The Open Market Blog

• By: Michelle Minton
• 07/12/2011

I am no fan of ad hominem attacks, especially when it’s the President and his administration that deserve true criticism for their policies. So, when…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Marc Scribner
• 07/12/2011

CEI Vice President for Strategy, and director of CEI’s Center for Economic Freedom, Iain Murray has a new book, Stealing You Blind: How Government…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/12/2011

Publicly, President Obama has suggested a grand bargain to get America's staggering budget deficits under control, a deal in which Republicans would agree to…

Labor and Employment

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 07/12/2011

Yesterday, arch rent-seeker Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric CEO and Obama’s job czar, headlined the “Campaign for Free Enterprise” job summit. In typical fashion, Immelt had…

Labor and Employment

• By: Brian Bisek
• 07/11/2011

Energy Secretary Steven Chu admitted the paternalistic motivation for the effective ban on incandescent light-bulbs on Friday. Such honesty from a bureaucrat is somewhat…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/11/2011

Apparently British regulators don’t think their subjects are sponge-worthy.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/10/2011

Not content with just using American tax dollars to subsidize foreign "green jobs" that replaced U.S. jobs, the Obama administration used stimulus dollars…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/08/2011

Having solved the state’s fiscal crisis, California’s state legislature has moved on to more important issues, such as the legal definition of “hot dog.”…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/08/2011

The next someone tells you the economy is dangerously unregulated, refer them to this list:…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/07/2011

One federal study says federal regulations cost $1.75 trillion. Another says it's $62 billion. The difference is almost a factor of 30. Vice President for…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Marc Scribner
• 07/07/2011

Today, House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) and Highway and Transit Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-Tenn.) announced they would be introducing a $230-billion,…

Labor and Employment

• By: Matthew Melchiorre
• 07/07/2011

The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy released a study showing that the burden of government regulation disproportionately falls onto small businesses. Specifically, those with…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Marc Scribner
• 07/07/2011

Reason.tv has a new video up today, “D.C. Taxi Heist: How a new law would screw drivers and riders,” that explains why Washington’s proposed…

Labor and Employment

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/06/2011

Virginia seems likely to increase its child-support obligations on non-custodial parents, based on flawed methods of calculating child-rearing costs that overstate child-rearing costs. As I…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 07/06/2011

Openmarket.org The cozy relationship between liberal governors in Northeast states and Big Labor is becoming strained. Elected Democrats are realizing how strongly strings were attached…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/06/2011

A political party in Switzerland is seeking to ban Microsoft PowerPoint presentations in meetings.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Michelle Minton
• 07/05/2011

Hopefully, this Independence Day weekend you liberated some nice libations from their containers. As Founding Father Ben Franklin said, “there can’t be good living where…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Trey Kovacs
• 07/05/2011

The cozy relationship between liberal governors in Northeast states and Big Labor is becoming strained. Elected Democrats are realizing how strongly strings were attached to…

Labor and Employment

• By: Adam Michel
• 07/05/2011

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) turns 76 today. This day should give pause to those who have been following the National Labor Relations…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/05/2011

Tennessee drivers can be fined $50 if someone else finds their bumper sticker offensive.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Gregory Conko
• 07/05/2011

In a letter to the Washington Post over this past weekend, a “food safety consultant” in northern Virginia named Thomas L.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Marc Scribner
• 07/05/2011

Late last week, the Department of Transportation announced it was launching a third round of TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery -- I feel…

Labor and Employment

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/05/2011

Last week, a divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which amended Michigan's constitution in 2006 to ban racial…

Labor and Employment

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/04/2011

In the Daily Caller, Chris Edwards has an interesting article about why government spending doesn’t “stimulate” the economy over the short-run or the long-run. Rather than…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/01/2011

Leaders of government employee unions must be feeling lonely these days. Across the country, Democratic state and local elected officials — traditional union allies —…

Labor and Employment

• By: Luke Pelican
• 07/01/2011

Back in April of this year Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley issued emergency regulations prohibiting Internet gambling at “cyber cafés” and “phone card businesses,”…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Nick DeLong
• 07/01/2011

Yesterday, Senate Republicans successfully blocked a Finance Committee meeting to consider free trade agreements (FTA) with Korea, Colombia, and Panama. The reason? President Obama…

Labor and Employment

• By: Matthew Melchiorre
• 07/01/2011

A California Democrat is seeking to expand the bureaucracy of the FCC in order to protect Americans from dropped calls. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.)…

Consumer Freedom