The Open Market Blog

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/05/2008

OK so I’m a latecomer to the show, a multi-Emmy winning hit on AMC. Got a kick out of leading ad-man Don Draper’s encapsulation of…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/05/2008

Organized labor came out big for Barack Obama and other Democrats running for offices across the country, so we can expect the unions to demand…

• By: Fran Smith
• 11/05/2008

A bit of election trivia from Reuters today, which tracked how the stock market fared the day after presidential elections from 1896 through…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/05/2008

I’ve started a new Facebook discussion on if/how advocates for free markets can work with the new administration.  Sen. Obama claims to respect free…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/05/2008

It seems few would deserve it more than author Michael Crichton, author of numerous books on sweeping techno-thriller themes that were irresistable candy to a…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 11/05/2008

Michelle makes a good point below. There’s also a good case that an Obama administration will be good news for those who favor…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/05/2008

Last night after President-elect Obama had given his acceptance speech the punditry machine started up again.  Tom Brokaw, a veteran anchorman at NBC, surprisingly made…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/05/2008

Whether you were backing the other guy, or you objected to all of the candidates, free marketeers may find some reasons to…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/04/2008

The best podcast around just got best-er. It’s a new episode of LibertyWeek, hot off of the audio deck. Join your hosts…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 11/04/2008

Brilliant insight from Fred Barnes in the Wall St. Journal today: “We could be in for a lurch to the left.” That’s why he gets…

• By: Iain Murray
• 11/04/2008

Eli, I wrote about the superiority of paper ballots in The Denver Post back in 2000. Unfortunately, the article has disappeared into the aether. Luckily,…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 11/04/2008

Voting this morning in my busy Fairfax County Precinct, I realized something: the old way of voting–on paper ballots–is better than every new…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/04/2008

The Hill reports today that: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday defended the so-called Fairness Doctrine in an interview on Fox News, saying, “I…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/04/2008

Since Bill Clinton ran in 1992 and MTV decided to “Rock the Vote” the youth vote has been something often talked about, but something that…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/04/2008

Today, as you may have heard, is kind of an important day for some people. It is that day that comes along once every…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/03/2008

You can now donate to the Competitive Enterprise Institute here on the OpenMarket.org blog.  You can setup…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/03/2008

In the eternal battle of industry vs. regulators, the horseracing industry is employing a wily plan that just might save it from the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/03/2008

Yma Sumac, the multi-octave exotic Peruvian songstress died Saturday in Los Angeles. Her music never fit into any genre, defying all attempts at categorization. Even…