The Open Market Blog

• By: Adam Michel
• 07/05/2011

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) turns 76 today. This day should give pause to those who have been following the National Labor Relations…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/05/2011

Tennessee drivers can be fined $50 if someone else finds their bumper sticker offensive.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Gregory Conko
• 07/05/2011

In a letter to the Washington Post over this past weekend, a “food safety consultant” in northern Virginia named Thomas L.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Marc Scribner
• 07/05/2011

Late last week, the Department of Transportation announced it was launching a third round of TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery -- I feel…

Labor and Employment

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/05/2011

Last week, a divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which amended Michigan's constitution in 2006 to ban racial…

Labor and Employment

• By: Hans Bader
• 07/04/2011

In the Daily Caller, Chris Edwards has an interesting article about why government spending doesn’t “stimulate” the economy over the short-run or the long-run. Rather than…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 07/01/2011

Leaders of government employee unions must be feeling lonely these days. Across the country, Democratic state and local elected officials — traditional union allies —…

Labor and Employment

• By: Luke Pelican
• 07/01/2011

Back in April of this year Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley issued emergency regulations prohibiting Internet gambling at “cyber cafés” and “phone card businesses,”…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Nick DeLong
• 07/01/2011

Yesterday, Senate Republicans successfully blocked a Finance Committee meeting to consider free trade agreements (FTA) with Korea, Colombia, and Panama. The reason? President Obama…

Labor and Employment

• By: Matthew Melchiorre
• 07/01/2011

A California Democrat is seeking to expand the bureaucracy of the FCC in order to protect Americans from dropped calls. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.)…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/30/2011

One of the major developments in regulation over the last 30 years has been the rise of cost-benefit analysis. At first, agencies squirmed and resisted.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Matthew Melchiorre
• 06/30/2011

President Obama signed an executive order on June 15 to create SelectUSA, a new bureaucracy that acts as a one-stop-shop for government subsidies, in the…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 06/30/2011

Of the various hyperbolic leftist talking points against the recently enacted Wisconsin collective bargaining law, the “war on teachers” was easily the most shrill, dumb,…

Labor and Employment

• By: Marc Scribner
• 06/30/2011

Those who know me are aware that one of the two weird -- so I've been told -- policy issues I'm obsessed with is urban…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Will Tew
• 06/30/2011

You might’ve read about the unintended consequences of Georgia’s crackdown on undocumented workers. Well, the same thing is about to happen in Alabama.

Labor and Employment

• By: Will Tew
• 06/30/2011

Two days ago, the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog filed an anti-trust complaint with the FTC seeking an investigation of Facebook’s allegedly anti-competitive practices. These…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Adam Michel
• 06/29/2011

Late last night Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the California farm workers “card check” bill SB 104 for. The bill would have abolished workers right to…

Labor and Employment

• By: John Berlau
• 06/29/2011

Today, at around 3:30 pm, the Federal Reserve will vote on a final rule that will make price controls from the Durbin Amendment of Dodd-Frank…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Hans Bader
• 06/29/2011

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the individual mandate contained in the 2010 healthcare law by a 2-to-1 vote, claiming that…

Consumer Freedom