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Dollarization Turns 26 in Ecuador
Manufacturing Employment Data Confirm the Concentrated Benefits—and Dispersed Costs—of Trump’s Tariffs
Brief Filed in Mohamud v. Weyker: State Officers on Federal Task Forces Should Not Be Immune from Accountability
Trump’s Pentagon Takes Equity Stake in Defense Contractor
Congress Should Scrap the Golden Dome Project
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Dollarization Turns 26 in Ecuador
Manufacturing Employment Data Confirm the Concentrated Benefits—and Dispersed Costs—of Trump’s Tariffs
Brief Filed in Mohamud v. Weyker: State Officers on Federal Task Forces Should Not Be Immune from Accountability
Trump’s Pentagon Takes Equity Stake in Defense Contractor
Congress Should Scrap the Golden Dome Project
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Bob revisits Böhm-Bawerk’s critique of the exploitation theory of interest to answer modern claims that billionaires like Elon Musk must have “stolen” their wealth...
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With a record-height tower and a flooded credit system: 2026 may be when the curse returns.
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Gabriela Calderon de Burgos Today in the Wall Street Journal, economist Judy Shelton suggests that Latin American countries adopt the US dollar. She weighs in...
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Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report offers a stark reminder that US manufacturing continues to struggle....
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Matthew Cavedon A local St. Paul, Minnesota, police officer, Heather Weyker, claimed to have uncovered a vast interstate sex trafficking conspiracy, which led to...
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Tad DeHaven The federal government is to become the customer, regulator, and partial owner of a defense contractor under a deal announced by the...
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Benjamin Giltner Many people remain stumped over President Trump’s continual insistence on acquiring Greenland. He most recently justified a takeover of the island with...
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Dominik Lett The interest on a typical 30-year mortgage costs $500 more per month than it did in 2019. Credit card rates have climbed...
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Jeffrey A. Singer, Terence Kealey, and Bautista Vivanco Since the publication of three books — Gary Taubes’s Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), Michael Pollan’s In Defense...
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Grizzly bears are no where near being truly “endangered” yet they continue to receive federal protection.
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Every lover of liberty should have a good reading list that promotes freedom. At the same time, one should develop the discerning eye to...
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The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different political and social outlooks.
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Dr. Peter Klein explains why truly “liberating the American university” means cutting all state ownership, funding, and regulation—not just tweaking DEI programs or research...
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Colleen Hroncich Last year, Congress created a federal tax credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations (SGOs) that help families choose the best educational options...
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Matthew Cavedon My Cato colleague Dr. Jeffrey Singer recently endorsed New York’s pending legalization of Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). While his perspective reflects...
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The Ken Burns theme that the creation of the U.S. Constitution saved this country from “chaos” exaggerates the difficulties the new nation faced under...