The Open Market Blog

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/13/2012

OPINION CATHY YOUNG: "A Pox on Both Houses in the Contraception Controversy" "Sometimes, I catch a lot of flak for taking a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/12/2012

OPINION LAWRENCE HUNTER: "Justice Antonin Scalia: Man on the Obamacare Margin" "Hayek explained why conservatives are so lame at protecting individual rights:…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/09/2012

OPINION RYAN CALO: "Drones, Dogs, and the Future of Privacy" "Just in case you haven’t seen the memo: Drones are coming to…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/08/2012

OPINION TIMOTHY B. LEE: "The Obama Administration Wants Warrantless Access to Cell Phone Locational Data" "A Maryland court last week ruled that…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/07/2012

OPINION TYLER COWEN: "Matt Yglesias' New Book" "If people were the size of ants, without encountering any absurdities of physics or biology,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/06/2012

OPINION JOHN VILLASENOR: "Can the Government Force Suspects to Decrypt Incriminating Files?" "What happens when the government’s desire to access a suspect’s…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/05/2012

OPINION ERIN GLORIA RYAN: "Unbelievably Stupid Law Would Declare Single Parenthood Child Abuse" "Senate Bill 507 is sponsored by Republican Senator Glenn…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/02/2012

OPINION DAVID HENDERSON: "Tear Down These Walls" "Something has switched for me and I think a large part of the reason is…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/01/2012

OPINION MIKE MASNICK: "NSA Power Grab: New Legislation Would Give It Broad Powers To Spy On 'Critical' Private Networks" "Last week, in talking…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/29/2012

OPINION LAWRENCE LINDSEY: "Geithner and the 'Privilege' of Being American" "Last week Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that the "most fortunate Americans"…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/28/2012

OPINION DAVID CARR: "Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth" "Last Wednesday in the White House briefing room, the administration’s press secretary, Jay…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/27/2012

OPINION RUSS ROBERTS: "The Insanity of Health Insurance" "It is insane that we get our health care from our employers. That happens…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/24/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/24/2012

OPINION JACOB SULLUM: "Distorting the Economy is the Whole Point" "Distorting the economy is not, as NPR suggests, an unwanted side effect…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/22/2012

OPINION MORT ZUCKERMAN: "The Cost of Obama's Keystone XL Dithering" "The original Keystone pipeline won approval after two years and is operational.

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/21/2012

OPINION RAMESH PONNURU: "U.S. Limits on Government Can't Work Everywhere" "Although the drafters and ratifiers of the U.S. Constitution sought a stronger…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/17/2012

OPINION KATHERINE MANGU-WARD: "Free-Range Parenting: You're Going to Go to Jail. Maybe." "Hey look, here's a big omnibus article by David Pimentel…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/16/2012

OPINION GLENN G. LAMMI: "Court Should Dismiss Privacy Group's Suit vs. FTC Over Google Buzz Settlement" "On Friday,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/15/2012

OPINION MICHAEL BARONE: "A Failure of Imagination Put Metro on Wrong Track" "Believers in central planning should take a look at Washington's…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/14/2012

OPINION DAVID WEIGEL: "Why Super PACs Are Good for Democracy" "It’s getting harder to argue that super PACs have horribly degraded our…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/13/2012

OPINION SHIKA DALMIA: "GM Profits, But Taxpayers Are Still On the Hook" "Three years after being rescued by a taxpayer bailout, …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/10/2012

OPINION DON BOUDREAUX: "The Twistocracy" "[U.S. Senator Kirsten] Gillibrand (D-NY) said: 'The power to decide whether or not to use contraception lies…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/08/2012

OPINION MARK BUCHANAN: "A Bar May Be The Place to Understand Markets" "Economists have wondered for decades why markets have 'excess volatility'…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/07/2012

OPINION SEN. ROB PORTMAN and SEN. MARK PRYOR: "A Push for Smart Regulations" "The Regulatory Accountability Act, which we introduced along with…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/06/2012

OPINION STEVEN HORWITZ: "Creating Jobs Versus Creating Value" "Picking on New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is one of the largest participation sports on…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/03/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/03/2012

OPINION ADAM SNEED: "The Wrong Way to Monitor Internet Cafes for Terrorists" "If you’ve ever cared about privacy while using the Internet…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/01/2012

OPINION JAMES PERON: "Why Libertarians Need to Talk to the Left and How to Do It" "A local libertarian party group once…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/31/2012

OPINION SANJIV AHUJA: "Lost in D.C.'s Iron Triangle" "LightSquared, encouraged by the Federal Communications Commission under both the Obama and Bush administrations,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/30/2012

OPINION MARK P. MILLS & JULIO M. OTTINO: "The Coming Tech-Led Boom" "In January 1912, the United States emerged from a two-year…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/27/2012

  CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/27/2012

OPINION ALEX TABARROK: "The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State" "We like to think of ourselves as an innovation nation, but our…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/26/2012

OPINION MEGAN MCARDLE: "The President's Nostalgianomics" "Obama, stymied by an economy that's still pretty weak, and an opposition that has no more…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/25/2012

OPINION REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: "Familiar Rhetoric, Failed Record (VIDEO)" CONOR FRIEDERSDORF: "The State of the Union: What Obama Doesn't Get…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/24/2012

OPINION JORDAN WEISSMANN: "Why the United States Will Never, Ever Build the iPhone" "This weekend, The New York Times published a long exploration of the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/23/2012

OPINION BILL CLINTON: "Charity Needs Capitalism to Solve the World's Problems" "Charity alone will not solve the world’s problems. …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/20/2012

  CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/20/2012

OPINION PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG: "Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists" "The price of gas is a puzzle. Monitor the average…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/19/2012

OPINION DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH: "Jobs Are Created and Destroyed Every Year" "There's no specific, reliable number for the jobs that Mitt Romney supposedly…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/18/2012

OPINION TIM CARNEY: "The False Frame of Regulation vs. Inequality" "I think when people say the economy is rigged for the rich,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/17/2012

OPINION RALPH BRISTOL: "Capitalism Good, Too Many Capitalists Bad" "One of the biggest flaws of too many capitalists emerges when they have…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/13/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/13/2012

OPINION PETER BOETTKE: "Austrian Economics" "Analytically, the biggest difference between the Austrians and their mainstream brethren is a focus on processes of…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/11/2012

OPINION DAHLIA LITHWICK: "Ifs, Ands, or Butts: The Supreme Court Gets the Full Monty Treatment" "Waxman patiently explains to the rapt justices…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/10/2012

OPINION SALON DEBATE: "What is Plagiarism?" "The last weeks of 2011 were littered with …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/09/2012

OPINION ANDOR JAKAB: "This is Why I Don't Give You a Job" "I wouldn't hire a woman. The reason is very simple: women give…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/06/2012

OPINION GREG LUKIANOFF: "Clear Campus Rules Needed on 'Harassment'" "Overly broad harassment codes remain the weapon of choice on campus to punish…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/05/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "People Want Transit Accessible Housing, But Will They Be Able to Afford It?" " The gigantic premiums in the inner…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/04/2012

OPINION DAVE WEIGEL: "Rickrolled: Three Lessons From Iowa" "Lesson Two: Money is speech, which means people can ignore it.