The Open Market Blog

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/06/2008

Something is wrong with the FDA. They doubled their staffing at the beginning of the 1990’s, which lead to a temporary decrease in processing speed,…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/06/2008

As reports of food prices going through the ceiling are trickling in, some of the countries that traditionally reject plants bred with molecular plant breeding…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/06/2008

As a science writer with a liberal arts/ social studies background, I frequently run into brick walls where I do not have detailed enough knowledge…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/05/2008

Eli Lehrer has an editorial in today’s Washington Examiner about how ill-considered legislation to create federal “national catastrophe insurance” could lead to American taxpayers shelling…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/05/2008

Earlier, we wrote about how the economic “stimulus package” passed by Congress contained pork for left-wing groups like “La Raza” (Spanish for “the race”).  Now, House banking committee…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/05/2008

How long should it take to lift an import ban, when all the parties agree that there are no health safety or science issues involved?…