No one can predict how tariffs will play out or how severe their effects will be on everything from consumer goods to the broader economy. But investors have gotten a…
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Michael F. Cannon A hot-off-the-presses report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) finds plenty of excessive Medicare spending for Congress to cut—in large part because the program sets excessive…
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Norbert Michel I’ve written several articles on the punitive Credit Card Competition Act and why its policies are misguided. It’s based on a myth that the “big credit card companies”…
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Colleen Hroncich When talking to the founder of a microschool that’s called Spyrja Academy, the first question kind of asks itself. “I’m a huge fan of Old Norse literature, like…
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Patrick G. Eddington A few weeks ago, my colleague Clark Neily suggested to those of us on Cato’s Criminal Justice team that we should strongly consider experimenting with the use…
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Nicholas Anthony More than one million Americans are about to face a new level of financial surveillance. The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that the…
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Adam N. Michel In the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress placed a $10,000 limit on the amount of state and local taxes (SALT), such as income and…
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Today at 2:00 PM ET: Discussing the Dangers of the Current Policy Baseline Gimmick
Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia Today, March 13, at 2:00 PM, I’ll be joining a virtual event hosted by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) alongside Marc Goldwein…
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Brian Doherty Ludwig von Mises, a foundational figure of modern libertarianism, was also for decades a hero of the American right. In George H. Nash’s magisterial 1976 history The Conservative…
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Where can investors find a safe haven during a period of market uncertainty? Personally, I think it’s as simple as focusing on the stocks managing to display bullish technical structures…