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  • July 2, 2020
    Legal Briefs
    California v. Texas
    … reduced the Affordable Care Act’s “shared responsibility payment”—the amount someone who doesn’t purchase a qualifying health insurance policy has to pay—to $0. At the time, many members of Congress maintained that this provision would not affect …
    By Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman
  • September 21, 2016
    National Review (Online)
    In Comparative Economic Freedom, the U.S. Is in 16th Place
    … by a consortium of more than 70 think tanks from around the world. It rates countries on a variety of policies from the size of government and the tax and regulatory burden to the soundness of the money supply and …
    By Michael D. Tanner
  • February 14, 2016
    Reason.com
    Justice Scalia and the Libertarian Legal Movement
    … are about as socially conservative as any modern public official. But so what? There are plenty of religious libertarians, and policy issues like abortion and the death penalty split the liberty movement. Ah, but Scalia, who died yesterday at the …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • May 12, 2014
    Blog
    The Cost of Regulation
    … University notes in his new book, “Permissionless Innovation.” [Available free and ungated here. - JC] The central fault line in technology policy debates today can be thought of as ‘the permission question,’ ” Mr. Thierer writes. “Must the creators of new technologies …
    By John H. Cochrane
  • July 11, 2012
    Blog
    TSA Should Follow the Law
    … a very important ruling, for reasons I discussed in a post back then. The TSA was supposed to publish its policy in the Federal Register, take comments from the public, and issue a final rule that responds to public input …
    By Jim Harper
  • October 11, 2011
    Washington Times
    Unthinking Financial Regulators
    … unbanked or underbanked and that this number is rising, not falling, largely because of ill‐​thought‐​out financial regulation and policies. The term “unbanked” refers to people who have neither checking nor savings accounts. “Underbanked” refers to people who have …
    By Richard W. Rahn
  • January 18, 2011
    Blog
    Hollow Ivory
    … often isn’t the same as doing what’s smart. Today, we get more evidence that simplistic, rhetoric‐​driven education policymaking — more degrees equals more learning equals economic bonanza! — is ultimately counterproductive. It turns out, students generally learn very little …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • Winter 2011
    Cato Journal
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    What Aid Can’t Do: Reply to Ranis
    … of the MCC’s [Millennium Challenge Corporation’s] present grants-for-projects approach, favored by Easterly and Skarbek and Leeson, policy-based program lending or grants should be relied upon. Skarbek and Leeson are ready to throw the baby out …
    By David B. Skarbek and Peter T. Leeson
  • December 14, 2009
    Blog
    Volcker Unloads on Bankers
    … are being restored in part by playing financial brinkmanship once again. How can this be? Volcker focuses in on public policies that back excessive risk taking by bankers. They and their stockholders garner the profits, but, through bailouts and government …
    By Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr.
  • April 10, 2009
    Blog
    Who’s Blogging about Cato
    … on the success of El Salvador’s free market reforms. Health care writer John Goodman discussed John Cochrane’s recent Policy Analysis on market‐​based strategies to improve health security. At NRO’s The Corner, Veronique de Rugy is following …
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