The Open Market Blog

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 08/27/2007

We see that Al Gore et al plan to commit upwards of $100 million to persuade the public to take the hit…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/27/2007

The Wall Street Journal‘s John Fund highlights a form of local- and state-government level protectionism that often passes under the radar: professional licensing requirements.

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/27/2007

The Washington Post reports that the man responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre had mental problems known to his high school, but that the…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 08/27/2007

This story makes clear that the Bush administration's climate change team -- for all of their faults, not least of which is a…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/27/2007

Taiwan’s Acer has announced plans to acquire computer-maker Gateway. In its heyday during the 1990s, Gateway ran brash, folksy ads in just about every…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/26/2007

Venezuelan state Boss Hugo offers a response to rumors that his pal Fidel is on his way to meet Satan, which should prove…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/26/2007

For some people government is a means to an end, a tool to achieve certain ends. With them real debate is possible. While one can,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/25/2007

The Miami Herals pays its respects upon the passing of an American cultural institution, the South Florida-based Weekly World News. Without the WWN, a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/25/2007

The new issue of The Economist features a letter with a quote worth citing: SIR — I attended a performance by the British songwriters…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/24/2007

Tech Maverick and Internet billionaire Mark Cuban has some choice words for would-be web entrepreneurs of today. Basically, don’t bother: The internet of…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 08/24/2007

I recently attended the PFF Aspen Summitt which served to both educate and inspire me, so expect a flurry of blog posts over the next…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 08/24/2007

Compliments of Benny Peiser’s invaluable CCNet e-mails (sign up here), here are two quotes that together sum up one of the major obstacles to…

• By: Hans Bader
• 08/24/2007

Even in the midst of a budget deficit, Virginia governor Tim Kaine is pushing for a massive and costly expansion of state-funded preschool programs. A…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/24/2007

Today in his Washington Examiner column, our friend and former Brookes Fellow Tim Carney highlights yet another way in which rent-seeking businesses are lining…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/24/2007

Today’s Inside Higher Ed reports on a very interesting study about college costs and drop out rates. According to the study (which costs $5.00)…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/23/2007

I came home Thursday to find an Light Emitting Diode (LED) light bulb in my mailbox. I had ordered it on ebay and paid…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/23/2007

The food fascists are every where. It’s one thing for New York City to ban trans fats from city restaurants. But for the Great Indiana…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/23/2007

Is nothing sacred? Congress passes an energy bill in the name of fighting global warming, and what it best accomplishes is passing pork off to…

• By: Julie Walsh
• 08/23/2007

Marc Morano has compiled a great list of the latest peer-reviewed scientific studies and quotes from scientists against alarmism. I have composed an executive…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 08/23/2007

According to a story in today’s Greenwire, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development has conducted a survey showing that people in the real…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/23/2007

A disturbing development in the UK brings to mind CEI’s own dystopian video, from this year’s annual dinner. (Thanks to Megan McLaughlin for the…

• By: Christine Hall
• 08/23/2007

In the name of protecting teens from online predators, the nation's "worst attorney general" - Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal - is leading a crusade…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/21/2007

Jason and the rest of the Bureaucrash crew are making their way across the northeast part of our great continent this week, as part of…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 08/21/2007

The today’s Washington Post carries an interesting story about the Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork bag. As you see from the picture, the bag…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/20/2007

In a recent paper, University of Calgary economist Robert J. Oxoby addresses the eternal question: Who was the better singer to have fronted AC/DC,…

• By: John Berlau
• 08/17/2007

Ivan, those are good points that Oliva makes at the Mises blog. But there is another interesting aspect that makes this an especially…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 08/17/2007

Late yesterday, a federal judge rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s objection to the proposed merger between premium grocery chains Whole Foods and Wild Oats.

• By: John Berlau
• 08/16/2007

As we remember Elvis Presley today, on the 30th anniversary of his death, free-marketeers may find of interest a particular overlooked song Elvis sang about…