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Solveig Singleton Earned wage access (EWA) programs allow employees to access their already-earned wages before payday. Employer-sponsored EWA programs are typically funded by fees paid...
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Walter Olson In a Monday interview with former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, President Donald Trump said, “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to...
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Alan Reynolds In addition to other false claims, President Donald Trump’s recent Wall Street Journal article (“My Tariffs Have Brought America Back”) once again repeated his grandiose...
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Adam N. Michel In 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) classified virtual currencies as property for tax purposes, forcing a rapidly evolving technology into...
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Walter Olson Number 20 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy, focusing this time on the question of whether this year’s midterm...
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Matthew Cavedon In an interview with Fox News yesterday, Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, threatened gun owners: “You...
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Jennifer Huddleston In 2026, discussion continues about the impact of technology and social media on kids and teens. New technologies such as AI chatbots...
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James A. Dorn Andrew Ross Sorkin’s blockbuster, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, seeks to explain...
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David J. Bier Today, the Cato Institute published “Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023,” a study on the fiscal effects of immigrants—legal and...
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Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman The lesson from Minnesota’s fraud scandal is that no amount of red tape can fix a system built on...
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For the past month, Americans have been wondering whether President Trump will attack Iran, or whether the massive military build-up in the Middle East...
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The Mail reports Trump has asked the Joint Special Operations Command to come up with an invasion plan, but the joint chiefs are resisting...
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This feud is little more than two factions within the Federal government fighting over how exactly to use the Fed’s many powers to inflate,...
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President Trump has told The New York Times that he expects to “run” Venezuela for many years following the US attack on Caracas to...
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What if the affordability crisis is not a failure of markets at all? What if it is the predictable outcome of how modern governments...