The Open Market Blog

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/22/2006

The Washington Post continued its hard-hitting series attacking farm subsidies today. The article notes that some important counter-forces to the big-bucks farm lobbies are…

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/22/2006

Frank Johnson, the Thatcherite journalist and wit, died recently at the tragically early age of 63. It has been a bad year for Thatcherites –…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/21/2006

Yesterday, President Bush announced that he may go along with Congressional Democrats’ proposal for an increase in the federal minimum wage, in exchange for…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/20/2006

According to news reports, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will release on Wednesday a database showing just which farmers get part of the $56…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/20/2006

Two books about her have been published this year, numerous book reviews have hailed her role in the Enlightenment, and an op-ed…

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/20/2006

In a world were geriatric actor Kirk Douglas can say to “America’s young people”: “THE WORLD IS IN A MESS and you are inheriting…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/20/2006

It’s almost cliched now to say that free market advocates expecting Republicans to control the growth of government shows the triumph of hope over experience,…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/19/2006

I missed reading the Financial Times yesterday (Fred stole it), so missed until today Lucy Kellaway’s riotous column where she gives business jargon awards…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/19/2006

The Charleston Daily Mail editorial page recently featured “Rockefeller is Out of Line” a critique of the Senator’s “intemperate attempt to squelch debate.” Sen.

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/19/2006

Is it my imagination or is there an increasing trend to view the greenies and their fears as chicken littles, whiners, and basically nuts? It…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/18/2006

Today the European Union’s trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, rejected carbon border taxes as an approach to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by imposing tariffs…

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/18/2006

Those with longer memories may remember some hue and cry just over a year ago when various Inuit communities joined with environmental groups to claim…

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/18/2006

Daniel Schrag, a Harvard climatologist, is disgusted at the way the democratic process handles his issue. So disgusted, in fact, he…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/16/2006

The intersection between commerce and culture is a space that few people have occupied as successfully as Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, who passed away…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/15/2006

The U.S. and China completed their economic talks today, with both sides calling the dialogue successful in reaching agreement on several strategic issues.

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/13/2006

The changes in Congress accelerate what has already been a trend toward the “universal health care plan” long endorsed by all “right thinking Americans.” One…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/13/2006

William Saletan, Science and Technology writer for Slate, has weighed in on New York City’s decision to ban transfat use. His rhetorical case against transfats…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/12/2006

New York’s increased competition from other world financial centers, such as London and Hong Kong, due to the increased regulatory burden imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/12/2006

It’s now official — Vietnam notified the World Trade Organization December 12 that it had ratified its WTO membership agreement and will be joining…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/11/2006

In what may be the political understatement of all time, Tom DeLay explains the thinking behind his new blog, in part, with the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/11/2006

Letters to the Editor in the Financial Times are usually literate, civil, and informed. Sometimes too they are also passionate. Such is the case with…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/11/2006

A front-page article in Sunday’s Washington Post, titled “Dairy Industry Crushed Innovator Who Bested Price-Control System,” recounts how Arizona dairy farmer Hein Hettinga thought…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/11/2006

CEI and Fred Smith make appearances in Radicals for Capitalism, the upcoming history of the modern American libertarian movement by Reason Senior Editor and…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/10/2006

Cato’s Brink Lindsey in a provocative essay in The New Republic argues that the recent election results argue for a realignment, Democrats, he suggests,…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/07/2006

Several public policy groups are beginning to set up limited operations within the virtual realm called Second Life; lectures, publications, that sort of thing.

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/05/2006

Some Oprah viewers are posting their thoughts on Al Gore’s appearance on “Oprah” today — and CEI’s Marlo Lewis’s response — and the comments exhibit…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/05/2006

CEI’s Marlo Lewis will be appearing on “Oprah” this afternoon, answering Al Gore’s claims of impending global warming catastrophe, as seen…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/04/2006

Shakespeare in Love star Gywneth Paltrow has decided that dinner party chatter is much more entertaining in her adopted England than in the redneck-infested…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/04/2006

It’s not often that one can claim she invented something more than a half-century ago that now in making it big in the retail sector.

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/04/2006

The New York Times yesterday told how the specialty crop producers — those farmers who grow fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other non-commodity crops —…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/01/2006

Presidential-hopeful Governor Mitt Romney just named his top economic advisors for his campaign: Glenn Hubbard, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors; Greg…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/01/2006

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office sent to the Congressional leadership on November 17, 2006, outlines some key areas where the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/30/2006

Quick quiz: what political types are more likely to donate to charity – lefty liberals or crochety conservatives? The Chronicle of Philanthropy has an…