Is President Joe Biden more interested in fighting climate change or in sheltering domestic industries from foreign competition? We will find out not too long from now.
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Investing
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A Georgia judge has ruled that the First Amendment generally does not protect the actions of defendants alleged to have attempted to overturn the state’s presidential vote in the 2020 election.
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Dr. Kenny’s article breaks with libertarian principles (and textbook insights from Pigouvian economics) by endorsing the goal of “net zero” CO2 emissions and embracing a set of global interventionist policies to achieve it.
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The United States cannot afford to continue recklessly high levels of deficit spending given our current fiscal trajectory. A baseline change that accurately reflects the nature of emergency spending is a critical step in this direction. Curbing this and other abuses of emergency spending should be a bipartisan priority.
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The public library seems so intrinsically good that it should be beyond criticism. But like any institution that consumes millions of tax dollars, public libraries should not be free from scrutiny. And the facts are that neighborhood libraries have largely outlived their usefulness and no longer provide value for the public money spent on them.
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R‑FL) took to X (formerly Twitter) to address criticisms—including from the Cato Institute’s Colin Grabow—of recent opinion pieces he penned calling for the expanded use of industrial policy. In this blog post, Grabow responds to Sen. Rubio’s comments and reiterates the case against industrial policy.
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Hopefully, the net neutrality controversy will be retired—by courts or by Congress—before it does much damage to the Internet services and infrastructure sectors and before it enters a fourth decade.
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Had it not been for the extraordinary devastation brought on by the war, the modern European welfare state might look very different today. The US would be wise not to go down a similar path.