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Come Back with a Warrant

Clark Neily On February 10, Cato filed an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit supporting a challenge to Texas’s “Right to Examine” statute, which...

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Content Moderation, Competition, and Claims of Social Media Censorship

Jennifer Huddleston On February 20, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a request for information (RFI) on “Technology Platform Censorship.” The last section of...

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Too Much Law, Not Enough Judging

Clark Neily In his new book examining the “explosion” of freedom-restricting laws over the past few decades, Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too...

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From the Editor—January / February 2025

The American Revolution struck a heavy blow to mercantilism. Unfortunately, many mercantilist policies persisted under new labels: cartelization, monopoly, regulation, and taxation to support...

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Congress Needs to Be Jealous of its Tariff Powers

President Trump is levying high tariffs without consent of Congress, despite the fact that the US Constitution gives only Congress the power to set...

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President Joe Biden’s Decision to Posthumously Pardon Marcus Garvey

Before leaving office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923. Like other dissenters that...

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Faculty Spotlight—Tate Fegley

Dr. Fegley is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and chair of business and economics at Montreat College. In 2023, he joined the Mises...

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The FTC’s Doublethink Confuses Content Moderation, Censorship, and Expression

David Inserra The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that it was requesting comments about “technology platform censorship.” The FTC letter suggests that social...

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A Regulatory Warning from Vice President Vance

Matt Mittelsteadt At the recent AI Action Summit, Vice President JD Vance delivered a barnburner debut on the international policy stage. In his fifteen-minute...

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When Does Speech Threaten Officials? From Washington, a Newly Aggressive View

Walter Olson If you expected a second Trump term to usher in some sort of new era of free speech, you might by now...

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The Folly of Tariff Reciprocity

Colin Grabow Citing alleged unfairness in the current trading system, President Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for the adoption of a...

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DP Trading Room: Defensive Sectors Lead the Pack

The complexion of the market is changing. Aggressive sectors which have led the market higher are now beginning to show signs of strain as...

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AMZN: A Case Study in Bearish Divergence

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The Best Five Sectors, #8

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The Top is Confirmed and Now It’s Just a Matter of How Low We Go

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Market Rotation and Cap-Weight Dynamics: A Closer Look

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Mega-Caps Weakening, More Trouble Ahead

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Stroke of the Pen, Law of the Land: Kinda Nuts

Gene Healy Two weeks into the first Donald Trump presidency, Washington was freaking out about presidential style: “alternative facts” about Inaugural crowd size; scandalizing...

February 6, 2025

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A US Sovereign Wealth Fund Is a Bad Idea

Tad DeHaven President Trump issued an executive order planning the establishment of a US sovereign wealth fund. A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a...

February 6, 2025
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