The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/28/2011

Yet another batch of regulatory bloopers: Motorists entering Tacoma, Washington, with criminal intent are required to telephone the chief of police. It is illegal to…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/27/2011

Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh debunks a flawed study that exaggerates the costs of undocumented immigration.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/25/2011

The people of Illinois don’t expect their government to be corrupt; they insist on it. That’s why nary an eyebrow was raised when it recently…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/24/2011

Art Carden has an excellent column about immigration, and not just because the first third is about The Simpsons.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/21/2011

It is illegal to slurp your soup in New Jersey restaurants, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/20/2011

CEI Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith, coauthor of the new CEI study "Free Trade without Apology," talks about the recently passed free trade agreements with Colombia,…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/14/2011

Here's a letter I recently sent to The Economist:…

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/12/2011

This video is a quick primer on trade from someone who literally wrote the book about it.

Trade and International

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/06/2011

Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews is author of the new CEI study, “The Other National Debt Crisis: How and Why Congress Must Quantify Regulation."…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/05/2011

Lawmakers need to do something about their do-something bias and try a deregulatory stimulus. Besides stimulating the economy, it would likely stimulate approval ratings, too.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/04/2011

First-generational suborbital crafts would reach 2,200 miles per hour, with an eventual goal of hitting 13,750 miles per hour. A trip from London to Sydney…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/30/2011

Massage parlors are illegal in well-named Horneytown, North Carolina, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/29/2011

In this morning's CEI Podcast, my colleague John Berlau predicted that the new price cap on debit card swipe fees would lead to the end…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/29/2011

Every time you use your debit card, the merchant has to pay a fee to the company that issued your card, usually about 1 percent…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/23/2011

In Seattle, Washington, the maximum length allowed for concealed weapons is 6 feet, plus more.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/22/2011

E-Verify is a program that checks the immigration status of new hires. The House is expected to vote on legislation that would make E-Verify mandatory…

Labor and Employment

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/21/2011

Threats to freedoms even as trivial as planking should not be taken lying down.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/20/2011

This year's Federal Register is on pace to be 80,190 pages long. That's an average of 220 pages of fresh proposed rules, final rules, notices,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/16/2011

Flirting is illegal in Haddon, New Jersey, plus more.

Regulatory Reform