Romina Boccia Congress will soon consider the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), which would unfairly increase benefits...
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...
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...
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,...
Colin Grabow For decades the federal government has been manipulating the domestic sugar market through a system of import and production restrictions that increases the...
Marc Joffe The Census Bureau recently reported that the US has 90,837 local governments. Many of these entities are superfluous, insolvent, or poorly managed....
Scott Lincicome When people hear the word “globalization” they probably think of giant container ships, wonky economic terms like “offshoring” and “trade deficit,” or...
Peter Van Doren Google Store certifies and distributes applications for mobile phones using its Android operating system and charges a percentage of the price that...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Money Across Borders: How Cryptocurrency Has Opened Global Exchange, by Nicholas...
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner US support for Ukraine and the strain that effort places on the defense industrial base are prompting concerns about...
Jai Kedia Research by Cato’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives (CMFA) shows that there is not much empirical support for the notion that...
Jack Solowey Jack Solowey, policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. This week, the Biden administration issued a long‐anticipated Executive...
Colleen Hroncich In the post‐Covid era, many schools cite every child having a computer as a selling point—even as young as first grade sometimes. But the...