The Open Market Blog

• By: Alex Harris
• 07/14/2008

According to tech news site ArsTechnica, Companies looking for a competitive edge over their rivals have in recent years been making use of a…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 07/14/2008

The rights of homeowners to form associations is under attack in Maryland, where some residents believe that the state should forbid homeowners associations HOAs from…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 07/14/2008

The White House announced today that President Bush will lift the executive ban on oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf. This action in…

• By: Alex Harris
• 07/14/2008

I reported earlier on the failings of the Universal Service Fund. Now, the convoluted transfer scheme has a new critic: the GAO. The…

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/14/2008

Following in the wake of Friday’s massive bank failure, and the Senate’s passage of an economically destructive and pork-filled mortgage bailout bill that…

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/14/2008

The Washington Examiner today pointed out on page 17 that thanks to advances in drilling technology, it’s now far safer to drill for oil off…