The Open Market Blog

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/12/2007

This week’s new episode of  the Fox animated series”King of the Hill” centers around a great — and hilarious — illustration of the public…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Ivan has an excellent take on the unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage (below), so I’ll limit myself to highlighting a recent…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Open Market readers may have seen this already, but I wanted to point out one interesting development from last night’s Grammy awards. The award for…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/12/2007

It shouldn’t be surprising. In Arizona, the state’s minimum wage hike, which went into effect last month, has led to teenagers being laid off,…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/12/2007

So, as I ponder the massive pressure group assault against passenger aviation and comparative per capita emissions (the city of Aspen having wonderfully shown us…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 02/12/2007

At a Capitol Hill policy briefing on February 9 for congressional staff and media, sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Dennis Avery of the Hudson…