Editor’s Pick

In this video from StockCharts TV, Julius explores the October seasonal outlook for the S&P 500 and various sectors. Seasonality suggests a potential rise in the S&P 500, fueled by…

Here’s the issue with gold: it’s difficult to find as much info on it as stocks. For many investors, the buzz around Costco’s (COST) gold sales put gold back on…

Jennifer J. Schulp and Jack Solowey What do Yankees tickets and Pokémon cards have in common? If you guessed wish list items for elementary school kids, you wouldn’t be wrong.…

James A. Dorn In her recent article in Business Insider, Linette Lopez, a graduate of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, argues that China’s latest efforts to spur the economy…

Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner There were multiple developments in US security assistance to Taiwan in September 2024, but the size of the arms sale backlog did not change from…

Michael F. Cannon President Joe Biden has touted how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) gives Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices. He has boasted that this new authority…

Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “The Trade Balance and Winning at Trade,” by Andreas Freytag and Phil Levy, explains that the trade…

Kayla Susalla During the October 1 vice-presidential debate, when asked about holding parents accountable for mass shootings in schools, Sen. JD Vance (R‑OH) responded, in part: I don’t want my…

Jeffrey Miron A common critique of marijuana legalization asserts that marijuana use causes mental illness. Numerous studies document a correlation between use and conditions such as psychosis. This evidence, however, does…

Romina Boccia Congress will soon consider the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), which would unfairly increase benefits for individuals with earnings that weren’t…