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Postal Reforms Abroad
Chris Edwards With a bloated cost structure and falling demand for its products, the US Postal Service (USPS) is in…
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Autonomy, Informed Consent, and the Right to Self-Medicate
Jeffrey A. Singer Below is an excerpt of the new book, Your Body, Your Health Care (Cato Institute 2025) by…
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Postal Service Metrics
Chris Edwards Commenting on possible US Postal Service (USPS) privatization a few months ago, President Donald Trump said, “it’s an…
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The Senate Plan Is a Trap—House Lawmakers Shouldn’t Fall for It
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On April 5, the Senate approved a modified budget framework, which is a betrayal of…
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High Protective Tariffs Have Been Short-Lived in American History
Joe Bishop-Henchmen President Donald Trump joins Presidents John Quincy Adams (1828), John Tyler (1842), Benjamin Harrison (1890), and Herbert Hoover…
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Introduction to the New Cato Book Your Body, Your Health Care
Jeffrey A. Singer Below is an excerpt of the new book Your Body, Your Health Care (Cato Institute 2025) by…
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Bastiat’s “Candlemakers’ Petition” Reveals the Folly of Protectionism, Tariffs
Michael Chapman Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) (Image: LefontQ on Wikimedia Commons.) To understand the folly of protectionism, including the use of…
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Benjamin Anderson (1949): The Crowning Financial Folly of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Alan Reynolds (Photo: historyonthenet.com) Benjamin M. Anderson was a legendary Austrian economist at Chase National Bank from 1929 to 1939,…
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Your Body Is Not Government Property
Jeffrey A. Singer Today, the Cato Institute is releasing my new book, Your Body, Your Health Care—a defense of your…
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The Mysterious Transformation of Peter Navarro
Thomas A. Firey The bitter reaction by economists and Wall Street to the Trump administration’s new tariff regime has put…
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