The Open Market Blog

• By: William Yeatman
• 05/08/2008

The media is supposed to watch the government, but who monitors the media?…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/08/2008

This year’s corn crop is being planted much later than normal because of cool, wet weather in the…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/07/2008

President Bush has threatened to veto the bloated federal housing bill pushed by House leaders, saying it would reward special interests  As John Berlau has…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/07/2008

At Slate, Eric Posner explains why the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act is a bad idea as a basic concept.  The law nevertheless recently passed the Senate 95-to-0…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/07/2008

The Scientist has research grants as a theme this month, and the cover story tries to figure out what happens when…

• By: John Berlau
• 05/07/2008

Many commentators, such as CEI’s Hans Bader, have done a diligent job tracking the costs to taxpayers of the mortgage bailout scheduled to be…