The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/28/2008

Barack Obama says he would keep in place the 47-year old Cuban trade embargo if elected President. CNN says Obama views the trade restrictions…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/28/2008

What can you say about a health care system that treats animals more quickly than humans?  Reports Macleans: Dr. Danny Joffe is only half…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 05/27/2008

The Washington Examiner has an editorial today titled “Environmentalism is not about the Environment.”  Indeed. …

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/27/2008

The Washington Examiner has an interesting editorial today called “Environmentalism Isn’t About the Environment.”  It describes how environmental measures expand and metastasize government power in ways…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/26/2008

In the Washington Examiner, Daniel Ballon and Lawrence McQuillan criticize a bill pending in Congress that would lead to credit card companies reducing their rebates to…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/25/2008

The federal government massively subsidizes corn-based ethanol production, even though it consumes as much energy as it generates, thus doing nothing to cut greenhouse gas emissions.  Yet the federal government…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/23/2008

In a strong defense of international trade  and the pending U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, President George W. Bush in a Fox interview today also worried…

• By: John Berlau
• 05/23/2008

Author’s note: See follow-up post “Are Borrowers Next?” Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/22/2008

On Reason‘s blog today, Michael C. Moynihan asks the question, “Does Yusuf al-Qaradawi Qualify as an Intellectual?” Moynihan was referring to al…

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/22/2008

Right now South Korea is working toward a free trade agreement with the U.S. It could increase trade between the two nations by…

• By: Ryan Radia
• 05/22/2008

Stuck with limited ISP choices, broadband users are increasingly angry with the growing number of providers that poke around in their customers' traffic.

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/22/2008

“An appeals court has ruled that Texas had no right to seize hundreds of children from a polygamous sect.”  The children were seized after someone pretending to…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/21/2008

In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins explains why mortgage bailout proposals would reward greedy and foolish borrowers and speculators in certain regions at…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/21/2008

The Wall Street Journal criticized yesterday’s appeals court ruling that paper money discriminates against the blind.  Even the National Federation of the Blind…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/21/2008

In an editorial today, the Washington Times skewers the 35 Republican Senators and 100 representatives who voted for what the WT called the “odious”…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/21/2008

In the Wall Street Journal, economist and former Carter Administration official Fred Bergsten chides Congressional leaders for blocking votes on trade agreements with friendly countries like…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/20/2008

According to their press release today, the Business Roundtable convened a policy meeting with CEOs of major companies and members of Congress to urge…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/20/2008

A divided D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 2-to-1 that paper money discriminates against the blind in violation of the Rehabilitation Act, in American…

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/20/2008

All data are not treated equally on the Internet. There is only so much bandwidth to go around, so service providers…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/20/2008

David Brooks’ column today in the New York Times discusses the Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s positions on the bloated Farm Bill in…

• By: William Yeatman
• 05/20/2008

E&E News has an advance copy of Senate EPW…

• By: Hans Bader
• 05/19/2008

Genetically-modified (“GM”) crops help the environment in many ways.  They reduce the need for pesticide use by engineering plants to be more blight-resistant.  And by reducing the amount of land…

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/19/2008

Ala Don Boudreaux’s style at Cafehayek, below is a letter I sent to the Wall Street Journal last week: Jason…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 05/17/2008

Remember, the answer to our health care problems is to turn over health care decisions to the government.  Everyone will have access to health care. …

• By: Alex Nowrasteh
• 05/16/2008

This story reveals a startlingly obvious fact: immigrants help American intelligence agencies. “The intelligence agencies lack people who can speak the languages that are…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/16/2008

The new Farm Bill is a done deal — with both the House and the Senate passing the conference report with huge numbers:…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/16/2008

Tim Carney continues exposing the politically motivated pork that politicians dole out to buy support and campaign contributions. This week, in his DC Examiner…