The Open Market Blog

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/29/2007

Trade sanctions are a favorite foreign policy tool, but they don't have a very good record. It's hard to find a case where sanctions forced…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/29/2007

The Italian language version of my book, The Frankenfood Myth, co-written with CEI adjunct scholar and Hoover Institution fellow Henry I. Miller, was…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/26/2007

Okay, here’s a government action I can agree with: Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Dennis Wolff ordered 16 dairies in Pennsylvania to correct their milk…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/26/2007

In his now weekly DC Examiner Friday column, Tim Carney, CEI's 2005-2006 Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow, looks at just who exactly stands to most…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/26/2007

We thought President Reagan had killed it, but it keeps coming back — “it” being the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which Reagan…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/26/2007

It may be a forlorn hope that politicians of either party will ever be truly fiscally responsible, opposing spending programs that either are not authorized…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/26/2007

There is no McDonald's in Ethiopia. Perhaps if there was, 3000000 people would not die this year from malnutrition. In a world where poverty…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/26/2007

There's nothing new about partisans playing hardball when it comes to politics. But it is unusual when partisans attempt to jail their opponents. That apparently…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/26/2007

People often denounce the profit motive as harsh and unfeeling. Only volunteer or government offered aid is supposedly offered with the sincere desire to help.

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/25/2007

The Commission that selects administrative law judges (ALJs) in Washington, D.C. is leaning towards not reappointing Roy Pearson, the ALJ who brought a $54…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/25/2007

“Time to ditch Kyoto” says a commentary in Nature magazine’s October 25 issue. The article, written by Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner, points…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/25/2007

California wildfires have driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, caused death and destruction, and consumed more than 700 square miles of land.

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/25/2007

Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies has just released a study by Dan Griswold showing that increased trade is not responsible for a lower…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/25/2007

The new SCHIP bill set for a vote today, attempts to woo Republicans by prohibiting illegal immigrants from enrolling in the program. These changes don’t…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/24/2007

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/24/2007

The Wall Street Journal today carries an opinion piece by Stephen J. Rose (subscription required), a labor economist with the Progressive Policy Institute, titled…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/24/2007

The European Commission is taking Finland to court to try to force it to ban the sale of snus, a form of smokeless tobacco.

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/24/2007

MSN says that Merrill Lynch wrote down the value of its mortgage holdings by nearly $8 billion just in the past quarter, producing a…

• By: Ryan Radia
• 10/24/2007

Comcast is under fire again, this time for spoofing network packets to stop its users from uploading using peer-to-peer software. The technology Comcast…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/24/2007

Hans, excellent points about the folly of a government-organized bailout. Indeed the Dow had gone back to 14,000 the week before Paulson opened his…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/24/2007

I am sick and tired of waiting for my morning cup of coffee. At the joint I go to (which shall remain nameless) I can…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/24/2007

A New York Times article today poses the question of whether or not regulatory oversight has been too lax on the meat packaging industry.

• By: William Yeatman
• 10/24/2007

The developed world’s seemingly unquenchable thirst for miracle fuels made from food is pushing Russia further towards authoritarianism. The Financial Times today reports that…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/23/2007

The bloated farm bill making its way through the new Congress is not only a budget-buster. It is chock full of corporate welfare…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/23/2007

Don Boudreaux over at CafeHayek is outraged at an off-the-wall, gratuitous attack on Norman Borlaug in Alexander Cockburn’s latest diatribe appearing in the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/23/2007

London Times columnist Sarah Baxter offers an amusing anecdote that illustrates what happens when two incompatible, yet equally illiberal, ideologies collide. A glorious…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/23/2007

My article on organized labor’s response to the rise of private equity is now online at TCSDaily.  Private equity presents a unique challenge for…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/23/2007

300,000 people have fled their homes in California owing to out-of-control fires that have consumed more than 384 square miles of land. Those fires…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/23/2007

The use of torture overseas in enemy interrogations has attracted considerable opposition, for good reason. Military interrogators have recently criticized the practice, saying it is…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 10/23/2007

To the surprise of nobody, CBS canceled the bizarre murder mystery/musical/comedy Viva Laughlin after dismal ratings this past Sunday. Yes, the show was…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/23/2007

Alan Weisman, author of World Without Us describes what would happen to the planet if we weren’t on it in this interview. I would…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 10/22/2007

It’s always humorous to read stories of outrage during periods of rationing. The same people outraged by the water shortage in the Southeast don’t…

• By: Ryan Radia
• 10/22/2007

Facebook has “voluntarily” agreed to warn users about explicit images and redouble its efforts to combat obscenity as part of a settlement with…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/22/2007

The U.S. government is urging Turkey not to invade the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq after Turkish Kurdish separatists based on northern Iraq killed…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/22/2007

MSN and The Economist point out the deep flaws of the bail-out fund backed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson that would try to…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/22/2007

• 10/22/2007

Here’s further proof that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and their collectives are clueless. Embroiled in a silly debate over what species residing…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 10/22/2007

An engaging oped in yesterday’s Washington Post Outlook section is entitled “I Just Couldn’t Sacrifice My Son.” It’s about the state of public schooling…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 10/19/2007

You know things are bad when elected officials find it perfectly acceptable to call millions of Americans — including some of their own constituents —…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/19/2007

Normally I’m a fan of celebrity chef Mario Batali. His appearances on Iron Chef America are always entertaining, and he’s got a great sense…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 10/19/2007

In this post, I comment on Renewable Fuels Association President Bob Dinneen's opening statement, “America's Energy Future Is at a Crossroads,” at this week's “Cellulosic…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/19/2007

My earlier post about the incompetence of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which generally fails to detect explosive ingredients and fake bombs, was understated.

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/19/2007

Today's Financial Times has an -- unintentionally -- hilarious op ed by James Wilsdon of the think tank Demos, on how Muslim societies…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/19/2007

The administration of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has blocked a new power plant from being built, despite looming energy shortages, because, like virtually all…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/19/2007

Hugo Chavez’s insistences notwithstanding, not everyone in Venezuela is enamored of Che Guevara, as Australia’s Herald Sun reports: A GROUP of Venezuelans shattered…

• By: Julie Walsh
• 10/19/2007

In “Housing Construction Plunges” (Examiner, October 18, 2007), the author, Martin Crutsinger, correctly identifies the reasons for the current problems in the ever-important housing…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/19/2007

Neil Clark, who usually writes for the Guardian, on his blog, mocks what he calls another commenter’s “over the top” Che Guevara analogy. And…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/19/2007

Since the government took over aviation security since 9/11, security has actually gotten worse. Fake bombs usually pass undetected by the Transportation Security Administration…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/19/2007

The upholding of Bush’s SCHIP veto is no big victory for spending control. As reported in Time magazine online on Wednesday, Bush wasn’t exactly…

• 10/18/2007

Today, the House Natural Resources Committee is considering the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, sponsored by Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Christopher Shays (R-CT).