Clark Neily “I have a theory: Qualified immunity has already been bitten by one of the walkers in the Walking Dead, and it’s in the zombification process.” So said David French…
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Nicholas Anthony Governments around the world are weighing whether to launch central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. But are CBDCs even a good idea? That was one of the questions NPR…
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Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: The More Resources We Consume, the More We Have by Marian L. Tupy, explains that globalization supercharges…
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Nicholas Anthony President Biden’s “war on junk fees” is only picking up steam. On May 9, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing to focus on…
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Clark Packard Today, the Biden administration announced it is quadrupling tariffs on imported electric vehicles (EVs) from China, while also imposing new tariffs on steel and aluminum, certain critical minerals,…
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A New Heritage “Backgrounder” Addresses the Mix of Doctors, But Not the Overall Supply
Jeffrey A. Singer Last March, a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) projected a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians, including as many as 40,000 primary care physicians. The…
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Ryan Bourne Today the Cato Institute publishes a new book that I’ve edited, The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy. The multi‐author volume*…
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People v. Armstrong Brief: Marijuana Odor Can’t Be Probable Cause Where It’s Legal
Matthew Cavedon On October 8, 2020, the Detroit police smelled marijuana. That was their reason for ordering Jeffery Armstrong out of a parked car he was sitting in, leading them to…
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Michael F. Cannon Rena Conti, Richard Frank, and David Cutler recently published a very useful piece in the New England Journal of Medicine under the title, “The Myth of the Free Market…
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House Judiciary Committee Report Documents More Evidence of Government Coercion of Social Media Companies
Brent Skorup For decades, US government officials have secretly coerced and prodded media distributors into withholding news and information, sometimes even big secrets and coverups. Historically, government officials dubbed this…