The Open Market Blog

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/24/2007

Even in the midst of a budget deficit, Virginia governor Tim Kaine is pushing for a massive and costly expansion of state-funded preschool programs. A…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/24/2007

Today in his Washington Examiner column, our friend and former Brookes Fellow Tim Carney highlights yet another way in which rent-seeking businesses are lining…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/24/2007

Today’s Inside Higher Ed reports on a very interesting study about college costs and drop out rates. According to the study (which costs $5.00)…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/23/2007

I came home Thursday to find an Light Emitting Diode (LED) light bulb in my mailbox. I had ordered it on ebay and paid…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/23/2007

The food fascists are every where. It’s one thing for New York City to ban trans fats from city restaurants. But for the Great Indiana…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/23/2007

Is nothing sacred? Congress passes an energy bill in the name of fighting global warming, and what it best accomplishes is passing pork off to…