The Open Market Blog

• By: Fran Smith
• 07/15/2008

Lots of good material in the World Trade Organization’s annual World Trade Report 2008. Released today, the report, “Trade in a Globalizing World,”…

• By: Alex Harris
• 07/15/2008

Pretty much everyone has gotten into the Google-Yahoo thicket. First, it was the companies themselves, by intentionally leaving time for regulators to kill the…

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/15/2008

Senator Charles Schumer recently triggered a massive bank failure by publicizing a letter claiming IndyMac Bank was on the verge of collapse.  That caused a run on…

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/15/2008

Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is now pushing a multibillion dollar bailout of the government-sponsored mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  But as the…

• By: Alex Harris
• 07/15/2008

There's an interesting discussion on the Technology Liberation Front, a popular blog for those interested in liberating technology from the hands of government, about…