The Open Market Blog

• By: Lene Johansen
• 06/26/2008

I seem to remember from statistics class that anything less than 95 percent probability is junk science. This is an editorial from the most recent…

• By: Fran Smith
• 06/26/2008

American Express will be $4 billion richer, thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice and a 2004 antitrust suit against Visa and MasterCard. According…

• By: Hans Bader
• 06/25/2008

The Wall Street Journal explains how federal and state regulations block competition with the rating agencies that fueled the mortgage crisis by giving ridiculously rosey ratings…

• By: Alex Harris
• 06/25/2008

For a while now, the UK has had a fairly extensive network of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras recording its citizens’ movements in the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 06/25/2008

Environmentalists are ecstatic over the state of Florida’s announced purchase from United States Sugar of a vast tract of land —…

• By: Alex Harris
• 06/25/2008

Major ISP Charter Communications is indefinitely suspending its use of NebuAd, a tool that would use customers’ browsing habits to send them better-targeted…