The Open Market Blog

• 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

• 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