Eric Gomez In 2024, the Cato Institute will host its seventh annual Junior Scholars Symposium (JSS), a paper workshop for graduate students on policy‐relevant topics related to international security and national…
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David Kemp A Washington Post article this week observes that oil industry executives celebrated huge profits in the wake of an international agreement to transition away from fossil fuels to…
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Scott Lincicome The Economic Report of the President (ERP), released annually by the Council of Economic Advisers, is always full of useful and interesting data, and the just‐published 2024 edition…
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Colleen Hroncich “Every student deserves that,” Walt Tracy thought when he saw a credit recovery program that was providing individualized learning plans for students after COVID-19 interrupted their education. He and…
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James A. Dorn Today the world is on a pure fiat money standard. Unlike the classical gold standard, there is no mechanism for maintaining long‐run price stability. Once the inflation genie…
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Nicholas Anthony Financial freedom is under fire. Policies like the Digital Asset Anti‐Money Laundering Act, the Credit Card Competition Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s slew of price controls, and…
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Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest 30‐year budget projections forecast rising debt, deficits, and interest costs, which will undermine US investment and economic growth and…
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Thomas A. Berry Federal law is full of deadlines. But in federal court, most deadlines are flexible. Courts can usually extend a deadline when there is a compelling reason to do so—a…
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Marc Joffe and Jeffrey A. Singer How often do people have to leave work early for a medical appointment and wait for an hour for the doctor to perform a simple test…
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Peter Goettler I’m excited to announce that today Cato launches its new quarterly magazine Free Society. Free Society will replace our long‐running bimonthly Cato Policy Report and our quarterly publications…