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Investing
Bootleggers and Baptists: Protective Labor Laws Edition
Jeffrey Miron Do government policies result from good intentions or from the self-interest of those who expect to benefit? Often,…
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Investing
Coming Budget Debates and How Congress Should Navigate Them
Dominik Lett Following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Republicans’ mammoth $4 trillion tax and spending law,…
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Investing
Back to School, Federal Overreach Edition
Neal McCluskey With Labor Day behind us, we are in full back-to-school swing. For the rest of the week, Cato…
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Investing
Federal Judge: Trump Regime Violated Posse Comitatus Act
Patrick G. Eddington Northern District of California Judge Charles Breyer today issued a 52-page opinion and order finding that President…
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Investing
When a Constitutional Right Is a Petty Exception
Mike Fox The plight of Jay Carey, a 54-year-old North Carolina Army veteran, began not with a roar, but with a…
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Investing
Snail Mail in Decline
Chris Edwards A recent US Postal Service (USPS) forecast shows that the relentless decline in paper mail over two decades…
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Investing
The Fed Nominee’s Futile “Plan” for Currency Devaluation
Jai Kedia and Norbert Michel We and our Cato colleagues have written extensively about the flawed logic behind many of…
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Economy
OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its…
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Investing
Olivier v. City of Brandon Brief: Protecting the Right to Recover for Free Speech Violations
Caitlyn A. Kinard and Matthew Cavedon In the 1994 decision Heck v. Humphrey, the Supreme Court held that “in order…
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Investing
Shakedowns and a Sovereign Wealth Fund
Tad DeHaven Donald Trump’s autocratic instincts returned to the White House in January, but this time, no adults would be…
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