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  • March 4, 2024
    Blog
    Unintended Consequences of Vaccine Mandates: Good Intentions Are Not Enough
    Unintended Consequences of Vaccine Mandates: Good Intentions Are Not Enough
    … drugs, guns, sex‐​education, savings, and numerous other examples.) Libertarians believe these issues (whether X is good/​bad, versus where policy should promote/​discourage X) are separate. Policies have their own costs; they may not move X in the desired …
    By Jeffrey Miron
  • August 30, 2023
    Blog
    Vivek Ramaswamy's Conditions for Allowing Elections
    Vivek Ramaswamy’s Conditions for Allowing Elections
    Election reform does not appear among the 25 planks in Vivek Ramaswamy’s published policy plan. This makes it all the more surprising to learn that the GOP presidential candidate has a four‐​point plan to reform elections in the …
    By Walter Olson
  • February 21, 2023
    Blog
    A Crime Bigger than the Murdaugh Murders
    The Cato Institute has advocated for tort reform for decades. As the Cato Policy Handbook put it in 2017, tort litigation creates an incredible quarter of a trillion dollar annual bill that is ultimately footed by consumers. While such litigation …
    By Paul Matzko
  • May 12, 2022
    Public Comments
    Public Comment Re: Central Bank Digital Currency
    Public Comment Re: Central Bank Digital Currency
    To Whom It May Concern: My name is Nicholas Anthony. I am a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. I appreciate the opportunity to provide input to assist the Federal Reserve (Fed) in …
    By Nicholas Anthony
  • Winter 2021/2022
    Regulation
    Let the Rich Play
    … thought through. Congress’s job is to provide those rules. The book would be more helpful and influential to the policymaking process if it had noted that, in a free society, billionaires who wish to dabble in policy are free …
    By Daniel Kowalski
  • Winter 2021/2022
    Regulation
    Why Are (Some) U.S. Drug Prices So High?
    Why Are (Some) U.S. Drug Prices So High?
    Former president Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have rarely agreed on policy or political issues. I can think of only one major issue where they did: the nearly universal claim that U.S. drug prices are too high …
    By William S. Comanor
  • April 14, 2021
    Testimony
    Repeal Certificate of Need Program
    Repeal Certificate of Need Program
    Despite the ineffective nature of these laws, states still have a variety of CON laws on the books today. The various states differ in the type and number of restricted facilities and expenditures.
    By Jeffrey A. Singer
  • July 28, 2020
    National Review (Online)
    Mothball Central Banks and Dollarize
    Most central banks in emerging countries produce junk currencies, banking crises, instability, and economic misery. These central banks should have been mothballed and put in museums long ago.
    By Steve H. Hanke
  • July 24, 2020
    Blog
    A Pod for Every Child
    A Pod for Every Child
    It is time to do something different than lament the advantages of the wealthy. It is time to empower the poor to do the same things as the rich, by letting them control the funding that is supposed to educate their children.
    By Neal McCluskey
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