The Open Market Blog

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/28/2011

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/28/2011

OPINION TIMOTHY B. LEE: "FreeBieber Campaign is Not Afraid of Justin Bieber or His Lawyers" "In 2007, a 12-year-old Justin Bieber began…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/27/2011

OPINION NICHOLAS KRISTOF: "Crony Capitalism Comes Home" "Whenever I write about Occupy Wall Street, some readers ask me if the protesters really…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/26/2011

OPINION DAVID KRAVETS: "Patriot Act Turns Ten, With No Signs of Retirement" "The USA Patriot Act, the law granting the government vast…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/25/2011

OPINION A. BARTON HINKLE: "Obama's Great Depression" "Barack Obama has joined George W. Bush in a dubious category. They are the only…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/20/2011

OPINION ROBERT LAWSON: "Medical Ethics Dilemma" "Let's suppose it is unambiguously true that a swine flu outbreak would save net lives (or…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/19/2011

OPINION JACK BARUTH: "Sign Up For E-Z Pass, Get a Free Privacy-Invading Webcam" "It’s a common misconception that the 'E-Z Pass' automated…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/18/2011

OPINION WILLIAM D. COHAN: "Occupy Wall Street Loves Capitalism's Pearls" "It's no surprise that Occupy Wall Street's preferred methods for getting out…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/13/2011

OPINION VIRGINIA POSTREL: "Web Bone-Marrow Bounty Takes on Paid-Donor Ban" "Amit Gupta is in a terrible situation, but he’s also lucky. He’s…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/12/2011

OPINION GLEN WHITMAN: "Pan Am and the Economics of Hot Flight Attendants" "For an economist, the most fascinating aspect of Pan Am…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/11/2011

OPINION ANNIE LOWREY: "Why Small Businesses Aren't Innovative" "The stereotype of the small-businessperson as a start-up innovator is pervasive. But it's not…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/07/2011

OPINION JEFFREY A. TUCKER: "Steve Jobs and the Beautification of Capitalism" "What made Jobs's tenure at Apple great is that he wedded…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/07/2011

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/06/2011

OPINION NATIONAL REVIEW EDITORIAL: "Truth in Budgeting" "As Americans struggle to balance their checkbooks in the real world, lawmakers in Washington continue…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/05/2011

OPINION KONSTANTIN KAKAES: "Some Crazy (And Not So Crazy) Ideas For Sending a Spacesehip to Another Solar System" "Space is about to…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/04/2011

OPINION JOHN F. COGAN and JOHN B. TAYLOR: "Stimulus Has Been a Washington Job Killer" "Temporary, targeted tax reductions and increases in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/03/2011

OPINION NEAL STEPHENSON: "Innovation Starvation" "Believing we have all the technology we’ll ever need, we seek to draw attention to its destructive…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/30/2011

OPINION TIM CAVANAUGH: "Steven Chu, Oh Where Are You?" "Sphinx-like Secretary of Energy Steven Chu may or may not be getting closer…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/30/2011

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/29/2011

OPINION ROGER SIMON: "The Four Laws of Politics" "'So what do you think of Perry?' the guy asks me. I look at…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/28/2011

OPINION RICHARD EPSTEIN: "Obama's Jobs Bill: Read It and Weep" "The dim news about the current economic situation has prompted the Obama…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/27/2011

OPINION GENE HEALY: "Time to Abolish DHS" "Over the past decade, homeland security grants have been used in an apparent attempt to…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/26/2011

OPINION SIMON JOHNSON - "Who Will Eclipse the U.S.?" "According to Voltaire, the Roman Empire fell 'because all things fall'. It…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/23/2011

OPINION LOS ANGELES TIMES EDITORIAL: "Dealing with Day Laborers" "Redondo Beach has spent nearly a decade defending a misguided 1986 city ordinance…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/23/2011

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/21/2011

OPINION Jacob Sullum: "The Broken Planet Fallacy" "When Solyndra went belly up last month, less than a year after it started making…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/20/2011

OPINION Dahlia Lithwick: "A Killer Issue: Republicans Like Rick Perry Are Skeptical of Everything the Government Does---Except When it Kills People" "In…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/19/2011

OPINION David Rittgers: "Abolish the Department of Homeland Security." "George W. Bush was right before he was wrong. Mr. Bush initially opposed…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/15/2011

OPINION Al Griffin: "COMMUNITY COMMENT: Blame Bush-Era Law for Decline of Postal Service" "The Postal Service is in trouble because of a…