The Open Market Blog

• By: John Berlau
• 10/12/2006

There’s a saying that the most revealing part of Academy Awards speeches is who isn’t thanked. There is often a similar truism about…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/12/2006

Cato’s David Boaz and AFF’s David Kirby have a fascinating new study out on trends among the voting public,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/11/2006

One of capitalism’s greatest virtues is the wide array of preferences it allows entrepreneurs to cater to—including the preferences of those who claim to disdain…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/11/2006

John Berlau, head of CEI’s Center for Entrepreneurship, hails the contributions of Nobel Prize in Economics recipient Edmund Phelps in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/11/2006

Tim Carney, former Warren Brookes fellow at CEI, takes a look at Mark Foley’s political contributions and finds he has been a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/06/2006

Reuters is finally catching up with CEI’s own Tim Carney. In a story today, Tim McLaughlin reports that political contributions by the biggest Wall…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/06/2006

In what has to be one of this week’s worst excuses for good news, the Congressional Budget Office announced that the federal budget…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/05/2006

But would Progressives against Progress endorse this great invention?…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/03/2006

Yesterday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued an executive order commanding businesses seeking federally-funded disaster relief administered by the City of New…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/29/2006

A Financial Times article today points out how difficult U.S. reform of its agricultural programs will be with the collapse of the WTO’s Doha…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/28/2006

All that stuff written about early admission college programs being discriminatory, here’s a new wrinkle on possible “early admission” to sports…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/27/2006

The Deutsche Oper in Berlin on Monday cancelled a production of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” because of fears of inciting Muslim protesters to violence. There was…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/27/2006

I don’t know how on in the world I end up on some loony email lists, but they’re at least good for the occasional chuckle.

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/27/2006

As often happens to successful ventures, Starbucks now faces critics who challenge the company’s leasing contracts, which specify competitors may not occupy the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/26/2006

Wouldn’t you think that a reader’s letter correcting factual errors in a newspaper article wouldn’t be edited to delete the principal correction? Well,…