The Open Market Blog

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/30/2007

President Bush in Peoria, IL today gave one of two speeches scheduled on the economy (the next will be in NYC tomorrow). He addressed…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/30/2007

Are you an aspiring journalist for Reuters? If so, you need to know how to “bury the lede,” which is insider journo-talk for ignoring the…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/30/2007

There is a respectable, if (we feel) incorrect, case to be made for the idea of raising taxes to lower demand for an activity or…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/30/2007

I post this article, despite its breathless credulity about the imminence of a world beyond petroleum, because it reveals how Washington works. Bush and the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/29/2007

Over at Townhall.com, columnist Mary Katharine Ham comments on the premiere of the documentary Mine Your Own Business (the screening was co-sponsored…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 01/29/2007

Some global warming alarmists, including a few scientists, are complaining about the forthcoming Fourth Assessment Report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…