The Open Market Blog

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/21/2008

In the Wall Street Journal, economist and former Carter Administration official Fred Bergsten chides Congressional leaders for blocking votes on trade agreements with friendly countries like…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/20/2008

According to their press release today, the Business Roundtable convened a policy meeting with CEOs of major companies and members of Congress to urge…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/20/2008

A divided D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 2-to-1 that paper money discriminates against the blind in violation of the Rehabilitation Act, in American…

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2008

All data are not treated equally on the Internet. There is only so much bandwidth to go around, so service providers…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/20/2008

David Brooks’ column today in the New York Times discusses the Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s positions on the bloated Farm Bill in…

• By: William Yeatman
• 05/20/2008

E&E News has an advance copy of Senate EPW…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/19/2008

Genetically-modified (“GM”) crops help the environment in many ways.  They reduce the need for pesticide use by engineering plants to be more blight-resistant.  And by reducing the amount of land…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/19/2008

Ala Don Boudreaux’s style at Cafehayek, below is a letter I sent to the Wall Street Journal last week: Jason…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/17/2008

Remember, the answer to our health care problems is to turn over health care decisions to the government.  Everyone will have access to health care. …

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/16/2008

This story reveals a startlingly obvious fact: immigrants help American intelligence agencies. “The intelligence agencies lack people who can speak the languages that are…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/16/2008

The new Farm Bill is a done deal — with both the House and the Senate passing the conference report with huge numbers:…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/16/2008

Tim Carney continues exposing the politically motivated pork that politicians dole out to buy support and campaign contributions. This week, in his DC Examiner…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/16/2008

This Wall Street Journal article about Ben Bernanke’s “Bubble Laboratory” is a fascinating look at economic bubbles and the changing nature of the…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 05/16/2008

I’m looking for examples of effective tech lobbyists. We’ve seen a lot of people moving from the Valley to the Hill lately. Microsoft has gone…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/16/2008

The Manhattan Institute study about immigrant assimilation attempts to measure civic values of immigrants. Participation in the naturalization process and military…

• By: Ryan Radia
• 05/16/2008

Gas prices have climbed to record highs for many reasons, including expensive oil…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/15/2008

Here’s a common question I hear when debating immigration and globalization: “If the world is becoming so much wealthier due to globalization, then…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/14/2008

The falsely praised THE FISCAL COST OF IMMIGRATION by Edwin Rubenstein doesn’t even mention “patents” or “entrepreneurship” anywhere in his study. This oversight…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/14/2008

These comments made yesterday have prompted me to write a series of blog posts. I only hope that zeezil or other commentators…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/14/2008

On the floor this morning, U.S. House of Representatives is considering the House-Senate conference report on the new Farm Bill, which the White…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/13/2008

The Manhattan Institute released a fantastic study called Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States. As the title suggests, it sets forth a clear…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/13/2008

Many of the problems affecting America’s modern pro-immigration movement were evident during the recent May Day rallies. Unless addressed, they will…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/13/2008

OK, so say we accept the premise that CO2 causes global warming, is there any case where energy use will be beneficial for the planet?…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/13/2008

Humane Society of the US just released another expose video on animal cruelty in the meat industry. They argue for more…

• By: Ryan Radia
• 05/12/2008

Wayne Crews and I have a new C:Spin discussing a proposed New York law aimed at protecting consumers…

• By: Ryan Radia
• 05/12/2008

Broadband Reports ran an opinion piece by Karl last week discussing the…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 05/12/2008

As most ethanol watchers know, the Renewable Fuels Association ran a full-page ad in The Hill magazine last week (May 6, 2008) titled: “Without ethanol, we’d be…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/12/2008

New Scientist recently mentioned a really cool method for cellulose based ethanol in their daily 60-second science podcast. During the second…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/12/2008

Great Britain’s vaunted National Health Service denied a 61-year-old woman a heart operation because she was too old.  Can’t waste the money! But then the…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 05/09/2008

Andrew Grossman of the Heritage Foundation recently released an important paper on a Senate…

• By: Christine Hall
• 05/09/2008

In today’s fluff news, CEI Warren Brookes journalism fellow Lene Johansen got a nice mention in the Washington Post (Amy Argetsinger’s Reliable Source) and…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/08/2008

From The Onion. (Yes, it’s ironic. )…

• By: William Yeatman
• 05/08/2008

The media is supposed to watch the government, but who monitors the media?…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/08/2008

This year’s corn crop is being planted much later than normal because of cool, wet weather in the…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/07/2008

President Bush has threatened to veto the bloated federal housing bill pushed by House leaders, saying it would reward special interests  As John Berlau has…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/07/2008

At Slate, Eric Posner explains why the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act is a bad idea as a basic concept.  The law nevertheless recently passed the Senate 95-to-0…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/07/2008

The Scientist has research grants as a theme this month, and the cover story tries to figure out what happens when…

• By: John Berlau
• 05/07/2008

Many commentators, such as CEI’s Hans Bader, have done a diligent job tracking the costs to taxpayers of the mortgage bailout scheduled to be…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/06/2008

Hans– Glad you posted about the bloated farm bill and how…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/06/2008

Say bye bye to more American manufacturing jobs.  The Washington Post editorialized today about sugar import quotas and price supports contained in the bloated federal…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/06/2008

Something is wrong with the FDA. They doubled their staffing at the beginning of the 1990’s, which lead to a temporary decrease in processing speed,…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/06/2008

As reports of food prices going through the ceiling are trickling in, some of the countries that traditionally reject plants bred with molecular plant breeding…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/06/2008

As a science writer with a liberal arts/ social studies background, I frequently run into brick walls where I do not have detailed enough knowledge…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/05/2008

Eli Lehrer has an editorial in today’s Washington Examiner about how ill-considered legislation to create federal “national catastrophe insurance” could lead to American taxpayers shelling…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/05/2008

Earlier, we wrote about how the economic “stimulus package” passed by Congress contained pork for left-wing groups like “La Raza” (Spanish for “the race”).  Now, House banking committee…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/05/2008

How long should it take to lift an import ban, when all the parties agree that there are no health safety or science issues involved?…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/05/2008

EU was supposed to have an authoritative discussion on plants bred with molecular plant breeding techniques (PMB’s) in May. The organization has been fined by…

• By: John Berlau
• 05/05/2008

Many commentators, such as Open Market’s Hans Bader, have done a diligent job tracking the costs to taxpayers of the mortgage bailout scheduled to be…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 05/05/2008

Many people I know are passionate about eradicating poverty. Out of all the ailments that humans suffer from, poverty is one of the cruelest and…