Vanessa Brown Calder So‐called junk fees have become a popular topic this year, and rental housing is a particular area of interest as US markets struggle with affordability challenges. The White House selected…
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For many economists, economic growth is a mystery. By “economic growth,” Shawn Ritenour has principally in mind economic progress in the less developed countries, but his recipe for growth applies…
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The new problem we now face arises from the fact that huge deficits are only manageable so long as interest rates remain very, very low. Original Article: There’s No Easy Way Out…
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Jeffrey A. Singer New Zealand’s newly‐elected center‐right government announced yesterday that it intends to scrap a planned phase‐in of tobacco prohibition that would ban sales of tobacco products to people born…
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Paul Matzko The Wall Street Journal ran another article about the decline of the local newspaper in what has become its own, depressing sub‐genre. It hits all the usual beats: an opening…
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November 28 marks the 1894 birth of one of American history’s most prolific public intellectuals—Henry Hazlitt. According to Llewellyn Rockwell, Hazlitt “was familiar with the work of every important thinker…
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New Defending Globalization Content: Trade, Consumption, Fashion, Technology, and Video with Amb. Robert B. Zoellick
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Trade Buys Goods, Services, and Time, by Gabriella Beaumont‐Smith, explains that trade not only provides consumers with…
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Thomas A. Firey US antitrust officials have been busy of late. They’re awaiting a ruling in a major case against Google, in the midst of a suit against Amazon, looking to circumvent a court…
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Adam N. Michel OpenAI released Chat GPT‑3 a year ago this month. The subsequent diffusion of ever more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) computer models drives near‐daily innovations (and corporate intrigue), such…
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That’s Not How the BRAC Commission Worked: No Up or Down Vote but Silent Approval
Romina Boccia Former Senator Rob Portman (R‑OH). I’ve excitedly been following former Senator Rob Portman’s advocacy for a congressional fiscal commission to address unsustainable spending that’s driving the US deeper into…
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