The Open Market Blog

• 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…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/05/2008

Not only has the planet not warmed over the last decade, but new peer-reviewed research suggests that it might not warm over the coming decade. …

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/05/2008

Airplanes emit CO2.  Ergo people shouldn’t fly.  To do otherwise is, well, sinful in the view of some people  Reports ABC News: Moral authorities…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/02/2008

Should you be able to sue your employer because your co-workers listen to raunchy radio programs?  The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Reeves v. C.H.

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/02/2008

Leave it to a Brit who used to be a communist to support relying on the profit motive to improve health care.  Writing in…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/02/2008

A story in the Wall Street Journal suggests it is time to once again eat kangaroos, to protect the environment, and cope with Kangaroo overpopulation…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 05/02/2008

By now, of course, everyone has heard the story of Elisabeth Fritzl and the seven siblings/children she gave birth to while her father Joseph…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 05/02/2008

Iain, I believe you that congestion pricing has not worked in reducing traffic during London’s rush hour. Here’s my question: how can Virginia’s just-started…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/02/2008

You don’t have to be a free market ideologue to realize that markets are the best means of saving endangered plants and animals.  Reports…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/02/2008

Who would have thought it?  Gas prices go up, and the demand for smaller cars rises.  Some cynics might even think that arbitrary regulations like…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/02/2008

Politicians are always looking for the easy source of money.  New Jersey legislators hoping to pay for health care want to tax fast food. …

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/01/2008

Almost five years ago, I argued that London’s Congestion Charge was merely a wealth transfer from London commuters to the administrators of the charge.

• By: Hans Bader
• 04/30/2008

The Fed has cut interest rates again, reducing its key rate to 2 percent — a real interest rate of less than zero, after taking into account…

• By: Iain Murray
• 04/30/2008

Steven Dubner asks whether children are responsible for the recent explosion of environmental concern. He’s got a point. As well as the decidedly non-secular…

• By: Hans Bader
• 04/30/2008

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the federal law (PLCAA) limiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers over acts committed by criminals with guns,…