The Open Market Blog

• By: Michelle Minton
• 09/20/2007

The FDA wants your money—it needs your money if it is to continue poorly regulating the safety of drugs and killing citizens by stalling the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/20/2007

If you’re an Australian Labour Party supporter with more money than sense, it appears that the answer is yes. By the way, one wonders…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/20/2007

Wall Street Journal science columnist Robert Lee Hotz has a fascinating profile of epidemiologist John Ioannidis and his view that because of unacknowledged biases…

• By: Hans Bader
• 09/20/2007

The House has just passed a bill to increase the size and expense of the federal Food and Drug Administration. The bill would impose…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/20/2007

Both Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson cautioned today that steps to raise conforming loan limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie…

• By: Hans Bader
• 09/20/2007

The Santa Cruz, California, City Council is waiving its ban on smoking in public parks on September 29 so that marijuana can be smoked…