The Open Market Blog

• 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: Fran Smith
• 11/28/2006

Today, both the U.S. Treasury Secretary and the U.S. Trade Representative vowed that the Bush Administration would push hard on global and regional trade agreements…

• By: Fran Smith
• 11/22/2006

Democratic opponents of free trade — who also happen to be strong union supporters —told U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab on Tuesday they will…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/27/2006

Vietnam passed a final hurdle in its quest for membership in the World Trade Organization. According to the WTO, the “finishing touches to Vietnam’s…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/26/2006

President Bush just signed a bill to build a 700-mile fence on the 2000-mile U.S.border with Mexico to keep illegal immigrants out. Wow, that’s…

• 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: 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: 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: 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…