The Open Market Blog

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/12/2007

A committee selected by Norway's socialist legislature has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Its criteria…

• By: Lene Johansen
• 10/12/2007

I am ashamed to be Norwegian today. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose to give the prize to a shyster and a bureaucratic ministry of truth.

• By: Ryan Radia
• 10/12/2007

Two lawsuits have been filed over the iPhone, accusing Apple and AT&T of illegal monopolistic behavior. The lawsuit seeks damages because of software Apple…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/11/2007

The City of Belmont, California has banned smoking in most apartment units as well as in public parks and other public spaces. (In Santa…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/11/2007

Jacob Sullum writes in Reason about the downside of the FDA tobacco regulation bill. CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman earlier wrote to Congress…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/11/2007

Edwin Meese, who served as attorney general under President Reagan, defends again the late President’s rejection of the Law of the Sea Treaty in…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/11/2007

David Freddoso has an interesting column in National Review Online about the D.C. Government’s lack of concern for crime victims. The District justifies its…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/11/2007

The New York Times today reports that Americans are neglecting the health of their teeth more than ever. While the number of dentists…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 10/11/2007

Dorris Lessing won the Nobel prize in literature today. I’ve never been a fan of her work myself. I don’t think I ever finished…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/10/2007

Lots of good commentary in today’s newspapers. In the Financial Times, Columbia University economist (and Friend of CEI) Jagdish Bhagwati notes that rumors of…

• By: Iain Murray
• 10/10/2007

The British government decided that it would be a good idea to send copies of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth to all schools, with then…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/10/2007

Eli’s post on D.C. taxicab fare proposals comes out strongly for the zone system over metered cabs. As a person who used to take…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 10/10/2007

A new report by the International Trade & Agriculture Policy Council (IPC) examines the “early lessons” from U.S. and EU biofuels policy. The report’s…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 10/09/2007

For decades, the “rack” (wholesale) price of ethanol was higher than that of regular unleaded gasoline. This was the case even during late 2005,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/09/2007

On a note related to Jerry Brito’s post on “L’iPhone” at TechLiberation.com today, I’d like to point out Thomas Hazlett’s “How the…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/09/2007

One of the problems of letting the Nanny State tell you what you can put into your body is that it often tells you to…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/09/2007

The New York Times today detailed New York regulators’ plan to “help” insurers meet their obligations. By forcing them to take less profit…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/09/2007

The Progressive Policy Institute recently posted a new paper, “The Truth About Middle Class Jobs” by Stephen J. Rose. Rose, a prominent labor…

• By: Iain Murray
• 10/09/2007

It is quite possible the US Congress will follow, on environmental policy at least. The UK's Treasury minister, Alistair Darling, has just announced a raft…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 10/09/2007

The Washington Post carries a…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/08/2007

Bjorn Lomborg has an insightful op ed on global warming in Sunday’s Washington Post.  He discusses how global warming regulations, such as carbon emissions restrictions, fail to provide as…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/08/2007

Andrea Peyser had an interesting column this weekend in The New York Post about how wealthy parents are billing the public for their children…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/08/2007

The common claim that America is the “land of the free” continues to look ever more hollow.  The latest of many targets of the authoritarian…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/08/2007

Yesterday, Costa Rica’s voters approved ratification of the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). This is good news for most Costa Rican consumers and…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/08/2007

In The Wall Street Journal, Edwin Meese and William P. Clark, who served under President Reagan, respectively, as Attorney General and National Security Adviser,…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/08/2007

You've got to love the state of Oklahoma. To "protect" its citizens from organizing against the established political order, Oklahoma bars out-of-state residents from gathering…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/05/2007

Michelle, Excellent points about the lack of correlation in Australia between global warming and forest fires. And, for an in-depth look at what’s really…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/05/2007

Chris was on Hannity & Colmes last night, and you’re going to want to watch all the way through to the end to hear his…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/05/2007

As I noted yesterday, Sens. DeMint and Vitter provided the questions that most needed asking at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s second hearing on…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 10/05/2007

Today’s New York Times, noting that crude oil recently hit $83.32 a barrel on Sept. 20 and stayed above $80 a barrel for the next…