Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Today, I published a piece in Real Clear Policy highlighting Mattel’s Barbie supply chain and why manufacturing products in multiple countries is positive. Here’s a summary: The toymaker behind Barbie’s iconic…
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Romina Boccia Here’s an unpopular opinion: Social Security benefits are growing too fast. And this excessive benefit growth is one of the key reasons the program is unsustainable. We’ve all…
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David J. Bier New numbers from the Census Bureau’s mini‐census, the American Community Survey (ACS), show that Americans had started panicking over a small increase in total immigration. The new data…
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Jeffrey A. Singer In November 2020, voters in Oregon approved Measure 110, which effectively decriminalized the possession of federally illicit drugs by reclassifying possession from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E violation,…
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Norbert Michel I spent a large portion of my career working at a conservative think tank, and during my last few years there I often heard folks say things like, “Of course free…
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Thomas A. Berry Yesterday at the Cato Institute we celebrated Constitution Day with our annual symposium, which coincides with the release of the Cato Supreme Court Review. This was the…
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Norbert Michel This new Forbes post provides a brief overview of my testimony last week in the U.S. House of Representatives at a hearing titled Digital Dollar Dilemma: The Implications of a Central…
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Chris Edwards As Congress considers a farm bill in coming months, it should keep in mind that farm household incomes have risen greatly over the decades. When farm programs were put…
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Ian Vásquez Hong Kong is no longer number one, according to the Economic Freedom of the World: 2023 Annual Report, released today by the Fraser Institute and co‐published in the…
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Kayla Susalla School is back in session and many districts prepared by stocking up on School Resource Officers (SROs). Yet research is unclear about the effectiveness of SROs at increasing…