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Chris Edwards The Trump administration plans federal worker layoffs if the government shuts down this week. The president’s budget director argues that the federal...
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Nicholas Anthony With so many great questions at our event marking the 55th anniversary of the Bank Secrecy Act, I thought I’d take a...
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Walter Olson One of the striking features of the present administration is the regularity with which its leaders, from President Donald Trump on down,...
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Andrew Gillen While the Biden administration’s efforts to forgive student loans were persistent, most of their plans were prevented or at least paused by...
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Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo One of the latest buzz terms in federal housing policy is the “lock-in effect.” It refers to a homeowner...
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Patrick G. Eddington In my book The Triumph of Fear, one of the Cold War-era political repression programs I spend some time discussing is...
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Clark Packard Earlier this week, the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and a number of global think tanks published the annual Economic Freedom...
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Michael Chapman Libertarians and many conservatives have long argued that the federal government is too large, too intrusive, and often operates beyond its constitutional...
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Walter Olson Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order laying out plans to use law enforcement and regulation to “investigate and disrupt networks,...
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Jai Kedia The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met last week and decided to lower the target for the federal funds rate (FFR), the...
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Jeffrey Miron On September 19, President Trump signed an executive order adding a $100,000 fee to applications for H‑1B visas, which allow US employers to...
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Jeremy Horpedahl The Census Bureau recently released a massive amount of new data on Americans and the US economy, as they do each year...
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Chris Edwards In recent years, investigators have uncovered huge fraud in Minnesota’s school food subsidies. A group called Feeding Our Future spearheaded the theft of...
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Matt Mittelsteadt This month, the SANDBOX Act was introduced in the US Senate, marking the first attempt to establish a federal artificial intelligence regulatory...