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Tate Lacey
Tate Lacey was a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, covering monetary policy and macroeconomics. Before joining Cato, Lacey was an economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, serving on the team responsible …
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Dalibor Rohac
Dalibor Rohac was a policy analyst with the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His work focused on international political economy and development. Before joining Cato, he was an economist at the London‐based Legatum Institute, where …
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Barbara Conry
Barbara Conry, former associate policy analyst, was a public relations consultant at Hensley Segal Rentschler and an expert on security issues in the Middle East, Western Europe, and Central Asia.
September 18, 2024
The War on Prices

Restricting Food Imports Will Raise Prices, President Trump
… are primarily driven by broader macroeconomic conditions—particularly inflation and growth trends—which also influence the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions. While a president can indirectly impact these conditions, monetary policy decisions remain largely independent of direct presidential influence …
By Ryan Bourne and Sophia Bagley
Winter 2023-2024
Regulation

More Volume than Value in Health Quality Measures?
… or improve our health. Consider some of the rhetorical paradoxes that coexist too comfortably within much of our contemporary health policy debate. For example, policymakers and commentators lament that Americans spend too much on health care, except when we spend …
By Tom Miller
November 3, 2023
Blog

First Impressions of the AI Order’s Impact on Fintech
… with issues ranging from biosecurity to the labor force to government hiring—it unsurprisingly contains several provisions that address financial policy specifically. Notably, the EO names financial services as one of several “critical fields” where the stakes of AI policy …
By Jack Solowey
October 25, 2023
Blog

We Fixate on Book ‘Bans,’ But It’s Time to Scrutinize Acquisitions
Last week my new Policy Analysis on public school library holdings was published. A major reason I wrote it was that it felt to me that over the last few years Americans had been expending a huge amount of energy …
By Neal McCluskey
December 15, 2022
Empowering the New American Worker

Criminal Justice
By Scott Lincicome and Ilana Blumsack
August 19, 2022
Blog

Dissent Is a Part of Crypto
Time and the market will tell who’s right about crypto’s utility. Or at least they should be allowed to. Open debate and competing visions of software development are positive-sum means to weigh whether crypto will live up to the potential its proponents see in it.
By Jack Solowey
June 1, 2021
The Wall Street Journal

The Left’s Decriminalization Push Stops Short of Labor Law
Exposing managers to criminal prosecution over common, legally unsettled and even sometimes praiseworthy (such as flexible hours) human-resources practices is no way to run a legal system—or an economy.
By Walter Olson
February 14, 2021
Blog

More Evidence That Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Might Increase Overdose Deaths
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs have no appreciable effect on the fatal or non-fatal opioid overdose rate, but may increase overdoses from heroin.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
September 24, 2020
Blog

A Tale of Two Scourges
It’s the number of overdose deaths that matter—not the number of arrests.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
April 13, 2020
Blog

Regulation after COVID-19
After the COVID-19 emergency ends, what will become of the temporarily suspended regulations that federal and state governments adopted to help markets better meet consumer demand?
By Thomas A. Firey
September 22, 2018
Washington Examiner

Keep iPhone Production in China
Using tariffs and other measures to drive production to the United States does little more than artificially raise expenses.
By Colin Grabow
August 1, 2018
Blog

A No-News Press Release from the Fed
It’s all well and good for the FOMC to adjust its language in the wake of positive GDP figures, but the Fed still has a very large question to address.
By Tate Lacey