The Open Market Blog

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/17/2006

A couple of months back, US Congressman Patrick Kennedy drove his car into a security barricade near the Capitol building early one Thursday…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/16/2006

Thanks to Fred for passing along (by way of Don Boudreaux) the link to the EconTalk podcast for this week. Host Russ Roberts…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/12/2006

There’s a saying that the most revealing part of Academy Awards speeches is who isn’t thanked. There is often a similar truism about…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/12/2006

Cato’s David Boaz and AFF’s David Kirby have a fascinating new study out on trends among the voting public,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/11/2006

One of capitalism’s greatest virtues is the wide array of preferences it allows entrepreneurs to cater to—including the preferences of those who claim to disdain…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/11/2006

John Berlau, head of CEI’s Center for Entrepreneurship, hails the contributions of Nobel Prize in Economics recipient Edmund Phelps in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/11/2006

Tim Carney, former Warren Brookes fellow at CEI, takes a look at Mark Foley’s political contributions and finds he has been a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/06/2006

Reuters is finally catching up with CEI’s own Tim Carney. In a story today, Tim McLaughlin reports that political contributions by the biggest Wall…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/06/2006

In what has to be one of this week’s worst excuses for good news, the Congressional Budget Office announced that the federal budget…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/05/2006

But would Progressives against Progress endorse this great invention?…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/03/2006

Yesterday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued an executive order commanding businesses seeking federally-funded disaster relief administered by the City of New…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/29/2006

A Financial Times article today points out how difficult U.S. reform of its agricultural programs will be with the collapse of the WTO’s Doha…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/28/2006

All that stuff written about early admission college programs being discriminatory, here’s a new wrinkle on possible “early admission” to sports…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/27/2006

The Deutsche Oper in Berlin on Monday cancelled a production of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” because of fears of inciting Muslim protesters to violence. There was…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/27/2006

I don’t know how on in the world I end up on some loony email lists, but they’re at least good for the occasional chuckle.

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/27/2006

As often happens to successful ventures, Starbucks now faces critics who challenge the company’s leasing contracts, which specify competitors may not occupy the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/26/2006

Wouldn’t you think that a reader’s letter correcting factual errors in a newspaper article wouldn’t be edited to delete the principal correction? Well,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 09/25/2006

Government is often said to be bedeviled by “unintended consequences.” That doesn’t mean that the consequences cannot be foreseen. Two great examples…

• By: John Berlau
• 09/25/2006

An op-ed I wrote for last Sunday’s Washington Times talked about the battle over the interchange fees that banks and credit card companies charge to retailers. The…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/22/2006

You really have to give it to the U.S. Census Bureau. Even when they prove they’re pathologically unable to keep track of important computer…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2006

The National Indian Gaming Commission has recently been getting hot under the collar over a vital matter of native gambling policy –…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/19/2006

Following up on Fred’s post, here’s an even better headline: “Thai PM cancels U.N. speech after coup” ran the headline in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/19/2006

Today the Senate approved for the second time the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement, another in the now lengthy list of…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/19/2006

Hmm — the headline of today “Thailand has peaceful coup while PM at UN” suggests that we provide free airfare to the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2006

The Canadian government has finally passed a resolution to end the long-festering softwood lumber dispute with the U.S. While it’s not a perfect deal,…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/18/2006

The pope is under attack for pointing out that there is an a-religious element in traditional Islam. The pope was condemned and Islamic radicals responded…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/12/2006

Some decades ago, America having (correctly in my view) decided to reject the Law of the Seas Treaty — in part because it would…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/12/2006

Tonight in D.C., I will be moderating an America’s Future Foundation panel on Latin America in the age of Chavez. At issue: For the region’s…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/12/2006

With the US facing massive problems at home and abroad and Louisiana far from recovered from Katrina, it is nice to see that the…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/12/2006

With the US facing massive problems at home and abroad and Louisiana far from recovered from Katrina, it is nice to see that the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/12/2006

It looks as though the Doha round of WTO negotiations might finally be back on. So far, the U.S. team has been unwilling…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2006

One of the most important questions in the global warming debate is how modern changes in observed average temperatures compare to previous, documented…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2006

Having solved all other problems on their agenda, the House voted bravely last week (263-146) to ban the slaughter of horses for…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/07/2006

This Tuesday, September 12, I will be moderating an America’s Future Foundation panel on Latin America, here in D.C. At issue: Is the region turning…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/07/2006

It’s a thankless task keeping up with the Ozymandian agglomeration of bureaucracy that is the United Nations, so it’s merciful that our friends…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 09/06/2006

When it comes to regulatory policy, it seems that among the few voices of reason in the Europe today is an American. In today’s…

• 07/28/2006

Two hours and 12 minutes of subsidy-sucking. Those people wanted money for everything. Old programs and new programs and more money for all of them,…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/25/2006

Contrary to the network neutrality agenda presented in this Newsforge article by some anonymous individual going by the name of James Glass,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/06/2006

Joseph Farah over at WorldNetDaily makes the case against the Hank Paulson nomination for Treasury secretary, including a nice quote from R.J.