The Open Market Blog

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

The populist rhetoric in the recent elections was widespread. We need to tax the rich and the greedy corporations – take from the rich and…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/08/2007

Hopes are rising that the U.S. and the European Union may find ways to work out their differences on advancing more open international trade. Today…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

Lester Brown, founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute, estimates that in 2008, U.S. ethanol distilleries will require 139 million tons of corn…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

Over the Holidays, I sought to catch up on some long-deferred reading. One book, Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins was on that…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

Robert Samuelson wrote a recent column, “Myths and the Middle Class,” quoting statistics that indicate that only 2 percent of Americans see themselves as…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

A news item (from researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle) found that cinnamon and vanilla levels in the Puget Sound rose over…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

Thomas Sowell wrote a series of columns recently seeking to deconstruct the Left’s confusion over “fairness.” Their ideal, as many have noted, seems to be…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/07/2007

It should be expected that climate doomsayers would try to seize the unseasonal warm weather the Northeastern U.S. has been experiencing as another “sign” of impending global…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/05/2007

Those of us concerned about national sovereignty and global governance — no, not the black helicopter style — should check out a recent speech…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/04/2007

In the Christian Science Monitor’s Jan. 4 issue, GMU’s Don Boudreaux takes a whack at Dobbs in his “open letter” to the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/04/2007

Economist Jagdish Bhagwati does it again — in an FT opinion piece today, he pricks holes in the Dobbsian view that globalization has…

• By: Christine Hall
• 01/03/2007

In the news today, a group of San Francisco lefties + assorted friends who are renewing a pledge to forego shopping for the entire…

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/28/2006

From Numberwatch, the Sixth Annual Numby Awards.  Readers will be glad to know every effort was made to preserve the planet’s delicate ecosystem: Once…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/22/2006

I came across a UK government site that looks into the future across a range of issues. It’s part of the UK’s Foresight Program.

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/22/2006

The Washington Post continued its hard-hitting series attacking farm subsidies today. The article notes that some important counter-forces to the big-bucks farm lobbies are…

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/22/2006

Frank Johnson, the Thatcherite journalist and wit, died recently at the tragically early age of 63. It has been a bad year for Thatcherites –…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/21/2006

Yesterday, President Bush announced that he may go along with Congressional Democrats’ proposal for an increase in the federal minimum wage, in exchange for…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/20/2006

According to news reports, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will release on Wednesday a database showing just which farmers get part of the $56…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/20/2006

Two books about her have been published this year, numerous book reviews have hailed her role in the Enlightenment, and an op-ed…

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/20/2006

In a world were geriatric actor Kirk Douglas can say to “America’s young people”: “THE WORLD IS IN A MESS and you are inheriting…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/20/2006

It’s almost cliched now to say that free market advocates expecting Republicans to control the growth of government shows the triumph of hope over experience,…