The Open Market Blog

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 05/15/2007

Rev. Jerry Falwell died today. To say the least, his brand of morality did not win him many friends among libertarians. He made some inane…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/14/2007

“A bipartisan trade deal” is touted on the U.S. Trade Representative’s website and is on the front page of the House Ways and Means…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 05/14/2007

The biggest piece of business news this morning is the sale of 80 percent of Chrysler to a private equity firm, Cerberus Capital. As…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/11/2007

Zimbabwe’s likely appointment as head of the UN Sustainable Development Commission (see below) bring to mind a recent Bureaucrash operation. On April 20th,…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/11/2007

Yesterday, the Administration and the Democratic leadership made a deal to inject stringent and enforceable labor standards into bilateral agreements with Peru and Panama,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/11/2007

Iain passes on the only-at-the-UN news that Zimbabwe is about to be made the head of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/10/2007

Bob Novak’s column in the Washington Times (column not online) and elsewhere today tells of the cold shoulder Colombian President Alvaro Uribe received from…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/09/2007

CEI gets a passing mention today in The Washington Times, but the story in question is really AFF’s moment to shine: a profile…

• By: Fran Smith
• 05/09/2007

The United Nations has just published a report that sets out some of the challenges and implications of the widespread production of biofuels. And…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 05/09/2007

Speaking of gas prices, from Wisconsin comes a story that illustrates just how stupid government can be in trying to meddle with prices…