Enhancing Transparency over Emergency Spending Reporting: A Call for Executive Accountability
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On April 10, 2023, Congress terminated the three‐year‐long COVID-19 national emergency—one of the
Nobel Prize Winner Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap
Vanessa Brown Calder This week, Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, was
The Benefits of China’s Market Reforms and Opening to the Outside World Should Not Be Forgotten
James A. Dorn China’s strong economic growth following its shift from state‐led development (central planning) to marketization
Highlights from the Supreme Court’s First Week Back
Anastasia P. Boden It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Last week, on the first Monday
E-Cigarettes Are Not Exempt from the Iron Law of Prohibition
Jeffrey A. Singer The New York Times reports today about a flood of illicit e‑cigarettes arriving from China
How Large Is the Federal Debt?
Chris Edwards The federal government’s debt is massive and growing rapidly. How massive? Federal debt held by
New Defending Globalization Essays: China Then; China Now; and the ‘Race to the Bottom’
Scott Lincicome As I mentioned last month, Cato’s Defending Globalization project will publish new content every other week throughout the
Census Bureau Analysis Supports Cato’s MENA Analysis
Andrew C. Forrester Around the time that Cato published my estimates that the Middle Eastern or North
How the Inflation Reduction Act Bankrolls EPA Overreach
Travis Fisher The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers a master class in implementing expensive, counterproductive, and highly partisan
Governor Newsom Bars Californians from Self-Medicating with Psychedelics
Jeffrey A. Singer When the California legislature passed a bipartisan bill one month ago that would decriminalize possessing