The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/05/2009

I run an ongoing trade deficit with my local grocery store. I import food from them every week. They have never purchased a thing from…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/02/2009

Roberto Zabrido, a government official in Spain, is “adamant that the Happy Meal and its ilk pose a risk.” The solution? Legislation!…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/30/2009

If you put chlortetracycline powder in your farm animals’ drinking water to prevent disease, please be aware that a new federal rule now allows you…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/27/2009

Non-price costs such as crowds and long lines should be factored into your shopping habits. Otherwise you just might be getting ripped off.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/23/2009

The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby wrote a wonderful column yesterday that highlights the inconsistent stance of many conservatives when it comes to immigration.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/20/2009

The Code of Federal Regulations contains 28 sections on food containers. Metal, glass, plastic, flexible, rigid – if you can put food in it, there…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/18/2009

FCC regulators want to provide wider and cheaper broadband access by subsidizing it, raising taxes, and forcing network owners to share their network infrastructure with…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/18/2009

Residents whose lawns are taller than eight inches risk $250 per day fines. The city council voted last night on raising the fines to $1,000…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/17/2009

Over at Investor's Business Daily, Wayne Crews and I make the case against a Value Added Tax. Policy makers have been flirting with the idea…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/17/2009

The ban, due to take effect in 2011, has not been repealed outright. But, in response to public outcry, it has been delayed.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/16/2009

Transparency is a good start. But the goal should be to not have government bailing out politically favored companies in the first place.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/16/2009

Yes, larger snow globes probably violate the TSA’s three-ounce limit for liquids. But they are not bombs. They are, in fact, snow globes.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/13/2009

Toymakers presumably choose brass because it is cheap, durable, and better than alternative materials. Now they will have to turn to those second-best materials despite…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/12/2009

In Japan, it is illegal for men to have a waist larger than 33.5 inches. The limit for women is 35.4 inches. Those in violation…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/10/2009

Every dollar and every hour of researchers' time spent on lessening cancer risks from cell phones is money and time not spent curing heart disease,…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/10/2009

OSHA has published a proposed rule to regulate one of the greatest threats to mankind: combustible dust.

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/05/2009

Today's American Spectator Online has a piece by CEI VP Wayne Crews and I on curbing Congressional abuse of unfunded mandates.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/04/2009

A new local ordinance in Dudley, Massachusetts makes it illegal to more than three cats without a license. Coaseian bargaining might be a better solution…

Consumer Freedom

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/03/2009

At HPI's request, the International Trade Administration will continue to add anti-dumping duties to the price of its competitors' Chinese-made ironing tables. Sorry, consumers.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/02/2009

This month's issue of Info Tech & Telecom News contains an article by yours truly on certain states' attempts to collect sales taxes from out-of-state…

Regulatory Reform