How to Skirt Congress, Hide Medicare Costs, and Buy Votes in an Election Year
Michael F. Cannon President Joe Biden has touted how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) gives Medicare the
New Defending Globalization Content: The Trade Balance, Globalization of Popular Music, and Globalized Film and TV
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “The Trade Balance and Winning
Governments Make Everything Worse
Wanjiru Njoya tells Charles Malet how she sees a truly free market as the route by
Fall 2024 Campus Mises Book Clubs
This fall, students from across the US are participating in Mises Book Clubs led by scholars
Senator Vance, Please Keep the Feds out of School Policing
Kayla Susalla During the October 1 vice-presidential debate, when asked about holding parents accountable for mass shootings
America Doesn’t Need More “Efficient” Government
The true aim of our political system is to transfer wealth to the government and the
Why the Fed’s Two-Percent Inflation Target Is Meaningless
In recent years we have repeatedly seen how the Federal Reserve's much-touted two-percent price-inflation goal is
Marijuana Use and Mental Health
Jeffrey Miron A common critique of marijuana legalization asserts that marijuana use causes mental illness. Numerous studies document
Controversial Social Security Benefit Increase Would Cost Taxpayers $196 Billion
Romina Boccia Congress will soon consider the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension
Repeating the Interventionist Excesses of the Tudor Period
Modern historians romanticize the reign of the Tudors in England, but in reality, they were brutal