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European Central Bank Denies Digital Euro Public Records Request
Schmidt v. City of Norfolk Brief: Automated License Plate Readers Commit Fourth Amendment Searches
Making Sense—or Not—of the Executive Order on “Promoting Access to Mortgage Credit”
Trump’s Psychedelic Order Speeds Research—but Not Access
Leaving NATO—Even for the Wrong Reasons—Is Good Policy
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European Central Bank Denies Digital Euro Public Records Request
Schmidt v. City of Norfolk Brief: Automated License Plate Readers Commit Fourth Amendment Searches
Making Sense—or Not—of the Executive Order on “Promoting Access to Mortgage Credit”
Trump’s Psychedelic Order Speeds Research—but Not Access
Leaving NATO—Even for the Wrong Reasons—Is Good Policy
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Nicholas Anthony European Central Bank officials pride themselves on championing democracy, but they seem to apply those values selectively. After submitting a public records...
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President Trump’s erratic actions have created uncertainty in the gold markets, and just about everywhere else, and there is no end in sight.
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Matthew Cavedon ALPR cameras in Pensacola, FL. (Photo: Tony Webster) Norfolk, Virginia, has deployed nearly 200 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the city,...
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Solveig Singleton Conventional wisdom holds that lax mortgage underwriting standards contributed to the 2008 Financial Crisis. Ostensibly, legislators intended the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act’s Ability...
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Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.
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Jeffrey A. Singer When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) placed psychedelics in Schedule I (“no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for...
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Whenever there is an economic problem, politicians in knee-jerk response blame private monopolies. The problem isn’t monopolies; the problem is government.
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Colleen Hroncich “Phew!” That’s the sound echoing around Idaho today after the state supreme court ruled yesterday in favor of the new Idaho Parental...
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Jeffrey Miron President Trump’s suspension of immigrant visas for 75 countries took effect on January 21. The pause affects those who seek to immigrate to...
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John F. Early and Terence Kealey In our Cato working paper “Mission Lost: How NIH Leaders Stole Its Promise to America,” Terence Kealey and...
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Colleen Hroncich Although she had a long career teaching in public schools, Genevieve Hinnant saw that her kids needed something else. Her third-grade daughter...