The Open Market Blog

• 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,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 09/25/2006

Government is often said to be bedeviled by “unintended consequences.” That doesn’t mean that the consequences cannot be foreseen. Two great examples…

• By: John Berlau
• 09/25/2006

An op-ed I wrote for last Sunday’s Washington Times talked about the battle over the interchange fees that banks and credit card companies charge to retailers. The…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/22/2006

You really have to give it to the U.S. Census Bureau. Even when they prove they’re pathologically unable to keep track of important computer…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2006

The National Indian Gaming Commission has recently been getting hot under the collar over a vital matter of native gambling policy –…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/19/2006

Following up on Fred’s post, here’s an even better headline: “Thai PM cancels U.N. speech after coup” ran the headline in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 09/19/2006

Today the Senate approved for the second time the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement, another in the now lengthy list of…