The Open Market Blog

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/17/2007

At a press roundtable today, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative John Veroneau said that the U.S. would be renegotiating three completed Latin American free trade…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/17/2007

Living in a nation with a vibrant market economy and a predictable rule of law is generally considered a good thing. Lest we allow ourselves…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/17/2007

Our sophisticated friends, the Europeans, are desperate to do anything to meet their Kyoto targets, which they are currently speeding away from in the wrong…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/17/2007

On November 21, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to vacate and rehear its Abigail Alliance v. Von Eschenbach decision, which would have…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/17/2007

That is, of course, one of the classic lines of untruth. A spectacular example comes from the UK: [The] invention looked like being a…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/16/2007

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes observed in Towne v. Eisner (1918) that “a word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a…