The Open Market Blog

• By: Doug Bandow
• 06/28/2008

The line “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you” has long been a comic favorite. As well it should. The Daily…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 06/28/2008

The U.S. is still the largest and most productive economy, but the warning signs are there. The latest is that America is losing its lead…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 06/28/2008

All you have to do is read British publications to see what the mess otherwise called the National Health Service.  Yet the NHS is a…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 06/27/2008

American politicians are busy talking about how to socialize the U.S. health care system.  But in Canada the father of the nationalized system is prepared…

• By: Alex Harris
• 06/27/2008

Today, Bill Gates left Microsoft. As Cord Blomquist pointed out, Bill Gates has created more value for the world in his time at…

• By: Hans Bader
• 06/27/2008

Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, the crooked trial lawyer who helped orchestrate multibillion dollar settlements between the States and the big tobacco companies, was sentenced today to…