The Open Market Blog

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/29/2011

When the cartoon strips realize the humor inherent in “green energy technology,” can victory be far away?…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/22/2010

The Washington Post‘s “Senate Panel Ban Seen as Double Standard” deals with the latest attempt to eliminate so-called “conflicts of interest” between appointees to…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 11/22/2010

Reading William Gibson’s recent novel, Zero History, I came across an interesting passage: There were cameras literally everywhere in London. … He remembered Bigend saying…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 11/05/2010

In our half-political, half-private world, there are a growing number of public-private partnerships.  Almost nothing in the current world can be done without implicit or…