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Michael F. Cannon A hot-off-the-presses report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) finds plenty of excessive Medicare spending for Congress to cut—in large part because the program sets excessive…

Norbert Michel I’ve written several articles on the punitive Credit Card Competition Act and why its policies are misguided. It’s based on a myth that the “big credit card companies”…

Colleen Hroncich When talking to the founder of a microschool that’s called Spyrja Academy, the first question kind of asks itself. “I’m a huge fan of Old Norse literature, like…

Patrick G. Eddington A few weeks ago, my colleague Clark Neily suggested to those of us on Cato’s Criminal Justice team that we should strongly consider experimenting with the use…

Nicholas Anthony More than one million Americans are about to face a new level of financial surveillance. The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that the…

Adam N. Michel In the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress placed a $10,000 limit on the amount of state and local taxes (SALT), such as income and…

Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia Today, March 13, at 2:00 PM, I’ll be joining a virtual event hosted by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) alongside Marc Goldwein…

Brian Doherty Ludwig von Mises, a foundational figure of modern libertarianism, was also for decades a hero of the American right. In George H. Nash’s magisterial 1976 history The Conservative…

Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon In another fit of economic illiteracy, President Donald Trump last month announced the imposition of 25 percent “national security” tariffs on all steel and…

Patrick G. Eddington As I noted elsewhere on March 11, the Trump regime, via Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is seeking to deport Palestinian political activist and US legal permanent…