Three Themes from Cato’s Swing State Foreign Policy Poll
Justin Logan If there’s a lot of ruin in a nation, there can be a lot of BS in a poll. Although campaign veterans and political scientists have learned a…
The Top Five Lessons for the Young Economist
The Mises Institute is creating lessons for young economists to better help them evaluate and interpret economic events. Of course, these lessons also apply to anyone else wanting to be…
Is GDP an Accurate Measure of Reality?
Mainstream economists speak of GDP as though it is the economy itself, however, GDP is not a good measure of economic reality. Instead, it presents a distorted picture of genuine…
The Costs of Mask Mandates
Jeffrey Miron Most of the debate over COVID-19-inspired mask mandates addresses their alleged benefits, such as reduced illness and death; much less focuses on the potential costs. New research, however,…
Governments Had a Major Role in Sustaining Slavery
Despite claims from progressive historians that US slavery was a natural outgrowth of a free market economy, the reality is that slavery would have been much costlier without governments—federal and…
NEW POLL: WI, PA, & MI Voters Believe US Is Too Involved in Foreign Wars and World Affairs, Most Worry WWIII Approaching
Emily Ekins A new Cato Institute survey of 1,500 Americans conducted by YouGov in the crucial swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin finds exhaustion with the current course of…
SECO Announces the Release of Clea OS with Advanced IoT Capabilities and Expanded Hardware Support
SECO, a leading provider of end-to-end technological solutions for next-generation digital devices, today announced the release of Clea OS, an embedded Linux framework, as a new member of the Clea…
Drone Threats to IoT Security: Dealing with the Growing Concern
Drones have evolved over the years from simple gadgets used for recreation to highly specialized instruments that could cause massive disruption and security breaches. Probably the latest and most alarming…
America Now Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago
The total number of employed persons has fallen by 66,000 since August of 2023. Moreover, the new job growth is almost all in part-time jobs.