The Open Market Blog

• By: John Berlau
• 10/29/2007

Today, I have a piece in American Thinker on how environmental regulations, much more than global warming, were likely a factor in the intensity…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/29/2007

The problems of the health care system are many and complex--burdensome state regulation, massive federal programs, counterproductive tax incentives, and the popular presumption that health…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/29/2007

It's time to pull out the world's smallest violin for The Nation magazine. They are lefties, but at a time when the conservative establishment is…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/29/2007

Halloween will be a little scarier this year. Along with the other horrifying regulations on this Wednesday's schedule we can now…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/29/2007

Trade sanctions are a favorite foreign policy tool, but they don't have a very good record. It's hard to find a case where sanctions forced…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/29/2007

The Italian language version of my book, The Frankenfood Myth, co-written with CEI adjunct scholar and Hoover Institution fellow Henry I. Miller, was…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/26/2007

Okay, here’s a government action I can agree with: Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Dennis Wolff ordered 16 dairies in Pennsylvania to correct their milk…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/26/2007

In his now weekly DC Examiner Friday column, Tim Carney, CEI's 2005-2006 Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow, looks at just who exactly stands to most…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/26/2007

We thought President Reagan had killed it, but it keeps coming back — “it” being the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which Reagan…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/26/2007

It may be a forlorn hope that politicians of either party will ever be truly fiscally responsible, opposing spending programs that either are not authorized…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/26/2007

There is no McDonald's in Ethiopia. Perhaps if there was, 3000000 people would not die this year from malnutrition. In a world where poverty…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/26/2007

There's nothing new about partisans playing hardball when it comes to politics. But it is unusual when partisans attempt to jail their opponents. That apparently…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/26/2007

People often denounce the profit motive as harsh and unfeeling. Only volunteer or government offered aid is supposedly offered with the sincere desire to help.

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/25/2007

The Commission that selects administrative law judges (ALJs) in Washington, D.C. is leaning towards not reappointing Roy Pearson, the ALJ who brought a $54…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/25/2007

“Time to ditch Kyoto” says a commentary in Nature magazine’s October 25 issue. The article, written by Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner, points…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/25/2007

California wildfires have driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, caused death and destruction, and consumed more than 700 square miles of land.

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/25/2007

Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies has just released a study by Dan Griswold showing that increased trade is not responsible for a lower…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/25/2007

The new SCHIP bill set for a vote today, attempts to woo Republicans by prohibiting illegal immigrants from enrolling in the program. These changes don’t…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/24/2007

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/24/2007

The Wall Street Journal today carries an opinion piece by Stephen J. Rose (subscription required), a labor economist with the Progressive Policy Institute, titled…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/24/2007

The European Commission is taking Finland to court to try to force it to ban the sale of snus, a form of smokeless tobacco.

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/24/2007

MSN says that Merrill Lynch wrote down the value of its mortgage holdings by nearly $8 billion just in the past quarter, producing a…

• By: Ryan Radia
• 10/24/2007

Comcast is under fire again, this time for spoofing network packets to stop its users from uploading using peer-to-peer software. The technology Comcast…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/24/2007

Hans, excellent points about the folly of a government-organized bailout. Indeed the Dow had gone back to 14,000 the week before Paulson opened his…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/24/2007

I am sick and tired of waiting for my morning cup of coffee. At the joint I go to (which shall remain nameless) I can…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/24/2007

A New York Times article today poses the question of whether or not regulatory oversight has been too lax on the meat packaging industry.

• By: William Yeatman
• 10/24/2007

The developed world’s seemingly unquenchable thirst for miracle fuels made from food is pushing Russia further towards authoritarianism. The Financial Times today reports that…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/23/2007

The bloated farm bill making its way through the new Congress is not only a budget-buster. It is chock full of corporate welfare…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/23/2007

Don Boudreaux over at CafeHayek is outraged at an off-the-wall, gratuitous attack on Norman Borlaug in Alexander Cockburn’s latest diatribe appearing in the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/23/2007

London Times columnist Sarah Baxter offers an amusing anecdote that illustrates what happens when two incompatible, yet equally illiberal, ideologies collide. A glorious…