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Slashing Regulations to Combat Coronavirus
CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE
The coronavirus is battering the U.S economy as businesses cut back and close down. Unfortunately, federal policymakers are pursuing their usual misguided response...
Infrastructure Policy: Eight Lessons
CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE
The House Ways and Means Committee held hearings on infrastructure yesterday . The testimony by D. J. Gribbin was excellent. He was special assistant...
Lawsuit Challenges Arizona Engineering Licensing Law
J. JUSTIN WILSON, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
Institute for Justice Partners with Engineer to Challenge Law Requiring Engineers to Obtain License to Call Themselves Engineers or...
America Going Buggy Over Bed Bugs
BY ALAN CARUBA
Blast From the Past: As relevant today as it was on September 2, 2010
When The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,...
Hope from Europe on Economic Liberty
RYAN BOURNE, CATO INSTITUTE
Last week I attended and spoke at a conference hosted by the Financial Times and JTI on economic regulation in Prague.
During my panel...
Thank Obama For Placing Portland Police In A Straightjacket
BY BOB BARR
Thanks to the Obama administration’s legacy of promoting baseless charges of racism against police departments across the country, the Portland Police Department...
The Fight Over Particulate Matter
PETER VAN DOREN, CATO INSTITUTE
The EPA and conventional air pollution regulations are back in the news. NPR reported that the seven-member Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee...
Any Budget That Cuts Fed Ed is Good, But …
NEAL MCCLUSKEY, CATO INSTITUTE
The Trump Administration’s proposed U.S. Department of Education budget, released yesterday, is due some props. It would cut spending by about 10...
What’s Missing from Facebook’s Oversight Board
JOHN SAMPLES, CATO INSTITUTE
Facebook has set out a draft charter for an “Oversight Board for Content Decisions.” This document represents the first concrete step yet toward...
IJ to FDA: Milk Doesn’t Have to Come from Cows to be Called Milk
ANDREW WIMER, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
Late last week, the Institute for Justice (IJ) filed an official comment with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opposing...
Beer vs. Bureaucracy
CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE
The federal shutdown revealed some of the ways that the government needlessly shackles the economy through subsidies and regulations. The microbrew...
Victory for property rights as EPA changes course
BY TOM DEWEESE
We’ve won a major step forward for property rights. But there’s also a major danger that it can be reversed. Let me...
The misguided Affordable Clean Energy rule
Why is the US EPA still determined to control plant food and drive up electricity prices?
DR. TIM BALL AND TOM HARRIS
On August 29, 2018,...
Is the EPA Changing the Regulatory Paradigm?
PATRICK J. MICHAELS, CATO INSTITUTE
Sometimes it’s worth reading the fine print in obscure regulatory proposals. One such example is contained in a “proposed rulemaking”...
What’s Next for the EPA?
PATRICK J. MICHAELS, CATO INSTITUTE
So EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is gone, the environmentalists’ noirest bete noire since James Watt ran the Interior Department early in the...
FDA Warlords Moving to Crush Vaping and Flavored Tobacco Products
BY BOB BARR
Despite the requirement in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution that only the Congress has the power to “declare war,” the...
The War On The Poor Has Many Fronts And Armies, Professor Krugman
RYAN BOURNE, CATO INSTITUTE
Paul Krugman’s column yesterday lamented Republican policy towards the poor. He has particular gripes with Ben Carson’s changes to housing subsidies, increased...
Federal Fuel Foolishness
CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE
The federal government imposes a mandate to blend ethanol into gasoline. This “Renewable Fuel Standard” harms consumers, damages the economy, and...
No Neutral Ground: The Problem of Net Neutrality
DR. BRIAN DELLINGER
On November 21, the Federal Communications Commission announced plans to revisit its Obama-era internet regulations. It seems likely that the resulting vote...
‘Digital Shouting Matches’ Undermining Rule-Making Process
BY BOB BARR
The “internet poll” has become a familiar device with which to solicit reader feedback and drive engagement on topics from sports and...