The Open Market Blog

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/13/2007

A relatively flexible labor market has long been one of America’s great economic strengths — as well as of Great Britain relative to Continental Europe.

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 02/13/2007

An Associated Press story today warns that the roses you get for Valentines Day could be lethal.  In places like Columbia, they are “sprayed, rinsed…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders lamented how, despite the corporate welfare Detroit has received over the decades, it is lagging behind Toyota in technological development. Hmmm.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/13/2007

It has been brought to my attention that Open Market’s own Chris Horner is currently bounding up the Amazon bestseller list with his new book,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Senator Bond is making the connection between Enron and cap and trade quite explicitly.

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

There is considerable confusion among the Democratic Senators as to whether or not the U.S. has signed Kyoto. Senator Lautenberg stated the U.S. has not…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Bill Lash admitted in answer to a question from Sentor Klobuchar that an upstream cap and trade system is just like a cap. He did…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Senator Klobuchar has just suggested that we might not be getting “the truth” out of Government scientists. If she is so concerned about politicization of…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Senator Carper asked the PG&E spokesman what his motivation was. He replied that because PG&E’s business model “decouples” its revenues from its sales, cap and…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Fred is speaking now, underlining that CEI is pro-market, not pro-business necessarily. He is warning against the carbon cartel, the creation of a rationing sytem…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Kevin Hook, an energy analyst speaking in a personal capacity, points out that some of the CAP’s suggestions could raise national gasoline bill by over…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Steve Elger from BP America is now speaking. I wonder if he’ll mention BP’s safety record while it has been saving the planet?…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

At the EPW hearing on the Climate Action Partnership, Jonathan Lash of the World Resources Institute talks about how his group’s target is 450 –…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

The CEO for energy company PG&E, a company that does not use any significant amounts of coal, is setting out an admirable program of efficiency…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

At a Senate hearing today to discuss the rent-seeking cartel masquerading as the Climate Action Partnership, Fred Smith will present the testimony here. Senator…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 02/13/2007

CEI President Fred Smith is testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee this morning on the Climate Action Partnership and the effects…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/12/2007

This week’s new episode of  the Fox animated series”King of the Hill” centers around a great — and hilarious — illustration of the public…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Ivan has an excellent take on the unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage (below), so I’ll limit myself to highlighting a recent…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Open Market readers may have seen this already, but I wanted to point out one interesting development from last night’s Grammy awards. The award for…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/12/2007

It shouldn’t be surprising. In Arizona, the state’s minimum wage hike, which went into effect last month, has led to teenagers being laid off,…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/12/2007

So, as I ponder the massive pressure group assault against passenger aviation and comparative per capita emissions (the city of Aspen having wonderfully shown us…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 02/12/2007

At a Capitol Hill policy briefing on February 9 for congressional staff and media, sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Dennis Avery of the Hudson…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/11/2007

In the least surprising headline of the weekend, Drudge alerts us: “Socialist candidate in France unveils far-left platform…” Je suis l’état…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/11/2007

In the weekend Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore, quotes former CEI Warren Brookes Fellow Tim Carney from his book The Big Ripoff: How…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/09/2007

My good friend and fellow radical for capitalism — and former Warren Brookes Fellow — Brian Doherty (now with Reason magazine) will discuss his new…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/08/2007

On February 6, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart in…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 02/08/2007

The growth in air travel is one of the culprits behind the alleged global warming crisis. (See, for example, Cheap Air Travel Adding to…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/07/2007

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a woman so passionate about the cause of global warming that she created a new select committee dedicated exclusively to…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/07/2007

Deroy Murdock writes about ethanol in National Review Online today, specifically on the effect on food prices, as the Mexican tortilla crisis illustrates: Existing…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 02/07/2007

Pollster Michael McKenna just released his latest survey on what Americans think about enviro issues, particularly global warming. Some interesting findings: 1.  Environmental issues as…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 02/07/2007

Robert Samuelson has a great column on the global warming issue in today’s Washington Post. He hits the nail on the head when it…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/07/2007

While the big telecom firms and some free speech and civil liberties groups may clash over issues like net neutrality, they agree over the fact…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/07/2007

After much anticipation, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, has introduced the Orwellian-monikered Employee Free Choice Act (H.R.800).

• By: Gregory Conko
• 02/06/2007

Sure, everyone’s heard that a US Department of Agriculture regulation governs the size of the holes in Swiss Cheese. But, did…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/06/2007

An avian flu outbreak in the UK has had that country’s media in a predictable panic.  The Times’ Mick Hume has a rational response:…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/06/2007

If you live in Texas, you’ll have heard about how the coal-based energy utilities want to build a lot of new power plants to meet…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/06/2007

Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has all but declared himself a Republican presidential candidate by filing an official “statement of candidacy” and saying he is “in…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/06/2007

Here is a graphical representation of EU energy policy: Translation: Lisbon – the EU require energy to keep its industries running; it has to…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/06/2007

At the cost of 10,000 jobs, but that’s a small price to pay for a slight reduction in the rate of global warming.  I’m…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/06/2007

  For those who don’t think trade is in trouble and is being used as the big stick to solve all global problems, the World…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/05/2007

Opinion research guru Bob Lichter has a good dissection of the problem with the Union of Concerned Scientists study on federal interference with science that…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/05/2007

Greg Mankiw notes that President Bush is considering some form of road pricing to reduce congestion. London has a congestion charge which deeply divides…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/05/2007

Today’s New York Times has a funny op-ed (both funny ha ha and funny odd for the NYT). It’s a spoof by Rick…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/04/2007

Also worth reading in the weekend Journal is an article by Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London, in which…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/03/2007

Today’s Journal also features an op ed by Coca-Cola CEO E. Neville Isdell, on his company “corporate social responsibility” policies. He cites some specific examples…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/03/2007

Today’s weekend Wall Street Journal features a favorable editorial on CEI’s national survey of orthopedic surgeons, which was released earlier this week. As…