The Trump administration is considering a direct equity stake in a Louisiana-based refinery to establish what officials say would become the only large-scale producer...
Aided by rising demand for permanent magnets, the rare earths market entered 2025 on firmer footing, with prices and investor sentiment trending higher. That...
The S&P 500 ($SPX) just logged its fifth straight trading box breakout, which means that, of the five trading ranges the index has experienced since...
Former special counsel Jack Smith will testify in a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee next week, giving Republican and Democratic lawmakers on the...
Neal McCluskey and Colleen Hroncich On May 17, 1954, something necessary but not sufficient for American liberty happened: The US Supreme Court struck down...
Nicholas Anthony Governments around the world are weighing whether to launch central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. But are CBDCs even a good idea? That...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: The More Resources We Consume, the More We Have by Marian...
Clark Packard Today, the Biden administration announced it is quadrupling tariffs on imported electric vehicles (EVs) from China, while also imposing new tariffs on...
Jeffrey A. Singer Last March, a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) projected a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians, including as many...
Ryan Bourne Today the Cato Institute publishes a new book that I’ve edited, The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value...
Michael F. Cannon Rena Conti, Richard Frank, and David Cutler recently published a very useful piece in the New England Journal of Medicine under the title,...
Matthew Cavedon On October 8, 2020, the Detroit police smelled marijuana. That was their reason for ordering Jeffery Armstrong out of a parked car he...