Consumer confidence is low while Jerome Powell claims he doesn’t care much about the price of precious metals.
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Mustafa Akyol The new Cato book, No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions: Islamic Arguments for Religious Freedom, edited by Senior Fellow Mustafa Akyol, is being launched this week with a public…
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Ian Vásquez Concluding a sham trial that lasted more than two years, a Hong Kong court sentenced Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison today. Since Lai is already 78 years old,…
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What happens when historical fiction becomes a more accurate portrayal than the version of history given by mainstream historians?
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Nicholas Anthony Saule Omarova, then a professor at Cornell Law School in 2021, faced one of the most intense nomination processes in recent history. The specter of her near nomination…
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The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience.
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President Trump’s plan to “rebuild” Ukraine following the destruction from warfare with Russia is a combination of Keynesianism and crony capitalism.
Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made history, their motives, and their goals.
Colin Grabow Spurred on by China’s export prowess and President Trump’s tariff-centered trade agenda, the European Union and India announced in late January that they had concluded negotiations on a…
Critics of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory claim that capital investors over time will no longer be fooled by artificially-low interest rates triggered by central banks. However, when central banks…