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April 5, 2024
Blog

Don’t Let Electricity Become the New Front in the Culture Wars
bitcoin Electricity demand is growing again in America. Although many of us welcome such growth as a hopeful sign of a recovering economy, there is a new troubling debate over whether some uses of electricity are “parasitic.” Electricity policy debates …
By Travis Fisher
September 13, 2023
Testimony

Unlocking America’s Potential: How Immigration Fuels Economic Growth and Our Competitive Advantage
Chairman Whitehouse, Ranking Member Grassley, and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is David Bier. I am the Associate Director of Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute, a nonpartisan public policy research …
By David J. Bier
April 10, 2020
Books

Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance
Cato Store Amazon Barnes & Noble Powell’s Apple Books About the Book Innovators of all stripes—such as Airbnb and Uber—are increasingly using new technological capabilities to circumvent traditional regulatory systems, or at least put pressure on public policymakers …
By Adam D. Thierer
January 31, 2022
Publications

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Which Plan Fits Your Priorities
WINTER 2022 | Cato’s Letter 7 C ato Sponsors believe that the princi- ples set forth in our Founding doc- uments remain a clear and forceful answer to the problems we face today. And thanks to our work, journalists, policymak …
December 9, 2021
Blog

Is New Zealand about To Invite A New Drug Prohibition Problem?
Just when we see encouraging signs that prohibitionists are beginning to learn that drug prohibition is the main cause of harm production from nonmedical drug use–with new initiatives at home and abroad to decriminalize illicit drug use–policymakers in …
By Jeffrey A. Singer
May 3, 2021
Blog

How Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Gun Advocates Make the Same Bad Arguments
From arguing from anecdotes to close “loopholes,” to being misinformed on the facts, anti-immigrant and anti-gun advocates often make very similar bad arguments.
By Trevor Burrus
April 28, 2021
Testimony

“Why Don’t They Just Get in Line?” Barriers to Legal Immigration
[I]t is impossible to ignore how the past year has seen the meager legal immigration system become more closed than at any point since the end of the Great Depression.
By David J. Bier
March 25, 2021
Blog

New Brandeis “Hipster” Antitrust Comes to Washington
Biden administration nominees Lina Khan and Timothy Wu point to a troubling shift towards anti-trust behavior that Cato scholars oppose.
By Ryan Bourne and Erin Partin
February 17, 2021
Blog

Building a Wall Between Pain Patients and Their Doctors
The patient-doctor relationship is taking a beating because of the opioid war.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
November 24, 2020
The Hill (Online)

Immigration Restrictions and Racial Discrimination Share Similar Roots
Both restrict freedom and opportunity based on arbitrary circumstances of birth. And both have historic roots in bigotry.
By Ilya Somin
September 22, 2020
Testimony

The Economic Impact of America’s Failure to Contain the Coronavirus
By Jeffrey A. Singer
December 4, 2019
Publications

National Security Threat Assessments
July 19, 2018
EconLog

MAGAnomics: A 500 Day Appraisal
By Thomas A. Firey
December 26, 2017
Blog

Mandatory 3-Day Rehab Just Another Feel-Good Proposal With Unintended Consequences
A proposal by the Massachusetts Governor to allow 3-day detention of overdose victims in a rehab center without court approval is not evidence-based, will further strain health care resources, and is just another emotional response to a complex problem. It also might infringe on the due process rights of those detained.
By Jeffrey A. Singer
April 3, 2017
News Releases

School Inc. – A Personal Journey with Andrew Coulson explores the challenge to replicate educational excellence