Competitive Enterprise Institute
Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • About
  • Policy
  • Products
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • About
  • Policy
  • Products
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Subscribe
  • Donate

Sign up below to receive the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

Sign Up

About CEI

  • Press Room
  • Team
  • Careers
  • Internships
  • Our History
  • Julian L. Simon Award Winners
  • Research Independence
  • Prometheus Society
  • Ways to Support CEI

Request a policy briefing from a CEI expert.

Learn More

All Policy Areas

  • Capitalism
    • Antitrust
    • Subsidies and Bailouts
    • Capitalism and Free Enterprise
  • Deregulation
    • Banking and Finance
    • Consumer Freedom
    • Labor and Employment
    • Regulatory Reform
    • Trade and International
  • Energy and Environment
    • Chemical Risk
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Lands and Wildlife
    • Water and Air Quality
  • Innovation
    • Healthcare
    • Tech and Telecom
    • Transportation
  • Law and Litigation
    • CEI Litigation
    • Free Speech
    • Government Transparency
    • Legal Studies
    • Property Rights
  • Housing
    • Environmental Housing Policy
    • Federal Housing Policy
    • Housing Finance Policy
    • State & Local Housing Policy
  • Government Affairs

Sign up below to receive the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

Sign Up

All Products

  • Research
    • Fast Track
    • Issue Analysis
    • OnPoint
    • Profiles in Capitalism
    • 10,000 Commandments
    • Agenda for Congress
    • Books
    • Individual Studies
  • Newsletters
    • CEI Planet
    • The Bulletin
    • The Surge
    • Great Capitalism
  • Outreach
    • Coalition Letters
    • Legal Briefs
    • Congressional Testimony
    • Regulatory Comments
  • Podcasts
    • Free the Economy
    • How The World Works

Sign up below to receive the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

Sign Up

All Events

  • Press Room
  • Team
  • Careers
  • Internships
  • Our History
  • Julian L. Simon Award Winners
  • Research Independence
  • Prometheus Society
  • Ways to Support CEI

Sign up below to receive the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

Join Us

Support CEI

  • Give Online
  • Wire Transfer
  • Estate Planning
  • Donate Crypto
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram

The Open Market Blog

The Open Market Blog

Search Filters

Issue Areas

Masthead

Publisher

  • Kent Lassman

Managing Editor

  • Ryan Young

Assistant Managing Editor

  • Ryan Smith

Associate Editors

  • Travis Burk
  • Christine Hall

Contributors

  • Daren Bakst
  • John Berlau
  • Wayne Crews
  • Sean Higgins
  • Sam Kazman
  • Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • Ben Lieberman
  • Jessica Melugin
  • Richard Morrison
  • Iain Murray
  • Alex Reinauer
  • Ryan Young
  • Paige Lambermont
  • Steve Swedberg
  • Jacob Tomasulo

CEI Makes the Case for Freedom Every Day

Sign up below for the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Blog

Global warming email scandal: Will the real Kevin Trenberth please stand up?

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/26/2009

It has become evident that the planet is running a “fever” and the prognosis is that it is apt to get much worse. “Warming of…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Post Promotes Pig Pandemic Panic . . . and promotes and promotes . . .

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/25/2009

Following in an unpublished letter to the editor of the Washington Post.

Blog

Lack of global warming is “hot” issue

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/23/2009

“Climatologists baffled by Global Warming Time-Out” declares the headline in Germany’s Spiegel online. “Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Flu Report Nov. 21 and my piece on the epidemic peak in NRO.

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/20/2009

“Swine flu has killed 540 kids, sickened 22 million Americans,” screamed USA Today’s page 1 headline, sub-headed “CDC: Cases, Deaths are Unprecedented.” “Swine flu cases…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

“Not fit for combat,” my article in Forbes

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/19/2009

It’s not exactly what Pogo meant when he said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” But it works out that way.

Blog

Not sure what DDT does to birds, but I know how it helps people

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/19/2009

There’s been much in the news lately about the brown pelican being delisted as an endangered species since its recovery from the effects of…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Obvious answer to electric car “range anxiety” – gov’t handouts!

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/18/2009

What’s the greatest fear of the owner of a purely electric car? Running out of juice, of course! Not even a tiny gasoline engine to…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Flu Watch Nov. 14 – What Swine Flu ISN’T Doing This Week

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/13/2009

Yes, even as the media twist and turn the numbers in the new CDC estimate (about which I’ll be publishing an article) the evidence continues…

Blog

Yes, I will be posting about the new CDC swine flu estimates

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/13/2009

At a glance, though, the estimates look okay it’s the spin and the lack of perspective that I have trouble with. And while the media…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Not without honor, save in his own home . . .

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/12/2009

I’m a hit in the Czech Republic, a land renowned for beautiful architecture and even more beautiful women. Well, at least I got mentioned in…

Blog

The government forgot about hiring the vet

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/11/2009

With unemployment up yet again, it must be reassuring to Americans that job-seeking veterans are being helped so much by the government, and by all…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Flu Watch Nov. 7 – What Swine Flu Isn’t Doing This Week

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/07/2009

Well, what swine flu isn’t doing this week is apparently less than what it wasn’t doing last week. In other words, it appears to have…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Just what IS in those enormous health care bills?

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/04/2009

With the House version stacked bigger than Dolly Parton at about 2,000 pages, anybody who says they know for certain is lying. It’s not just…

Healthcare

Blog

Poll shows little faith in government, media

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/03/2009

A new Harvard poll, in a ranking of 13 leadership categories, found Congress and the media ranked 11th and 12th respectively. They probably would have…

Blog

Swine flu “survivor” speaks out on media hysteria

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/03/2009

From a letter to the editor of the Washington Post: It is ridiculous that The Post has dedicated so much of the A section…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Flu Watch Oct. 31 – What swine flu ISN’T doing this week

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/30/2009

It’s Halloween, and the monster at the door is swine flu. Or so we’re told. Yet again. And people respond accordingly. “I’ve never seen it…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

NY Guv orders state of panic over swine flu

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/29/2009

Emulating the Obama Administration, New York Gov. David Paterson has “declared a state of emergency, saying a recent rise in swine flu cases has created…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Here’s the House health care reform bill, catering to the public’s right to know

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/29/2009

Everything you need to know, right here. And the best part is, it’s only 1,990 pages long! Print it out and read it during…

Healthcare

Blog

Why did Obama declared a swine flu “emergency” with no emergency?

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/28/2009

As I note in my Investor’s Business Daily article, swine flu cases in the last seven months, according to the CDC, equal about four…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Obama’s swine flu “emergency” declaration

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/25/2009

It’s a bunch of hog droppings. Watch for my upcoming article. In the meantime, read here on why we should not panic.

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Poll shows belief in man-made warming down, but why?

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/23/2009

A new poll shows a sharp decline over the last year in the percentage of Americans who see solid evidence that global temperatures are…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Widening a highway is both an environmental AND civil rights issue?

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/23/2009

Was a time when “civil rights” meant things like equal opportunities in employment and schooling for racial and ethnic minorities. And “environmental” meant something affecting…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Fumento yells “Sooo-eeeee!” on Liddy

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/21/2009

I bent G. Gordon Liddy’s ears back today on his radio show (easy to find them, given his lack of hair) on my current…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Weekly Flu Watch IV – What swine flu ISN’T doing

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/18/2009

Total deaths since Aug. 30 from “Influenza and Pneumonia-Associated” illness are 2,029 reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web site…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

“The Pandemic Is Political,” my article in Forbes Online

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/18/2009

As evidence continues to mount that swine flu is more of a piglet than a raging razorback, why isn’t curiosity mounting as to why the…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Web help wanted for Fumento.com

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/14/2009

No, you won’t get GI Bill benefits but then again you don’t have to get shot at, either. It’s for my website Fumento.com. But I…

Blog

Windmills for spite

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/11/2009

Clean Energy Splits France: It's Carbon vs. Countryside in Environmental Battle Over Plan for Windmills Near Coastal Shrine." So reads the Washington Post headline. But…

Energy and Environment

Blog

No “Weekly Flu Watch” this week

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/11/2009

See instead my article “Swine Flu: the Real Threat Is Panic,” from the New York Post .

Consumer Freedom

Blog

How did the President’s Council swine flu scenario measure up?

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/11/2009

Sorta depends on who you ask. The read about the flu in the mainstream media, you would think men are going through the streets with…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

World’s largest country reports first swine flu death

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/06/2009

Six months into the swine flu outbreak China, with a population of over 1.3 billion or a fifth of the word’s population, has just…

Trade and International

Pagination

  1. Go to first page
  2. Go to previous page
  3. Select page
  4. 1
  5. …
  6. 3
  7. 4
  8. 5
  9. 6
  10. 7
  11. Go to next page
  12. Go to last page

show entries per page:

  • 6
  • 50
  • 100

Masthead

Publisher

  • Kent Lassman

Managing Editor

  • Ryan Young

Assistant Managing Editor

  • Ryan Smith

Associate Editors

  • Travis Burk
  • Christine Hall

Contributors

  • Daren Bakst
  • John Berlau
  • Wayne Crews
  • Sean Higgins
  • Sam Kazman
  • Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • Ben Lieberman
  • Jessica Melugin
  • Richard Morrison
  • Iain Murray
  • Alex Reinauer
  • Ryan Young
  • Paige Lambermont
  • Steve Swedberg
  • Jacob Tomasulo

CEI Makes the Case for Freedom Every Day

Sign up below for the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

  • Home
  • About
  • Policy
  • News
  • Products
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Donate

Special Projects

  • Ten Thousand Commandments
  • Eye on FTC
  • Children Online Safety Tools
  • Net Neutrality 101
1310 L Street NW, 7th Floor Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-331-1010

Follow Us:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
Competitive Enterprise Institute

©2026 Competitive Enterprise Institute | Privacy Policy