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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/15/2008

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/09/2008

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/09/2008

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/04/2008

I’ve got a couple posts up at TechLiberation.com today that are worth checking out. The most recent “…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/02/2008

Barack Obama will be nominating Eric Holder, former Clinton Administration deputy attorney general, to become the nation's highest ranking law enforcement official.  This has folks…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/20/2008

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has jurisdiction over media regulation, network neutrality, mergers, antitrust, trade, and a whole host of other issues that effect…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/19/2008

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/19/2008

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/18/2008

Working at a think tank you hear a lot of complaints about America’s left-leaning universities and professors and their hostility to free market ideas.  These…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/17/2008

The American auto industry is facing some tough times and, bailout or not, will eventually have to go through a difficult period of readjustment.

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/17/2008

You can visit GMFactsandFiction.com supposedly to get some facts about why GM ought to be given billions of your tax dollars. You'll find, however,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/17/2008

Hat tip to Iain Murray for pointing out this gem at The Onion: In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/14/2008

The G20 meet today at the White House to determine how to save the world’s economies.  Yet, these are the same folks who for years…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/14/2008

From AfricanLiberty.org: A detailed anylysis of events that led to the financial crisis and the half-hearted measures being proposed by governments to solve it.

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/13/2008

BusinessWeek quoted CEI’s own Sam Kazman in a recent piece, “Automakers’ $25 Billion Fast-Track Bailout,” about the auto industry’s recent run to Washington for…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/12/2008

Wayne Crews, OpenMarket.org contribuor and CEI Vice President for Policy, was cited yesterday in CFO Magazine: “While [Sen. Obama’s advisers are] busy trying to…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/10/2008

Greg Mankiw, a professor of economics at Harvard University, offers up some good advice for the new President-elect in the form of a post…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/10/2008

Bret Swanson, a senior fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation and friend of CEI had an excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/10/2008

CEI President Fred Smith and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, John Berlau, wrote a piece for the Washington Times addressing the international economic…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/07/2008

What will life be like under an Obama administration with even larger Democratic majorities in Congress?  CEI’s Vice President for Policy, Wayne Crews, spoke with…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/06/2008

"Yes We Can" is a good slogan.  It's short, it's simple, it's positive, and it makes people feel like part of something significant.  Its certainly…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/05/2008

I’ve started a new Facebook discussion on if/how advocates for free markets can work with the new administration.  Sen. Obama claims to respect free…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/05/2008

Last night after President-elect Obama had given his acceptance speech the punditry machine started up again.  Tom Brokaw, a veteran anchorman at NBC, surprisingly made…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/04/2008

The Hill reports today that: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday defended the so-called Fairness Doctrine in an interview on Fox News, saying, “I…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/04/2008

Since Bill Clinton ran in 1992 and MTV decided to “Rock the Vote” the youth vote has been something often talked about, but something that…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/03/2008

You can now donate to the Competitive Enterprise Institute here on the OpenMarket.org blog.  You can setup…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/31/2008

OpenMarket.org is trying to win the Blogger’s Choice Award for the best political blog.  Just a few dozen votes should do it.  If you’d…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/23/2008

Think the world’s economy can be managed by political leaders and experts?  The rate at which the world is changing and at which our knowledge…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/23/2008

Today the DC Examiner has a point/counterpoint today (the two articles are linked to seperately below) on the topic of trains.  Both sides are decidedly…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/22/2008

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• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/08/2008

From ACU's new issue of Battleline. ACU board member Joe Morris contributes an email from our new economic Czar:…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/07/2008

I can’t embed this because it keeps getting pulled. Thanks to Pat Dollard for hosting this video. This is what SNL should be doing, speaking…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/02/2008

View my page on Bureaucrash Social Bureaucrash, the activist arm of CEI, has started a new social network called, you guess it:…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/29/2008

LibertyWeek, CEI’s weekly podcast, covered the bailout and the financial meltdown on Wall Street in its last episode.  “Bailouts & Ballparks” features an interview…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/16/2008

Check out me and Richard Morrison doing another episode of CEI’s weekly podcast, Liberty Week.  This week we cover: The “meltdown” on Wall Street…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/12/2008

Rad Berky of NewsChannel 36 in Charlotte, North Carolina reports that fears of Hurricane Ike disrupting the supply of gasoline has…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 08/15/2008

Forbes magazine grabs a terrific quote from 10,000 Commandments, an annual report authored by Wayne Crews, CEI’s Vice President for Policy.  The report focuses…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 07/14/2008

The rights of homeowners to form associations is under attack in Maryland, where some residents believe that the state should forbid homeowners associations HOAs from…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 05/16/2008

I’m looking for examples of effective tech lobbyists. We’ve seen a lot of people moving from the Valley to the Hill lately. Microsoft has gone…