The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Radia
• 04/15/2008

With all the recent talk of net neutrality, it's easy to lose sight of the fundamental problem with broadband in America: the…

• By: Christine Hall
• 04/15/2008

I know, I know, the French are targets of easy ridicule here in the USA. But still. Seems French lawmakers passed a bill making it…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 04/15/2008

It’s really hard being Bill and Hillary Clinton.  They are good liberals, but have collected an incredible $109 million since leaving the office.  So…

• By: Ryan Radia
• 04/14/2008

I don’t visit ATMs much anymore. Instead, I mostly rely on credit cards. Credit cards are now accepted by all kinds of stores, from small,…

• By: Hans Bader
• 04/13/2008

In the Washington Post, David Ignatius writes about the long-run economic costs of mortgage bailouts, which infantilize voters.  Through bailouts, we are “creating a system of transfer…

• By: Hans Bader
• 04/13/2008

“Hundreds of thousands of people will be starving” soon, the International Monetary Fund says.  Government officials and food relief agencies quoted in the story…