The Open Market Blog

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/01/2008

Congratulations are in order to our friend Steve Milloy, who is celebrating the 12th year of his flagship website, Junkscience.com. Ever since 1996 he’s…

• By: Fran Smith
• 04/01/2008

At a press conference today, House and Senate conferees negotiating the 2007 Farm Bill said that they had decided to scrap the bloated $287…

• By: Hans Bader
• 04/01/2008

Maryland legislators are inflicting a moronic new “diversity” mandate on Maryland colleges. Legislation to force institutions of higher learning in Maryland to create…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/31/2008

The Fed has cut interest rates to ridiculously low levels to try to bail out mortgage borrowers and prop up the U.S. economy.  But that has led…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/31/2008

The Supreme Court turned away the Justice Department’s appeal of a ruling that will make it harder to prosecute New Orleans Congressman William Jefferson, who was…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/31/2008

Recently, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down regional taxes to pay for transportation improvements, such as the perverse grantor’s tax on homeowners, based on the principle…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 03/31/2008

Business incubators have long been a place where small companies can get help that makes them grow to the next level. A non-profit in Hyderabad…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/31/2008

Yahoo Finance discusses how mortgage bailout measures turn Aesop’s fable about the ant and the grasshopper on its head, rewarding irresponsibility and punishing thrift…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/30/2008

One of the most ignorant and gratingly common complaints about American politics is that of their being bland, uninteresting, and failing to engage large segments…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/30/2008

In his latest column, former CEI Warren Brookes Fellow Tim Carney looks at how rent-seeking opportunities based on  feel-good environmental campaigns, which are currently…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/29/2008

Bailing out mortgage borrowers is a bad idea that most Americans oppose.  Yet the “Bush administration is finalizing details of a plan,” “backed by…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/28/2008

“U.S. capital markets again lost ground against global competitors last year, highlighting the need to streamline regulation and crack down on excessive securities litigation,…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/28/2008

Most Americans oppose a mortgage bailout, both for borrowers and for lenders.  They oppose bailouts for homeowners by a roughly 2-to-1 margin (53 percent…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/28/2008

The National Center for Public Policy Research has a new study, and Internet ad, on the proposal to list the polar bear under the…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/28/2008

Mark Tapscott writes about disgraced New York politician Eliot Spitzer’s hypocrisy in the Examiner.   Spitzer flouted the rules while loudly berating others for real or imaginary transgressions,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/28/2008

In today’s New York Times, a feature story profiles a project to create a national economic planning supercomputer by the socialist government of Salvador…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/28/2008

Courtesy of Todd Zywicki at the Volokh Conspiracy, I’ve just learned that President Bush will be appointing William Kovacic to chair the…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 03/28/2008

Morning edition had an amazing story about the government race to patent the atom bomb this morning. The patenting process actually jeopardized the secrecy…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 03/27/2008

Today, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson announced that EPA would respond to the Supreme Court global warming case, Massachusetts v. EPA, by issuing an Advance Notice of…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/26/2008

The US government is no stranger to ridiculousness. As Eli pointed out in his recent study on dumb product bans, the logic (I use…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/26/2008

“Lawsuit Abuse Kills Puppies,” reports Ted Frank at Overlawyered.  “Rogier von Bakel is furious at his local SPCA because they would rather put a…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/26/2008

American lawyers, who are overwhelmingly liberal, cite foreign law when it is politically inconvenient, and ignore it when it isn’t.  They like to cite it to argue…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/26/2008

Prodded by the President, Congress belatedly moved to curb abusive class-action lawsuits through the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005.  But when one door to extortionate…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/26/2008

Courtesy of Ivan, I’ve been directed to this press release from the Weston A. Price Foundation decrying a U.S. FDA and California Department of…