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April 16, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Jason Sorens discusses President Trump’s global tariffs on WDEV’s Vermont Viewpoint
Featuring Jason Sorens
April 16, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Cato Institute’s 2024 Fiscal Policy Report Card is cited on Breakthrough Idea’s Reveille podcast
Featuring Chris Edwards
April 16, 2025
Media Highlights TV

Emily Ekins’ blog post, “Poll: 63% of Americans Want to Increase Trade with Other Nations, 75% Worry Tariffs Are Raising Consumer Prices,” is cited on Yahoo! Finance
Featuring Emily Ekins
April 16, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Cato Institute 2025 Fiscal Policy Poll is cited on The Armstrong & Getty Show
Featuring Emily Ekins
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Free Speech and Civil Liberties
The United States has a strictly limited federal government, with a robust Bill of Rights, yet our freedom of speech and civil liberties remain in question as government seeks new authority over citizens. The federal government today limits our political speech, subjects us to more wiretapping than ever before, criminalizes more activities every year, regulates and sometimes interferes with the content of broadcasting, and assumes unprecedented police and prosecutorial powers. The best way to protect civil liberties is to rein in the scope and power of the federal government and begin to return the federal government to its constitutional limits.
April 16, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Scott Lincicome and Tad DeHaven’s blog post, “Trump’s Automotive Tariffs Will Hurt American Conand Tad DeHaven’s blog post, “Trump’s Automotive Tariffs Will Hurt American Consumers and Producers,” is cited on Fórmula Financiera (Translated)
Featuring Scott Lincicome and Tad DeHaven
April 2025
Series

Reforming the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve System has morphed since its founding and is now too involved with our economic decisions. The Fed should operate with transparency and predictability while minimizing interference in private markets.
By Norbert Michel and Jai Kedia
April 16, 2025
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 419
The Impacts of Minimum Wage Increases on People with Disabilities
Large minimum wage increases in the 2010s reduced employment among people with severe disabilities.
By Jeffrey Clemens, Melissa D. Gentry, and Jonathan Meer
April 15, 2025
Blog

The US Food Trade Deficit Is Nothing to Fear
Deficits in specific products reflect tastes, incomes, and productivity differences across producers in various countries. Moreover, aggregate trade deficits reflect larger structural factors, such as the federal budget deficit and household savings.
By Philip G. Hoxie
April 15, 2025
Blog

New Cato Paper: Immigrants Generated $3.3 Trillion in Property Tax Revenue Since 1994
My main purpose for the paper was to show how considering the indirect effects of immigration on home values can affect the fiscal effects of immigration at the state and local levels.
By David J. Bier
April 15, 2025
Blog

“Where the Writ of the Courts Does Not Run”
The latest developments in the Abrego Garcia case make clear that President Trump, acting in conjunction with El Salvador’s strongman Nayib Bukele, is erecting a special zone for detainees in which federal courts will be powerless to review their detention and remedy violations of their constitutional rights. Trump contemplates the detention of U.S. citizens as part of the plan.
By Walter Olson
April 15, 2025
Blog

Bill Maher’s Embrace of Civil Discourse Is No Laughing Matter
If Bill Maher and Donald Trump can have a pleasant and generative conversation, maybe we all can.
By Erec Smith
April 15, 2025
Blog

Lawsuit Filed Challenging Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs
On April 14, the Liberty Justice Center and I filed a lawsuit in the US Court of International Trade challenging the legality of Donald Trump’s gargantuan “Liberation Day” tariffs, on behalf of five US businesses that import goods from many of the countries targeted by the tariffs.
By Ilya Somin
April 15, 2025
Forbes

Congress Should Never Have Created Fannie Or the GSEs
For hundreds of years, it has been clear that the blending of public and private interests in the economy leads to special favors for some at the expense of others.
By Norbert Michel
April 15, 2025
Blog

Still Out of Reach: Why Effective Opioid Treatment Isn’t Getting to Patients
The government doesn’t need to build a new system—it just needs to get out of the way and let doctors treat their patients.
By Jeffrey A. Singer