The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/16/2013

61 new regulations, from banned avocados to sweet corn insurance.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/09/2013

58 new regulations, from foreign tax credits to growing dates in Riverside County, California.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/05/2013

Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton puts a scary new study about energy drinks and children into its proper, non-scary context.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/03/2013

81 new regulations, from “shared responsibility payments” to Segelflugzeugbau sailplanes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/29/2013

Have a listen here. In 2010, the FCC issued regulations to implement net neutrality. The resulting legal challenge is about to hit the D.C.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/26/2013

80 new regulations, from hunting migratory birds to grading avocados.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/19/2013

71 new regulations, from D-Day reenactments to bio-fuel usage.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/15/2013

Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner thinks the charges are overblown, and has ideas of his own for increasing competition.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/12/2013

83 new regulations, from sweet cherries to air.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/05/2013

82 new regulations, dairy import licenses to information sharing.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/31/2013

The USDA is temporarily suspending its magician's rabbit-license regulations "in order that we may undertake a review of their requirements."…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/31/2013

Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews talks about the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which is expected to pass the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/31/2013

The bill would add some oversight to a regulatory process that has far too little of it.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/29/2013

80 new regulations, from turtle-killing to felon financiers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/25/2013

The United Auto Workers union is campaigning to organize a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Senior Fellow Matt Patterson talks about his recent trip to…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/22/2013

68 new regulations, from Topeka shiners to room air conditioners.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/19/2013

A new cooling fan should arrive in the next two weeks. Until then, the super stop will be a bus stop like any other, unless…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/17/2013

Marty Hahne has put on children's magic shows for almost 30 years. USDA regulations require both a license and a written disaster plan for his…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/15/2013

84 new regulations, from apartment building energy usage to when truckers have lunch.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/11/2013

Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith breaks down the controversy surrounding this year's farm bill.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/09/2013

Over at the American Spectator, I show why an unintentional and unavoidable side effect of regulation is inflation:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/08/2013

78 new regulations, from energy efficiency standards for imports to the California Desert Grape Administrative Committee.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/02/2013

A new study by Warren Brookes Fellow Matthew Melchiorre finds that only 4 European countries out of 27 have actually cut taxes and spending.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/01/2013

80 new regulations, from school lunches to the legal definition of “ski area.”…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/26/2013

Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner discusses the TSA's lack of transparency and the scanners' ineffectiveness in deterring terrorism.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/24/2013

96 new regulations, from fireworks shows near water to handling FOIA requests.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/17/2013

93 new regulations, from tanning taxes to wine labels.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/10/2013

72 new regulations, from federal pecan insurance to avoiding collisions at sea.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/07/2013

June 7 is National Donut Day. General Counsel Sam Kazman is urging Americans to eat not one but two donuts—one for themselves, and one for…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/06/2013

Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner discusses a new CEI study arguing that regulations make passenger train cars unnecessarily expensive.

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/05/2013

Over at The American Spectator, Wayne Crews and I marvel at how much the regulatory state has grown over the last twenty years. We also…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/03/2013

George Will's latest column highlights the main findings of Ten Thousand Commandments.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/03/2013

61 new regulations, from Cotton taxes to endangered Hawaiian plants.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/30/2013

The Food and Drug Administration recently announced plans to investigate, and possibly regulate, caffeine consumption. Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton prefers separation of…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/30/2013

In today’s Investor’s Business Daily, Wayne Crews and I make the case that one of the biggest obstacles to regulatory reform is a lack of…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/28/2013

The cost of government is far more than it taxes and spends. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s editorial board agrees, as they opined yesterday:…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/28/2013

68 new regulations, from Potato Administrative Committees to Segelflugzeugbau sailplanes.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/23/2013

I recently posted that new EU regulations would require restaurants to use factory packaged and sealed bottles of olive oil. This would put small…

Regulatory Reform