The Open Market Blog

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/19/2006

I missed reading the Financial Times yesterday (Fred stole it), so missed until today Lucy Kellaway’s riotous column where she gives business jargon awards…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/19/2006

The Charleston Daily Mail editorial page recently featured “Rockefeller is Out of Line” a critique of the Senator’s “intemperate attempt to squelch debate.” Sen.

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/19/2006

Is it my imagination or is there an increasing trend to view the greenies and their fears as chicken littles, whiners, and basically nuts? It…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/18/2006

Today the European Union’s trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, rejected carbon border taxes as an approach to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by imposing tariffs…

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/18/2006

Those with longer memories may remember some hue and cry just over a year ago when various Inuit communities joined with environmental groups to claim…

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/18/2006

Daniel Schrag, a Harvard climatologist, is disgusted at the way the democratic process handles his issue. So disgusted, in fact, he…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/16/2006

The intersection between commerce and culture is a space that few people have occupied as successfully as Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, who passed away…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/15/2006

The U.S. and China completed their economic talks today, with both sides calling the dialogue successful in reaching agreement on several strategic issues.

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/13/2006

The changes in Congress accelerate what has already been a trend toward the “universal health care plan” long endorsed by all “right thinking Americans.” One…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/13/2006

William Saletan, Science and Technology writer for Slate, has weighed in on New York City’s decision to ban transfat use. His rhetorical case against transfats…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/12/2006

New York’s increased competition from other world financial centers, such as London and Hong Kong, due to the increased regulatory burden imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/12/2006

It’s now official — Vietnam notified the World Trade Organization December 12 that it had ratified its WTO membership agreement and will be joining…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/11/2006

In what may be the political understatement of all time, Tom DeLay explains the thinking behind his new blog, in part, with the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/11/2006

Letters to the Editor in the Financial Times are usually literate, civil, and informed. Sometimes too they are also passionate. Such is the case with…

• By: Fran Smith
• 12/11/2006

A front-page article in Sunday’s Washington Post, titled “Dairy Industry Crushed Innovator Who Bested Price-Control System,” recounts how Arizona dairy farmer Hein Hettinga thought…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/11/2006

CEI and Fred Smith make appearances in Radicals for Capitalism, the upcoming history of the modern American libertarian movement by Reason Senior Editor and…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/10/2006

Cato’s Brink Lindsey in a provocative essay in The New Republic argues that the recent election results argue for a realignment, Democrats, he suggests,…