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December 22, 2022
Maryland Reporter

Bad Policy Could Be Driving Maryland’s Emergency Room Wait Times
… the long backups are not just at Baltimore’s busy hospitals, either, but all across the state. That suggests statewide policy may be a factor. The Banner piece quotes Ge Bai, professor of health policy and management at the Johns …
By Walter Olson
December 22, 2022
Cato Daily Podcast

The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate
This mismeasurement of income inequality has given us costly and unjustified policy interventions to boost redistribution. That’s the argument from the book coauthored by Cato’s John F. Early, The Myth of American Inequality.
Featuring John F. Early and Caleb O. Brown
December 19, 2022
Blog

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 22: Postwar Monetary Policy
… policy had, at most, modest effects on output and prices.” Consequently, they neither recommended nor promoted a postwar, easy money policy, so that, assuming the Fed really did pursue such a policy, it did so for reasons other than the …
By George Selgin
December 15, 2022
Blog

The Many Ways Bad Policy Worsens Your Daily Commute
… Market‐based Solutions for Today’s Workforce, while commuting may be an unfortunate reality of working life, changes to public policy—including trade policy—can help ease this burden for American workers. The pain of commuting begins with obtaining the …
By Colin Grabow
December 14, 2022
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 313
Behavioral Responses to Supply-Side Drug Policy during the Opioid Epidemic
… drug availability. While prevention and treatment are demand‐side interventions, reducing drug availability targets the opioid supply. Throughout the epidemic, policymakers have relied heavily on supply‐side interventions. Half of all federal drug control funding ($17 billion) for fiscal year …
By Simone Balestra, Helge Liebert, and Nicole Maestas
December 13, 2022
Blog

History Cautions Against Loosening Fed Policy Too Late
… November 30 talk at the Brookings Institution, Chairman Powell ended with his familiar tagline: “History cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy.” The specific history he meant, his August 25 Jackson hole speech explained, is the period between the Arab oil …
By Alan Reynolds
December 13, 2022
Power Problems

Vacuum Fears & U.S. Foreign Policy
A common argument against U.S. troop withdrawals points to the risk of creating strategic vacuums that rival powers could then fill to great advantage. Benjamin H. Friedman, director of policy at Defense Priorities, explains why such fears are without …
Featuring Benjamin H. Friedman and John Glaser
November 30, 2022
Blog

Abundant Policy Options Available to Improve Housing Affordability for Families
Between federal and local policy reforms, there are abundant opportunities for policymakers to improve housing affordability for families.
By Vanessa Brown Calder
November 18, 2022
Forbes

The FHFA’s New Fee Policy Will Place Even More Upward Pressure on Home Prices
These changes are bad housing finance policy.
By Norbert Michel
2022
Cato Handbook for Policymakers

International Trade and Investment Policy
By Scott Lincicome, James Bacchus, Gabriella Beaumont-Smith, Colin Grabow, Daniel Griswold, & Clark Packard
2022
Cato Handbook for Policymakers

U.S. Policy toward Latin America
By Daniel Raisbeck
2022
Cato Handbook for Policymakers

Restoring Realism and Restraint in U.S. Foreign Policy
By Justin Logan
2022
Cato Handbook for Policymakers

Monetary Policy
By George Selgin
2022
Cato Handbook for Policymakers

Health and Safety Policy
By Peter Van Doren
2022
Cato Handbook for Policymakers

Environmental Policy
By Peter Van Doren