The Open Market Blog

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/06/2007

What is more harmful to children’s’ health than tobacco smoke? The answer may be irresponsible parents. In Oregon, a state where the unemployment rate hovers…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/02/2007

Private health care is bad. Public health care will be cheaper and better quality. How do we know this? Proponents of universal care would claim…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/01/2007

I always worry when a government body starts to sound philosophic. As Ivan noted in his post, the Department of the Interior is struggling…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/31/2007

As I wrote about earlier in the week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had been talking about banning exclusivity deals between landlords and cable…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/29/2007

Halloween will be a little scarier this year. Along with the other horrifying regulations on this Wednesday's schedule we can now…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/26/2007

There is no McDonald's in Ethiopia. Perhaps if there was, 3000000 people would not die this year from malnutrition. In a world where poverty…