The Open Market Blog

• By: Doug Bandow
• 01/08/2008

Government always has been pretty good in handling blunt, simple tasks: bombing cities into ruins, for instance. But if any nuance or sophistication is required,…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 01/08/2008

Americans like to believe that they are a free people, certainly freer than the Europeans. And the U.S. economy has been much more vibrant than…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/07/2008

Last week John did an excellent job of putting recent unemployment numbers in historical perspective. Some market observers seem to be freaking out because…

• By: Christine Hall
• 01/07/2008

Guess what? Now you can run out and buy some eco-friendly fashion. Today’s DC Examiner explains how some designers are trying to make clothes…

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/07/2008

European governments are paying close attention to negotiations in Abuja, Nigeria, where Russian officials are trying to access the host country’s sizable natural gas…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 01/07/2008

There has been a subtle yet important shift in the rhetoric of some global warming alarmists, whose industry has thrived for years on a disciplined…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 01/04/2008

I appeared on CNBC earlier today arguing in favor of sovereign wealth funds. (Which are foreign government-owned investment companies.) For whatever it’s worth, you can…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/04/2008

CEI’s general counsel Sam Kazman was quoted in the new edition of Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Calendar. If you’ve picked one up from Freedom Forum,…

• By: John Berlau
• 01/04/2008

Today's jobs survey points to slowing growth, but we are still far from a recession. And as my CEI colleagues and I have said before,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/04/2008

In his weekly DC Examiner column, Tim Carney highlights a specific example of the “the conflicts of interest, ulterior motives and opportunities for corruption…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/04/2008

As usual, politicians are complaining about the fact that 47 million Americans supposedly don’t have health insurance. But many young people just don’t need health…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/04/2008

In its lead editorial today, “The greening of globalisation,” the Financial Times looks at a potential new wave of trade protectionism that could arise…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/03/2008

In poor African countries like Lesotho, “H.I.V.-infected children are offered exemplary treatment, while children suffering from much simpler-to-treat diseases are left untreated, sometimes to…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/03/2008

Our old pal Jay Ambrose has a great column today on the recent decision by Congress to outlaw the sale of traditional incandescent light…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 01/03/2008

I really hate to be morbid—but I can’t help but comment on a few news items that I came across on the “greening” of…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 01/03/2008

You get what you pay for, goes the adage, and it certainly is true when it comes to nationalized health care. Britons thought that they…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/03/2008

Hans Bader, one of OpenMarket.org’s top bloggers, is now available in Spanish. The Atlantic-Pacific Alliance has translated Han’s recent post “Feds to Patients: Drop Dead…

• By: John Berlau
• 01/03/2008

On New Year's Day, the SEC suffered a defeat, and I hailed it as a victory. Nothing unusual about that scenario, except this was not…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/02/2008

It’s official, oil has broken the $100 a barrel threshold. Why are prices so high and what can we do about it? Our very…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/02/2008

The head of the Virginia bar association is concerned because Virginia, which once had the highest percentage of lawyer-legislators in America, now ranks behind…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 01/02/2008

Our fine colleagues at Bureaucrash have long sold a t-shirt reading “Smoking is Healthier than Fascism.” Now, Illinois has apparently become the first state…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/02/2008

In yesterday’s New York Times, John Tierney in his “Findings” column has another excellent science-related article — this time about the tendency to assess…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/02/2008

Since we’ve been lamenting the incipient demise of the incandescent light (Bulb 1.0), I’d say it’s a good time to review The Simpleton’s Guide…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/02/2008

This blog gets much of its traffic and readers by being linked to by other blogs. The friendly blog that links to this one most…

• By: Hans Bader
• 12/31/2007

A program in Michigan that saved 1500 lives over 18 months by maintaining checklists on patient care to prevent hospital infections has been shut down by…

• By: Hans Bader
• 12/31/2007

The Washington, D.C. school system recently spent tens of millions of dollars to buy sophisticated new boilers to heat the schools.  Then it allowed them to break…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 12/31/2007

Trying to "fix" health care is not easy, since it's a bizarre amalgam of private provision of insurance and public spending and regulation, completely distorted…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 12/28/2007

In his Examiner column today, Tim Carney — with a nod to Bastiat — takes the company founded by Thomas Edison to task…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 12/28/2007

According to Bill McKibben in an op-ed in The Washington Post, the biggest news of the year is that Jim Hansen has spoken. According…