The Open Market Blog

• 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…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 02/02/2007

Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, this week launched an investigation of the several charges that the…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 02/02/2007

Today, in a press release timed to coincide with publication of the Summary for Policymakers of Climate Change 2007, also known as the…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/02/2007

Well, it turns out that the report on which I based my previous two posts on IPCC temperature projections was hideously garbled. The reporter had…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 02/02/2007

Last night CEI’s John Berlau was a guest on Libertarian Politics Live to talk about his new book, Eco-Freaks. The entertaining interview starts about 7:30…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 02/02/2007

This is depressing. Wal-Mart has decided to take the politically correct road—working to eliminate its so-called “carbon footprint.” What on earth does that mean? Are…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/01/2007

Pubs in Ireland, pubs in Great Britain, bard in New York — in recent years, long-established smoking traditions have been snuffed out in the unlikeliest places — and the country whose…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/01/2007

Last night “Larry King Live” hosted a debate on global warming featuring a large cast of characters that included Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/01/2007

For those who have been tempted by the attractions of Pigovian taxes, Russell Roberts provides a cogent explanation of why Coasean theory suggests that…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 02/01/2007

Not content to report the weather, the Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen has become a global warming pundit, recently appearing on Larry King Live, where…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/01/2007

I wrote earlier about how the IPCC has quietly changed its definition of its projected temperature rises to include all pre-industrial warming, not just…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/01/2007

Nominations closed today for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is supposed to be awarded to a person who “shall have conferred the greatest benefit…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/01/2007

Unfortunately for members of the lower house of Maine’s legislature, some of their colleagues have decided that they all have less self-control than most 14-year…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/01/2007

Everyone’s favorite “walrus-moustachioed” anti-globalist has set his eyes on high public office. French sheep-farmer/McDonald’s hater Jose Bove has declared he’ll be running for President…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/31/2007

A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists finds “unacceptably large numbers of federal climate scientists [have] personally experienced instances of [political] interference…

• By: John Berlau
• 01/31/2007

By proclamation of several cities and states, Monday was Milton Friedman Day. CEI was one of many free-market groups that joined in this…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/31/2007

This morning Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns presented the Administration proposals for the new Farm Bill. Here’s his press…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/31/2007

Looks rather large: Perhaps he should be called Bigfoot?       …

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

In today’s Politico, Amy Doolittle has a light-hearted story on the tours that Members of Congress occasionally give for constituents around the Capitol. A…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/31/2007

At a House Ways and Means Committee hearing yesterday, chaired by Representative Charles Rangel, witnesses said that the effects of trade and globalization on…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/31/2007

Today President Bush in New York City delivered his second speech on the economy. As expected, in the speech he called…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 01/31/2007

Grist magazine just published an interesting Q&A with Frank Luntz, famed GOP pollster and author of the new book, Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say,…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/31/2007

In a Washington Post column, George Will questions the constitutionality of a recent vote in the House of Representatives to give delegates from Washington, D.C. and territories,…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 01/31/2007

California usually leads the nation in the formulation of bad public policy—which policymakers in other states often see as a model. But this week, they…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

The state of California is poised to claim yet another feather for its environmental-pioneer cap with a proposed ban on the sale of incandescent…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/31/2007

American Public Radio’s Marketplace Morning Report has yet another report today on how U.S. demand for corn to make into ethanol is causing a…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/31/2007

So the IPCC report that’s going to be released on Friday isn’t gloomy enough, eh?  It will find less projected temperature rise and less…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/30/2007

President Bush in Peoria, IL today gave one of two speeches scheduled on the economy (the next will be in NYC tomorrow). He addressed…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/30/2007

Are you an aspiring journalist for Reuters? If so, you need to know how to “bury the lede,” which is insider journo-talk for ignoring the…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/30/2007

There is a respectable, if (we feel) incorrect, case to be made for the idea of raising taxes to lower demand for an activity or…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/30/2007

I post this article, despite its breathless credulity about the imminence of a world beyond petroleum, because it reveals how Washington works. Bush and the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/29/2007

Over at Townhall.com, columnist Mary Katharine Ham comments on the premiere of the documentary Mine Your Own Business (the screening was co-sponsored…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 01/29/2007

Some global warming alarmists, including a few scientists, are complaining about the forthcoming Fourth Assessment Report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…