The Open Market Blog

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/11/2007

Subsidies for biofuels are leading to food price inflation and will cause environmental damage, so says the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in…

• By: William Yeatman
• 09/11/2007

Business leaders in the land of the rising sun have gone kamikaze on energy efficiency. According to a front page story in the Wall Street…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 09/10/2007

In the weekend Wall Street Journal, Rebecca Smith reports that, As shareholders of TXU Corp. approved a $32 billion buyout, the private-equity buyers' pledge…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 09/10/2007

Hans, I have three comments about what you say here. First, on paratransit. The paratransit service (MetroAccess) in this area is already run by…

• By: Hans Bader
• 09/10/2007

The New York Times has a story today on how a woman with breast cancer is dying in agony without any pain relief because…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 09/10/2007

Canadian politicians are worried. News reports say that several politicians had recently given some of their blood to the greens, who examined it for…