The Open Market Blog

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/28/2008

The White House capitulated on the mortgage bailout bill, which now will become law, thanks to the “gullible” Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, who got Bush to…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 07/28/2008

Remember stories about the horrors of the American medical system?  Operations performed on the wrong leg and such?  Guess what:  it’s also a problem in…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 07/26/2008

The Law of the Sea Treaty just won’t go away.  Ronald Reagan attempted to kill it a quarter century ago.  But it’s still with us. …

• By: Doug Bandow
• 07/26/2008

Do you like Peking Duck?  Well, don’t count on getting it in Europe.  Restaurants are being shut down for failing to meet European Union rules,…

• By: John Berlau
• 07/26/2008

The new book America’s Health Care Crisis Solved has been praised as providing a detailed, free-market solution for healthcare’s future. This it does, but…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 07/26/2008

No one ever wants to get cancer, but if you do get it, America is the place to get treated.  As Sen. Ted Kennedy doubtless…