The Open Market Blog

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/03/2007

In a federal government beset by so many other problems, it’s practically charming to discover a little ol’ fashioned government waste that clocks in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/01/2007

In a story that reminds me of why I’ve never wanted to have children, the Wall Street Journal has a perversely fascinating story (sub.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/26/2007

CEI analysts appeared twice today on CNBC (so far), enlightening the financially astute and debating their fellow guests. First up, Editorial Director Ivan Osorio takes…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/21/2007

Fran – I certainly agree with your response to the promotional video for Naomi Klein’s new anti-capitalist manifesto – loco indeed. At one point…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/21/2007

Mining giant Barrick Gold has recently announced a fascinating challenge to would-be mining engineers of the world: if you can think up a new…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/21/2007

Fans of Sid Meier’s classic video game Civilization are framiliar to the challenge of designing an entire society, God-like from above. Fans of energy…

• 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: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2007

Like seemingly ever other magazine these days, Parenting is going green, with an essay contest in which parents describe changes they’ve made at home…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2007

Wayne has reminded us here at Open Market that today marks the observance of an important holiday, Talk Like a Pirate Day (if…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/17/2007

Curve-aceous economist Arthur Laffer (and his colleague Wayne Winegarden) have a new study out this week, estimating the costs to the U.S. economy…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/14/2007

Shocking allegations, from the New York Times by way of Editor & Publisher: In their regular “Freakanomics” column which will appear in this Sunday’s…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/13/2007

CEI analysts are frequent guests on TV news programs, and this week has been no exception. See below for a taste of recent interviews and…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2007

A lot of large mammals in Africa and Asia are currently threatened with extinction because the products into which they can be made into are…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2007

Wayne passes along a link today to a story about my favorite urban subculture of the moment: the freegans. Los Angeles Times staff writer…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/31/2007

Julie Satow of the New York Sun does a great job today profiling our very own Angela Logomasini’s new study on the costs…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/24/2007

Tech Maverick and Internet billionaire Mark Cuban has some choice words for would-be web entrepreneurs of today. Basically, don’t bother: The internet of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/21/2007

Jason and the rest of the Bureaucrash crew are making their way across the northeast part of our great continent this week, as part of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/06/2007

My good friend Wikipedia reminds me that today is the 47th anniversary of the expropriation of foreign assets by Fidel Castro’s communist government. The…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/20/2007

CNSNews.com Editor-in-Chief David Thibault died today, after a long fight with cancer. Many of us here at CEI have worked closely with the reporters and…