The Open Market Blog

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/30/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "IP Policy Is About Consumers, Not Geek v. Artist Pissing Matches" "You can't credibly say that someone who wanted…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/29/2012

OPINION SARAH GOODYEAR: "Chicago's Ambitious Plan For Zero Traffic Fatalities" "What would happen if a United States city decided it was going…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/25/2012

OPINION NATE ANDERSON: "Senator Admits: SOPA "Really Did Pose Some Risk to the Internet" "Today, PIPA co-sponsor Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) admitted…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/23/2012

OPINION ARNOLD KLING: "Why We Need Principles-Based Regulation" "When we think of regulation, we think of specific rules that spell out the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/21/2012

OPINION GEORGE WILL: "When Government Is the Looter" "Russ Caswell, 68, is bewildered: 'What country are we in?' He and his wife,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/18/2012

OPINION HARLAN J. PROTASS: "The Criminal Crackdown on Insider Trading Is Stupid" "Pouring money into criminal insider trading cases is a huge…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/17/2012

OPINION LEONARD KILROY and HARRIS KENNY: "States and Cities Going Private With Infrastructure Investment" "As public debts grow, cities and states simultaneously…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/16/2012

OPINION FARHAD MANJOO: "What Does Facebook’s $100 Billion IPO Mean for You?" "When Facebook filed for its initial public offering in February,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/14/2012

OPINION LAWRENCE HUNTER: "Imagining A Cruel World Where Everyone's 'Too Something' To Fail" "Imagine a world where the rich and the poor…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/11/2012

OPINION WILL OREMUS: "Deep Space Mine" "Last month, a group of starry-eyed billionaires—including Googlers Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and director James…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/10/2012

OPINION MIKE MASNICK: "Congress: The TSA Is Wasting Hundreds of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars" "The House Oversight Committee has come out with…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/09/2012

The Cato Institute is hosting a policy discussion at noon today on “Federal Cyber-Security Regulation: Critical Safety Measure, or Privacy Nightmare?” The event features…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/09/2012

OPINION ALEX TABARROK: "The Growth of Justice" "Justice is a key ingredient for economic growth. People will not invest if they fear…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/08/2012

OPINION FUTURE TENSE: "Tumblr and Facebook Reps Discuss 'The Business of the Internet'" (VIDEO) "[Tumblr Vice President Andrew] McLaughlin (whose résumé also…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/07/2012

OPINION MICHELLE NIJHUIS: "Should Scientists Be More Forthcoming About Their Flaws?" "Scientists practice a form of 'secret anarchy,' [Michael Brooks] says, a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/04/2012

OPINION VIRGINIA POSTREL: "Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Feel-Good Waste of Money" "Recycling old glasses makes people feel generous and thrifty. They believe…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/03/2012

OPINION WINSLOW WHEELER: "The Jet That Ate the Pentagon" "Claimed to be near invisible to radar and able to dominate any future…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 05/02/2012

OPINION ADAM COHEN: "Can Smokers Be Banned From Government Jobs?" "If you are a smoker, you may want to rethink that plan…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/30/2012

OPINION JO-ANN ARMAO: "The Big Easy's School Revolution" "Most of the buzz about the city’s reforms focuses on the banishment of organized…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/27/2012

OPINION HENRY BLODGET: "Don't Mean To Be Clueless, But Why Does The U.S. Have A Law Against Bribing Foreign Governments?" "Walmart's in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/26/2012

OPINION DAVID WEIGEL: "Inside the Worst Congress Ever" "I was halfway through Do Not Ask What Good We Do when I felt moved…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/24/2012

OPINION THE ECONOMIST: "What Makes Heroic Strife'" "[I]n the war-games rooms and think-tanks of the rich world’s military powers, bright minds are…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/23/2012

OPINION STEVEN CHAPMAN: "Killing the Dream" "They sound like a group custom-built and poll-tested to appeal to Republicans: hardworking youngsters with a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/20/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/20/2012

OPINION MATTHEW PHILLIPS: "Why Obama's Crackdown on Oil Speculators Won't Work" "Those pesky oil speculators. If only we could rein them in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/19/2012

OPINION JAMES HAMILTON: "A Ban on Oil Speculation?" "Here I have a modest suggestion. If Representative Kennedy knows a way to go…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/18/2012

OPINION JACOB SULLUM: "From Hackers to Slackers" "If you are reading this column online at work, you may be committing a federal…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/17/2012

OPINION CHRIS EDWARDS: "The Tax Code Mess" "In addition to being complex, the federal tax code is constantly changing. The Taxpayer Advocate…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/16/2012

OPINION CHRISTOPHER J. CONOVER: “Death By Taxes” “A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has concluded that there’s…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/13/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/13/2012

OPINION MEGAN MCARDLE: "Why You Can't Get a Taxi" "Where I live in Washington, D.C., about a mile and a half north…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/12/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "Who Cares About E-Book Price Fixing?" "It looks like the DOJ is going to pull the trigger on a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/10/2012

OPINION RICHARD EPSTEIN: “My Primer for Obama” “In dealing with the proposed budget of Representative Paul Ryan, the president sought to…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/09/2012

OPINION L. GORDON CROVITZ: "Complexity Is Bad For Your Health" "The Supreme Court has long had the role of declaring what the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 04/06/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/30/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/30/2012

OPINION ERIC CRAMPTON: "Copyright Stagnation" "Paul Heald demonstrated the effect of the stagnant US copyright wall in seminar at Canterbury last week.

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/29/2012

OPINION JIM MAXEINER: "What Germany Can Teach the U.S.: Rewrite Old Laws" "In 1955, after ten years of American occupation and 80…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/28/2012

OPINION RICH LOWRY: "Madison's Last Stand" "The shade of James Madison hovers over the Obamacare argument at the Supreme Court. It is…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/27/2012

OPINION JEB BUSH: "Have You Ever Tried to Eliminate a State-Run Commission?" "The accretion of old law is a problem across the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/26/2012

OPINION SHIKHA DALMIA: "Obamacare's Terrible Twos" "[T]he court has given Congress expansive powers to regulate economic activity under the Commerce Clause that…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/23/2012

OPINION GUY BENSON: "Obama: Solyndra Was Not Our Program, You Know" "Obama professes to be heartbroken over the fate of the 1,100…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/22/2012

OPINION CHRIS REED: "Solyndra Times Seven: Why California's High Speed Rail Project Is an Even Greater Waste of Federal Tax Dollars" "The…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/21/2012

OPINION DAVID HILL: "Will Obama Take a Bite of Apple?" "Whenever products and services become ubiquitous, Democratic consumers and voters start treating…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/20/2012

OPINION TIMOTHY B. LEE: "Samsung and RIM Sued For Infringing LOL-Worthy Emoticon Patent" "In an apparent quest to make the patent system…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/19/2012

OPINION EMILY BAZELON: "Dharun Ravi Found Guilty" "Because Tyler Clementi took his own life a few days after Ravi glimpsed him on…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/16/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/16/2012

OPINION ELSPETH REEVE: "Could You Really Get Rid of Porn on the Internet?" "Rick Santorum is the latest politician to promise to…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/15/2012

OPINION WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL: "Institute For Justice Lawsuit Challenges IRS Power Grab" "Last year, the federal tax agency issued a new rule…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/14/2012

OPINION BRADLEY R. SCHILLER: "California, a Bad Bet for Business" "Californians like to dismiss such assessments of the Golden State and instead…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/13/2012

OPINION CATHY YOUNG: "A Pox on Both Houses in the Contraception Controversy" "Sometimes, I catch a lot of flak for taking a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/12/2012

OPINION LAWRENCE HUNTER: "Justice Antonin Scalia: Man on the Obamacare Margin" "Hayek explained why conservatives are so lame at protecting individual rights:…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/09/2012

OPINION RYAN CALO: "Drones, Dogs, and the Future of Privacy" "Just in case you haven’t seen the memo: Drones are coming to…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/08/2012

OPINION TIMOTHY B. LEE: "The Obama Administration Wants Warrantless Access to Cell Phone Locational Data" "A Maryland court last week ruled that…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/07/2012

OPINION TYLER COWEN: "Matt Yglesias' New Book" "If people were the size of ants, without encountering any absurdities of physics or biology,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/06/2012

OPINION JOHN VILLASENOR: "Can the Government Force Suspects to Decrypt Incriminating Files?" "What happens when the government’s desire to access a suspect’s…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/05/2012

OPINION ERIN GLORIA RYAN: "Unbelievably Stupid Law Would Declare Single Parenthood Child Abuse" "Senate Bill 507 is sponsored by Republican Senator Glenn…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/02/2012

OPINION DAVID HENDERSON: "Tear Down These Walls" "Something has switched for me and I think a large part of the reason is…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/01/2012

OPINION MIKE MASNICK: "NSA Power Grab: New Legislation Would Give It Broad Powers To Spy On 'Critical' Private Networks" "Last week, in talking…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/29/2012

OPINION LAWRENCE LINDSEY: "Geithner and the 'Privilege' of Being American" "Last week Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that the "most fortunate Americans"…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/28/2012

OPINION DAVID CARR: "Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth" "Last Wednesday in the White House briefing room, the administration’s press secretary, Jay…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/27/2012

OPINION RUSS ROBERTS: "The Insanity of Health Insurance" "It is insane that we get our health care from our employers. That happens…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/24/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/24/2012

OPINION JACOB SULLUM: "Distorting the Economy is the Whole Point" "Distorting the economy is not, as NPR suggests, an unwanted side effect…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/22/2012

OPINION MORT ZUCKERMAN: "The Cost of Obama's Keystone XL Dithering" "The original Keystone pipeline won approval after two years and is operational.

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/21/2012

OPINION RAMESH PONNURU: "U.S. Limits on Government Can't Work Everywhere" "Although the drafters and ratifiers of the U.S. Constitution sought a stronger…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/17/2012

OPINION KATHERINE MANGU-WARD: "Free-Range Parenting: You're Going to Go to Jail. Maybe." "Hey look, here's a big omnibus article by David Pimentel…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/16/2012

OPINION GLENN G. LAMMI: "Court Should Dismiss Privacy Group's Suit vs. FTC Over Google Buzz Settlement" "On Friday,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/15/2012

OPINION MICHAEL BARONE: "A Failure of Imagination Put Metro on Wrong Track" "Believers in central planning should take a look at Washington's…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/14/2012

OPINION DAVID WEIGEL: "Why Super PACs Are Good for Democracy" "It’s getting harder to argue that super PACs have horribly degraded our…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/13/2012

OPINION SHIKA DALMIA: "GM Profits, But Taxpayers Are Still On the Hook" "Three years after being rescued by a taxpayer bailout, …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/10/2012

OPINION DON BOUDREAUX: "The Twistocracy" "[U.S. Senator Kirsten] Gillibrand (D-NY) said: 'The power to decide whether or not to use contraception lies…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/08/2012

OPINION MARK BUCHANAN: "A Bar May Be The Place to Understand Markets" "Economists have wondered for decades why markets have 'excess volatility'…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/07/2012

OPINION SEN. ROB PORTMAN and SEN. MARK PRYOR: "A Push for Smart Regulations" "The Regulatory Accountability Act, which we introduced along with…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/06/2012

OPINION STEVEN HORWITZ: "Creating Jobs Versus Creating Value" "Picking on New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is one of the largest participation sports on…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/03/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/03/2012

OPINION ADAM SNEED: "The Wrong Way to Monitor Internet Cafes for Terrorists" "If you’ve ever cared about privacy while using the Internet…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/01/2012

OPINION JAMES PERON: "Why Libertarians Need to Talk to the Left and How to Do It" "A local libertarian party group once…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/31/2012

OPINION SANJIV AHUJA: "Lost in D.C.'s Iron Triangle" "LightSquared, encouraged by the Federal Communications Commission under both the Obama and Bush administrations,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/30/2012

OPINION MARK P. MILLS & JULIO M. OTTINO: "The Coming Tech-Led Boom" "In January 1912, the United States emerged from a two-year…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/27/2012

  CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/27/2012

OPINION ALEX TABARROK: "The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State" "We like to think of ourselves as an innovation nation, but our…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/26/2012

OPINION MEGAN MCARDLE: "The President's Nostalgianomics" "Obama, stymied by an economy that's still pretty weak, and an opposition that has no more…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/25/2012

OPINION REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: "Familiar Rhetoric, Failed Record (VIDEO)" CONOR FRIEDERSDORF: "The State of the Union: What Obama Doesn't Get…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/24/2012

OPINION JORDAN WEISSMANN: "Why the United States Will Never, Ever Build the iPhone" "This weekend, The New York Times published a long exploration of the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/23/2012

OPINION BILL CLINTON: "Charity Needs Capitalism to Solve the World's Problems" "Charity alone will not solve the world’s problems. …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/20/2012

  CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/20/2012

OPINION PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG: "Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists" "The price of gas is a puzzle. Monitor the average…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/19/2012

OPINION DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH: "Jobs Are Created and Destroyed Every Year" "There's no specific, reliable number for the jobs that Mitt Romney supposedly…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/18/2012

OPINION TIM CARNEY: "The False Frame of Regulation vs. Inequality" "I think when people say the economy is rigged for the rich,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/17/2012

OPINION RALPH BRISTOL: "Capitalism Good, Too Many Capitalists Bad" "One of the biggest flaws of too many capitalists emerges when they have…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/13/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/13/2012

OPINION PETER BOETTKE: "Austrian Economics" "Analytically, the biggest difference between the Austrians and their mainstream brethren is a focus on processes of…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/11/2012

OPINION DAHLIA LITHWICK: "Ifs, Ands, or Butts: The Supreme Court Gets the Full Monty Treatment" "Waxman patiently explains to the rapt justices…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/10/2012

OPINION SALON DEBATE: "What is Plagiarism?" "The last weeks of 2011 were littered with …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/09/2012

OPINION ANDOR JAKAB: "This is Why I Don't Give You a Job" "I wouldn't hire a woman. The reason is very simple: women give…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/06/2012

OPINION GREG LUKIANOFF: "Clear Campus Rules Needed on 'Harassment'" "Overly broad harassment codes remain the weapon of choice on campus to punish…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/05/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "People Want Transit Accessible Housing, But Will They Be Able to Afford It?" " The gigantic premiums in the inner…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/04/2012

OPINION DAVE WEIGEL: "Rickrolled: Three Lessons From Iowa" "Lesson Two: Money is speech, which means people can ignore it.