Is the Dockworkers Union a Corporate Tool?
The dockworkers strike will increase prices while generally acting “in restraint of trade.” This, we are told, is exactly what big corporations want.
Collecting Jurisdiction: The SEC’s Wrongheaded Expansionary Approach to NFTs
Jennifer J. Schulp and Jack Solowey What do Yankees tickets and Pokémon cards have in common? If you guessed wish list items for elementary school kids, you wouldn’t be wrong.…
Taiwan Arms Backlog, September 2024 Update: New Maintenance Sale and Details of Troubled PDA Transfer
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner There were multiple developments in US security assistance to Taiwan in September 2024, but the size of the arms sale backlog did not change from…
Xi Isn’t a Follower of Hayek, But He Should Be
James A. Dorn In her recent article in Business Insider, Linette Lopez, a graduate of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, argues that China’s latest efforts to spur the economy…
Fall 2024 Campus Mises Book Clubs
This fall, students from across the US are participating in Mises Book Clubs led by scholars at various universities and colleges. These student groups promote deep reading in Austrian economics.
Governments Make Everything Worse
Wanjiru Njoya tells Charles Malet how she sees a truly free market as the route by which all societies are improved.
New Defending Globalization Content: The Trade Balance, Globalization of Popular Music, and Globalized Film and TV
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “The Trade Balance and Winning at Trade,” by Andreas Freytag and Phil Levy, explains that the trade…
How to Skirt Congress, Hide Medicare Costs, and Buy Votes in an Election Year
Michael F. Cannon President Joe Biden has touted how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) gives Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices. He has boasted that this new authority…
Repeating the Interventionist Excesses of the Tudor Period
Modern historians romanticize the reign of the Tudors in England, but in reality, they were brutal to their subjects and they centralized power to the detriment of the people. Governments…
Why the Fed’s Two-Percent Inflation Target Is Meaningless
In recent years we have repeatedly seen how the Federal Reserve’s much-touted two-percent price-inflation goal is little more than a political slogan.