Are CBDCs Getting a Rebrand as “Digital Cash”?
Nicholas Anthony More people are taking notice each day of the risks of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). These concerns have been voiced in the media, in testimonies before Congress,…
Nicholas Anthony More people are taking notice each day of the risks of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). These concerns have been voiced in the media, in testimonies before Congress,…
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett The Senate is ready to raid the figurative emergency rainy day fund again. As we highlighted in a recent Debt Digest, Senate Appropriations Chair Patty…
Jeffrey A. Singer (Source: Google.) The German edition of Medscape Medical News reported on July 19 that Europe is beginning to experience a surge in black-market synthetic opioids. Professor Heino…
Neal McCluskey If you ran a corporation, and a division you did not need suffered massive losses while proving either ineffective or downright incompetent at its job, you would seriously…
Walter Olson With apologies to Shakespeare, nothing in his term became him like the leaving it. Even those of us who regularly disagree with the policy decisions of the Biden…
Chris Edwards, Marc Joffe, and Krit Chanwong Without reforms, exploding federal debt will generate a major economic crisis. Technically, the solution to the problem is simple (cut spending), but there…
Colleen Hroncich Carol Topp was ahead of her time. She started homeschooling around the same time as she became a certified public accountant. “I passed the CPA exam and thought,…
Walter Olson On July 10, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Videtta A. Brown dismissed a lawsuit by the City of Baltimore seeking damages from 25 oil companies over climate change.…
Krit Chanwong In Federalist Paper No. 7, Alexander Hamilton warns that commercial policy could be a source of contention and even violence among states. This warning was farsighted: Although interstate…
Romina Boccia Despite their significant policy differences, when it comes to Social Security both leading presidential candidates see eye to eye. Trump and Biden have both vowed not to cut…