Fiscal Report on the Governors 2024
Chris Edwards Cato has released the 17th biennial Fiscal Report Card on America’s Governors. The report grades the governors on their tax and spending records since 2022. Governors who have restrained…
IoTerop Actively Seeking a Buyer
IoTerop, a pioneer of the Lightweight M2M (LwM2M) standard and a member of the OMA SpecWorks Board, is actively seeking a buyer following its placement under receivership by the commercial…
The Perils of Lawfare
One sign of a fraying society is that its laws increasingly become political tools. The latest round involves Democrats trying to use criminal law in a very questionable way to…
Florida Moves to Ban Campaign Ad as “Sanitary Nuisance”
Walter Olson The Florida Department of Health has sent a letter to Gainesville television station WCJB demanding that it cease airing a campaign ad in support of Amendment 4, a…
Trump’s Right, It’s Time to Repeal Worldwide Individual Taxation
Adam N. Michel The United States stands alone in applying the entire domestic tax regime to all citizens, permanent residents, and tax residents regardless of where they live and work.…
Rebel Ridge Is an Effective Fantasy but the Reality Is Even Worse
Clark Neily If you haven’t seen the Netflix blockbuster Rebel Ridge, you should. Billed as a Rambo-meets-Jack-Reacher police procedural whose protagonist is triggered by a costly encounter with civil forfeiture…
How the Latest TikTok Headlines Relate to Ongoing Tech Policy Debates
Jennifer Huddleston October has seen a number of bad headlines about the popular social media app TikTok. First, 13 states and the District of Columbia alleged that the platform harmed…
Will Politicians Toxify Freedom Forever?
The Harris-Walz campaign has adopted “freedom” as its watchword slogan, but it is a version of freedom that is more fitting for something from one of Orwell‘s works than freedom…
Victory Is Our Goal
The first libertarian revolution succeeded, and we can do the same — but we, too, must have the will to triumph, to accept nothing less than total victory.
Does the Central Bank Determine Interest Rates?
A common belief among economists is that the central bank determines what interest rates should be. But is that accurate? Indeed, there is more to the story.