, from phone bill formatting to food labels.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/27/2012

Senior Fellow Angela Angela Logomasini talks about her forthcoming CEI study, "Rachel Was Wrong: Agrochemicals’ Benefits to Human Health and the Environment."…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/26/2012

32 new regulations, from dehumidifiers to solid waste.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/21/2012

Senior Fellow Matt Patterson breaks down the controversy surrounding confection maker Hostess' perilous position.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/19/2012

48 new regulations, from medical paperwork to longshoremen’s headwear.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/15/2012

Alfred Kahn's lesson for regulators: "Do you want to be precisely wrong or approximately right?"…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/13/2012

The trucking industry went to extraordinary lengths to fight deregulation in the 1970s.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/13/2012

Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow Matthew Melchiorre explains what both sides of the Atlantic need to do to avoid fiscal catastrophe.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/12/2012

61 new regulations, from organic food residue to amateur rocketry liberalization.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/08/2012

Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner explains why the election turned out the way it did, and what the results mean going forward for…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/08/2012

A midnight rush is on the way, though it will likely be smaller than if Romney had won the election.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/05/2012

60 new regulations, from dishwashers to falconry.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/01/2012

Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia argues that Google's current dominance as an Internet search engine service is a fragile thing. Creative destruction is…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/29/2012

77 new regulations, from animal drugs to phone bills.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/23/2012

Externalities, asymmetric information, and monopolies are useful concepts for understanding how regulators should behave. But the important thing is how they do behave.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/22/2012

71 new regulations, from gas mileage to certifying seafarers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/15/2012

38 new regulations, from amateur rocket operations to the definition of “night.”…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/11/2012

When it comes to government transparency, it is essential to throw at least some sunlight on the problem. Over at the Daily Caller, Wayne Crews…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/11/2012

Policy Analyst David Bier thinks the world could use more Americans. And an easy way make happen is through increasing legal immigration. America's superior economic…

Immigration

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/09/2012

88 new regulations, from background checks for volunteers to silky sharks .

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/02/2012

The federal regulatory process is a complicated thing. As with any complex body of law, there are loopholes that agencies can exploit.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/01/2012

71 new regulations, from prune insurance to Colombian tariffs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/24/2012

82 new regulations, from Indian casinos to bailouts for fruit tree owners.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/21/2012

Seatbelts for dogs, surveillance cameras for surveillance cameras, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/20/2012

Regulatory agencies have an eternal incentive to expand their missions and grow their budgets. One consequence of this is that their cost-benefit analyses cannot be…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/19/2012

Non-economists tend to be much more skeptical about economic freedom than economists are. This in itself is a powerful case for free markets. But empirical…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/17/2012

76 new regulations, from DEA property seizures to place-of-origin requirements for wine.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/10/2012

51 new rules and 1,641 Federal Register pages, from storing explosives to keeping fisheries accountable.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/07/2012

School officials forbid 8-year old Colorado boy from wearing his Peyton Manning jersey to school because of possible gang ties.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/07/2012

Senior Fellow Greg Conko discusses his new paper, "Is There a Future for Generic Biotech Crops? Regulatory Reform Is Needed for a Viable Post-Patent Industry."…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/06/2012

America's air traffic control system can be charitably described as an antique. Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner describes some of the problems the…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/04/2012

74 new rules and 2,086 Federal Register pages, from migratory birds to cranberries.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/31/2012

Doormats banned in Leeds, exploding sausages in Canada, plus more.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/30/2012

Senior Fellow Greg Conko argues that these rules should be scrapped altogether for two reasons: they will do little to improve food safety, and they…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/30/2012

When Armstrong, Aldrin, and Michael Collins returned to Earth after the Apollo 11 mission, they actually filled out a customs form.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/29/2012

David Deerson and I look at how such a committee might work in a piece over at RealClearPolicy:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/27/2012

76 new rules and1,687 Federal Register pages, from offshore drilling to odometers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/24/2012

A creative way to get around liquor permits, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/23/2012

Senior Fellow Matt Patterson argues that when government is big and powerful enough to dispense favors like bailouts, special interests will flock to Washington to…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/23/2012

The NFL has a 53-man roster limit, but it doesn't prescribe how many linemen or quarterbacks the team must carry. That's up to the GMs.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/23/2012

The FDA recently decided to delay implementing about $1.4 billion of food safety regulations until after the November election. We think the FDA should scrap…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/20/2012

65 new rules, from offshore drilling to closed captioning.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/17/2012

Fines for inaccurate weather forecasts, illegal chocolate egg smuggling, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/16/2012

Severe drought in the Midwest has driven corn prices to record levels. Policy Analyst Brian McGraw argues that ending the federal government's ethanol mandate could…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/16/2012

Agencies are well-equipped for passing regulations, but not for repealing them. This becomes a problem as the years march on, and dusty old rules that…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/13/2012

68 new rules, from health care to Glasflugel gliders.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/10/2012

Nathan Duszynski is 13 years old and lives in Holland, Michigan. His stepfather has multiple sclerosis. His mother has epilepsy. Neither is able to work.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/10/2012

If you want different results, you need different rules. Allowing two-thirds majorities of the states to repeal federal laws and regulations is one rule change…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/09/2012

When the TSA installed full-body scanners in airports across the country, they did so illegally. Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner explains how a…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/06/2012

85 new regulations, from prairie dogs to corporate jets.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/31/2012

Kern County, California's government takes morality very seriously. Chapter 9.12.010 of the County Code states that “No vendor shall vend stuffed articles depicting the female…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/30/2012

86 new rules last week, covering everything from Florida tomatoes to tug boat races.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/24/2012

Research Associate David Deerson explains why past efforts to rein in unfunded mandates failed, and why new legislation that Congress is set to vote on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/23/2012

81 new rules and 1,283 Federal pages last week, covering everything from sippy cups to perch fishing in Alaska.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/19/2012

Congress will soon vote on a package of reforms for holders of the H-1B visa for high-skilled immigrants. Policy Analyst David Bier unpacks the proposed…

Immigration

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/16/2012

84 new rules and 1,412 Federal Register pages, covering everything from fair use of the FBI's anti-piracy seal airline pilot's working hours.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/13/2012

Britain bans starting pistols from track meets, plus more.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/13/2012

A small food company in Canada has grown an apple that doesn’t turn brown after being sliced. Not everyone thinks it’s a great idea.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/10/2012

Everyone's favorite sexy-searchers are back in the news, but not for the right reasons.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/10/2012

A cool startup company called Uber operates in about half a dozen cities in the U.S. and Canada, and is growing fast. Think of…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/09/2012

71 new rules and 1,388 Federal Register pages covering everything from wedding entertainment to collisions at sea.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/05/2012

Prohibition ended 79 years ago, but in Washington, D.C., it is still illegal to buy liquor on Sundays. Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/03/2012

Sebastian Trager built a replica of Fred Flintstone’s car, but regulators won't let him drive it.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/02/2012

According to federal regulations, you may not, in fact, stick a feather in your hat and call it macaroni.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/02/2012

101 new final regulations, covering everything from Costa Rican flowers to tanning.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/28/2012

The Supreme Court upheld the health care bill, as you've no doubt heard by now. Over at the Daily Caller, I offer a few quick…

Consumer Well-Being

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/28/2012

The federal government regulates the slopes of miniature golf courses.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/25/2012

Our innate tendency to truck and barter, as Adam Smith put it, is very strong indeed.

Trade and International