The Open Market Blog

• By: John Berlau
• 02/20/2008

A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court’s decision in Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta was denounced by shareholder activists and much of the media as “anti-investor.” Why?…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/20/2008

In a speech today in Geneva, the World Trade Organization’s director-general Pascal Lamy noted the significant achievements of WTO members in opening up telecommunications…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/20/2008

The Supreme Court has just decided three cases ruling that federal law preempts contrary or conflicting state laws. It limited the ability to…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 02/20/2008

Al Gore had to take the two biggest spin words of 2007 and combine them into a really scary scenario at a UN meeting with…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 02/20/2008

Food prices are going up. Since the green revolution in the 1940s-1960s food prices have been going down, but now they are on an…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 02/20/2008

Two groups release reports about the same topic at the same time, their conclusions are diametrically opposed to each other. What is a poor reporter…