The Open Market Blog

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/20/2007

I cannot put it better than Stephen Pollard, who sums up this article with the well-known oxymoron, “We’re from the Government, we’re here…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/20/2007

Latest wizard wheeze from Her Majesty’s Government – if you’ve left money unused in a bank account for a while, you obviously don’t need it…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2007

Eli, that table actually refers to the generating capacity of new facilities – c.1300 MW over the next few years. There’s not really any way…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2007

Senator Hillary Clinton opines: “I turn off a light and say, ‘Take that, Iran,’ and ‘Take that, Venezuela.’ We should not be sending our…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/19/2007

The current Entertainment Weekly has an interesting little tidbit about the pre-Oscar party for Al Gore thrown by Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith (photos…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/16/2007

I am pleased to say that both this blog and the main CEI web site get through the GreatFireWall of China test. Interestingly, National…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/16/2007

What were climatologists (or climate specialists as they used to be called) saying publicly in the 1970s and before? A quick stroll through the New…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Some stories for your delectation: Two papers from the Director of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska NASA is…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Eli is, of course, correct. Amtrak is in no state to be privatized yet, and the botched BR privatization demonstrated that privatizing a railroad…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Libertarian wrestler Val Venis (real name Sean Morley) has started a blog, The Freetarian.

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Climate scientist James Annan makes an important point about the economics of climate change in a comment (#4) over at Prometheus: “Putting it…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/15/2007

Here are some tidbits and links you may have missed: “Deniers” vs “Alarmists” in a debate in NYC tonight More calls for individual…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/14/2007

Doesn’t anyone in the UK understand the economic concept of “sunk costs” any more?  Three men wrongly convicted of murder and released after many years…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/13/2007

A few days to catch up on, so here are quite a lot of global warming-related stories you may have missed: China will not be engaging in…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/07/2007

Some global warming-related stories you may have missed: British companies involved in the Emissions Trading Scheme enjoy a $1.5 billion profits windfall while energy…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/05/2007

The Wall Street Journal‘s energy blog is reporting that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating possible insider trading in the TXU takeover deal.

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/05/2007

Lots of global warming-related stories you may have missed: Threat of Kyoto is leading to wholesale deforestation in New Zealand. U.N. climate talks…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/02/2007

David Ignatius is worried about the planet’s vulnerability to climate change, citing futurist Peter Schwartz. I see David’s Peter Schwartz and raise him an…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2007

Apparently Al Gore now uses Green Power to light and heat his home, so he isn’t entirely hypocritical. However, the issue here is that…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2007

When I read about sainted Al’s massive power demands I immediately thought, “Surely he must use Green Power from windmills or something like that.”…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2007

Some global-warming related stories you may have missed: The EU’s rapidly rising transport emissions mean that they won’t meet their Kyoto targets “without additional…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/25/2007

Freeborn John (good name for a good blog) has a post up remembering the excesses of British labor unions before Thatcher. As he notes,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/23/2007

Tyler Cowen has a good piece in the New York Times today about American cultural exports. He makes one particularly imprtant point: “Culture is…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/23/2007

Steve McIntyre finds something fishy happening with NASA’s records of historical temperatures. This deserves investigation.

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/22/2007

A Guardian correspondent attempts to defend his admitted alarmism over global warming. In the comments, climate change economist Richard Tol dismantles his arguments: First,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/22/2007

There are signs that caring about the environment is becoming a little passe. This is from an uber-cool British gossip email: Having nearly as bad…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/21/2007

Have you got a minute for Greenpeace’s youth wing? [youtube]BY7875_rv1s[/youtube] I think he wants your lunch money as well.