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  • February 16, 2023
    The Times
    The New Left and New Right Aren't So Different on Economics
    The New Left and New Right Aren’t So Different on Economics
    American bipartisanship is dead, and the two main US political parties hold views that are completely irreconcilable. So goes the conventional wisdom. However, on economic policy at least, this narrative has an unfortunate characteristic. It’s wrong. Strip out his …
    By Ryan Bourne
  • February 16, 2023
    USA Today
    Bureaucrats Are Telling Your Doctor How to Treat Pain. And Patients Suffer Needlessly.
    Bureaucrats Are Telling Your Doctor How to Treat Pain. And Patients Suffer Needlessly.
    … let alone severe, postoperative pain. But this is just what has happened. Thanks to pressure from lawmakers, government agencies and policymakers who inserted themselves into the patient‐​doctor relationship, patients became the victims of the never‐​ending war on drugs …
    By Jeffrey A. Singer and Josh Bloom
  • February 9, 2023
    The Times
    The Government Doesn't Control the Economy
    The Government Doesn’t Control the Economy
    … really explain the size of the productivity slump we’ve experienced post‐​2008. Other factors more powerful than their new policy decisions were at play. Consider another example. The Tories have claimed credit for the unemployment rate (3.7 per …
    By Ryan Bourne
  • February 2, 2023
    Blog
    Is China Mellowing?
    Is China Mellowing?
    … China deals with its distracting and perhaps extended Covid crisis. There is a potential for a sort of Nixon‐​goes‐​to‐​China development in which China, while making no real change to its domestic policy, decidedly shifts its foreign policy.
    By John Mueller
  • February 2, 2023
    Blog
    No Shortage of Options for Reforming the Jones Act
    No Shortage of Options for Reforming the Jones Act
    … and national security. Notably, many of these options have already been successfully implemented in other countries or are long-standing policy norms abroad. American maritime policy should learn from and incorporate lessons based on these experiences rather than remain inert …
    By Colin Grabow
  • February 2, 2023
    The American Conservative
    Pompeo and the Prince
    Pompeo and the Prince
    Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s enthusiasm for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia illustrates the worst of U.S. foreign policy. As secretary of state under President Donald Trump, Pompeo acted as if he were a mob consigliere for …
    By Doug Bandow
  • January 30, 2023
    Foreign Policy
    Biden Can Use a First Fix for a Broken Immigration System
    Biden Can Use a First Fix for a Broken Immigration System
    Resolving the border chaos of today requires different policies than those used in the recent past, such as hiring more border agents, increasing barriers and high‐​tech surveillance, or defaulting to returning migrants to the Mexican side of the border.
    By Alex Nowrasteh, Stan Veuger, and Tara Watson
  • January 30, 2023
    Cato Daily Podcast
    Scope of Practice and the Supply of Health Care Services
    Scope of Practice and the Supply of Health Care Services
    When you wait three months for an appointment only to spend a few minutes with a physician, would you say that you had adequate access to your doctor? How would expanding scope of practice help? Elizabeth Stelle with the Commonwealth Foundation comments from the Cato Institute’s State Health Policy Summit held earlier this month.
    Featuring Elizabeth Stelle and Caleb O. Brown
  • January 26, 2023
    The American Conservative
    The Limits of Number One
    The Limits of Number One
    The world is not a global chess game in which American policymakers are entitled to wreak havoc while sacrificing U.S. military personnel and foreign civilians alike as so many gambit pawns.
    By Doug Bandow
  • January 20, 2023
    Blog
    Decline in Union Density No Cause for Worry
    The latest decline in private-sector union density is not the result of anti-union public policy, but rather a more open and competitive private economy.
    By Daniel Griswold
  • January 17, 2023
    Blog
    Congressional Pay for Performance: No Budget, No Pay
    Congressional Pay for Performance: No Budget, No Pay
    Withholding congressional pay would encourage members to grapple with the size and scope of federal spending and to put their policy priorities into the context of fiscal realities.
    By Romina Boccia
  • January 12, 2023
    Forbes
    A Change in Philosophy at the Fed Is Long Overdue -- Part Two
    A Change in Philosophy at the Fed Is Long Overdue — Part Two
    First, the Fed should stop viewing economic growth as the enemy. Growth does not, by itself, cause inflation. Second, there is ample evidence for the Fed to stop basing monetary policy on the Phillips curve, the supposed tradeoff between inflation and unemployment.
    By Norbert Michel
  • January 11, 2023
    Blog
    Big Dairy Milks Congress for Baby Formula Tariffs
    Big Dairy Milks Congress for Baby Formula Tariffs
    Policymakers failed to glean important lessons from the crisis and squandered the opportunity to liberalize an industry in dire need of free market reform.
    By Gabriella Beaumont-Smith
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