The Open Market Blog

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/26/2007

From a free-market perspective, the only redeeming social value in the Bush Administration’s biofuels initiative is the proposal to lift the 54-cents-a-gallon tariff and 2.5…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/26/2007

I recently debated a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) activist on global warming and the future of the U.S. electricity supply. The activist made the…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/26/2007

We often hear that global warming is a global problem that requires a global solution. The developing world, on the other hand, wants none…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/26/2007

Senator Inhofe makes some very pertinent and often ignored points in his Human Events article today: The fact of the matter is that the…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/26/2007

Some revealing quotations in an excellent BBC Radio investigation into the Stern Report: The IPCC is not going to talk about tipping points; it’s…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/25/2007

According to news reports, President George Bush will ask Congress to renew fast-track trade authority — perhaps as soon as next week. The Trade…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/25/2007

There’s even more talk now about alternative energy sources — spurred by President Bush’s State of the Union address where he said: We must…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/25/2007

“Tricks and traps.” Those were the terms used to describe credit card industry practices to snare vulnerable and lower-income people into a vicious cycle of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/25/2007

While we at Open Market know that there's nothing inherently bad about fast food, we're still willing to believe that an outragous stunt like…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/25/2007

At the DC premiere of Mine Your Own Business yesterday evening, I spoke with protesters who insisted that the 96% of the citizens of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/25/2007

The PETA animal cruelty trial is getting started in North Carolina this week, and the Center for Consumer Freedom is on the case:…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/24/2007

We at Open Market HQ just received an email from John Coequyt at Greenpeace, responding to the President’s State of the Union remarks about global…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 01/24/2007

In this post, I comment on President Bush's remarks, in the State of the Union address, about energy. Although a few nods to the old…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/24/2007

Climate Change seen fanning conflict and terrorism runs the Reuters headline. The premise is that people will fight over resources made scarcer by global…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/24/2007

June Arunga and Billy Kahora of the International Policy Network have a new paper out about the cellphone revolution in Kenya. The tale is…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/24/2007

In a nice display of bipartisanship, Iain Dale has a post quoting Britain’s former Labour party Home Secretary David Blunkett approvingly. Blunkett says: “…The…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/24/2007

The President’s proposals for energy in the State of the Union address are wrong-headed. He proposes to put the boon in boondoggle by increasing the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/23/2007

That the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a far-left political activist group is hardly news. Yet the point needs to be made repeatedly, given…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/23/2007

The Progressive Majority today reports that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth has been banned by the The Federal Way School District in Washington…

• By: John Berlau
• 01/23/2007

Consumer Reports’ retraction last week of its flawed testing of infant car seats puts in question the magazine’s credibility as an unbiased product evaluator.

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 01/22/2007

It is quite typical for pressure lobbies to claim that their issue has been provided a mandate by any given election outcome even where, as…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/22/2007

With oil prices currently at a 19-month low and heading back to $50 a barrel, this is an excellent discussion of the causes…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 01/22/2007

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a feature (link here for subscribers) article discussing DuPont’s renewed efforts on crop biotechnology. DuPont “announced…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/19/2007

Al Gore’s movie increases Informational and Reputational Cascades based on Availability bias… Hey, don’t complain to me, but to Oxford University’s Future of Humanity…

• By: Iain Murray
• 01/19/2007

The scandal of the US ethanol program – a mandate, a subsidy and a trade barrier all rolled into one – is now having dire…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/19/2007

It had to happen. Jokes about Starbucks’ ubiquity have become, well, ubiquitous, much like the coffee chain itself — so it was only a…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 01/19/2007

Last year, global biotech crop acreage increased more than 13 percent from 2005. By year-end 2006, 10.3 million farmers in 22 countries were growing biotech…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/19/2007

Jack Shafer ponders the case for abolishing FCC in Slate’s blog.  He wonders what things would be like if the philosophy of FCC’s control…

• By: Fran Smith
• 01/18/2007

The title says it all: The Improving State of the World: Why We’re Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet. Read…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/18/2007

The decision by the Board of British Petroleum to accelerate the switch from the current chairman, John Brown (Lord Brown), is indicative of a growing…