The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/16/2011

Over at The American Spectator, I break down the debate over regulation's impact on the job market and propose one regulation that could create countless…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/10/2011

The next time someone complains about America's unregulated cowboy capitalism, you should ask them where such a thing might actually be found.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/09/2011

For some time now, the IRS has been flirting with what's called a return-free system. It's being touted as a time-saver. But it would also…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/04/2011

If you're in Helena, Montana, never tie a horse to a fire hydrant. It's against the law. Plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/03/2011

Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini debunks scare stories that chemicals in makeup and other household products cause cancer, neurological disorders, birth defects, and other health problems.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/31/2011

Over at RealClearMarkets, my colleague Wayne Crews and I argue that the law of demand holds. Hard to believe that's actually controversial, but that's Washington…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/28/2011

Yet another batch of regulatory bloopers: Motorists entering Tacoma, Washington, with criminal intent are required to telephone the chief of police. It is illegal to…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/27/2011

Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh debunks a flawed study that exaggerates the costs of undocumented immigration.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/25/2011

The people of Illinois don’t expect their government to be corrupt; they insist on it. That’s why nary an eyebrow was raised when it recently…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/24/2011

Art Carden has an excellent column about immigration, and not just because the first third is about The Simpsons.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/21/2011

It is illegal to slurp your soup in New Jersey restaurants, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/20/2011

CEI Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith, coauthor of the new CEI study "Free Trade without Apology," talks about the recently passed free trade agreements with Colombia,…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/14/2011

Here's a letter I recently sent to The Economist:…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/12/2011

This video is a quick primer on trade from someone who literally wrote the book about it.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/06/2011

Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews is author of the new CEI study, “The Other National Debt Crisis: How and Why Congress Must Quantify Regulation."…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/05/2011

Lawmakers need to do something about their do-something bias and try a deregulatory stimulus. Besides stimulating the economy, it would likely stimulate approval ratings, too.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/04/2011

First-generational suborbital crafts would reach 2,200 miles per hour, with an eventual goal of hitting 13,750 miles per hour. A trip from London to Sydney…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/30/2011

Massage parlors are illegal in well-named Horneytown, North Carolina, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/29/2011

In this morning's CEI Podcast, my colleague John Berlau predicted that the new price cap on debit card swipe fees would lead to the end…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/29/2011

Every time you use your debit card, the merchant has to pay a fee to the company that issued your card, usually about 1 percent…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/23/2011

In Seattle, Washington, the maximum length allowed for concealed weapons is 6 feet, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/22/2011

E-Verify is a program that checks the immigration status of new hires. The House is expected to vote on legislation that would make E-Verify mandatory…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/21/2011

Threats to freedoms even as trivial as planking should not be taken lying down.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/20/2011

This year's Federal Register is on pace to be 80,190 pages long. That's an average of 220 pages of fresh proposed rules, final rules, notices,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/16/2011

Flirting is illegal in Haddon, New Jersey, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/09/2011

Here’s another batch of regulatory bloopers: In Little Rock, Arkansas, it is illegal to honk your horn at a restaurant after 9:00 pm. It has…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/06/2011

I’ve argued for a long time that stimulus bills are poorly named; it implies that they stimulate the economy. “Spending bill” is a non-loaded term…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/02/2011

Burping in church is illegal in Nevada unless it's accidental, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/01/2011

The Department of Justice sued this week to stop the proposed AT&T-T-Mobile merger. Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia thinks this is a mistake.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/01/2011

If international trade barriers create wealth, why stop there? Every state should have its own trade barriers against every other state.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/31/2011

The philosopher Yogi Berra once said that “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Let’s apply his lesson to the proposed $39 billion…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 08/31/2011

This bill will result in a lot of unhappy nights at home for frustrated parents – and a lot less income for sitters who have…

Consumer Freedom