The Open Market Blog

• 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.