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Investing
Property Rights and Economic Progress
Jeffrey Miron Does a government definition of property rights promote economic progress? A recent paper suggests yes: Cadastres—records of landownership—provide…
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Investing
New Cato Briefing Paper Warns of President’s Unilateral Authorities to Raise Tariffs
Clark Packard and Scott Lincicome Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution grants to Congress the power to “lay…
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Economy
Join Ars in DC for infrastructure, cocktails, and spycraft on October 29
After a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October and descending in force on…
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Investing
New Report: Big Government Means High Taxes on Everyone, Not Just the Rich
Adam N. Michel The United States is at a fiscal policy crossroads. If federal spending remains on its current upward…
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Investing
FEMA’s Role in Hurricanes
Chris Edwards Hurricanes Helene and Milton have now passed, leaving trails of destruction. Some politicians are using the disasters as…
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Economy
Archive.org, a repository storing the entire history of the Internet, has been hacked
Archive.org, possibly one of the only entities to preserve the entire history of the Internet, was recently compromised in a…
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Economy
Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test
If 2022 was the year AI image generators went mainstream, 2024 has arguably been the year that AI video synthesis…
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Investing
Hayek, Peru, and The Road to Serfdom
Ian Vásquez (Screenshot: Amazon.com) This fall marks both the 50th anniversary of economist Friedrich Hayek winning the Nobel Prize and…
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Investing
States May Liberalize CPA Licensing
Marc Joffe As I’ve discussed in this space previously, state licensing requirements are contributing to the shortage of Certified Public Accountants…
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Economy
Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices
Researchers have unearthed two sophisticated toolsets that a nation-state hacking group—possibly from Russia—used to steal sensitive data stored on air-gapped…
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