Dominik Lett The R Street Institute asked several leading budget experts the following question: “What is the most important federal budget process reform that would achieve a more sustainable fiscal…
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Romina Boccia The R Street Institute asked several leading budget experts the following question: “What is the most important federal budget process reform that would achieve a more sustainable fiscal…
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US Fiscal Dominance, the Coming Fiscal Inflection Point, and How Congress Can Fix the Debt Crisis (Before It’s Too Late)
Romina Boccia Last week on Capitol Hill, we discussed a risk that is becoming more real every day that Congress delays fixing the debt: fiscal dominance—when rising federal debt pushes…
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Nicholas Anthony The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has been the talk of the town in the world of cryptocurrency. Often described as “market structure legislation,” the bill is supposed…
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AI is not the killer—it is the coroner.
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Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo (Wikimedia Commons) Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies recently criticized our research on immigrant welfare use at National Review. His central complaint is…
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Marcos Falcone Cuba’s economy is on the verge of collapsing. True, the standard of living has deteriorated under communism—most notably after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end…
Mike Fox In the centuries before the Enlightenment, the law had a literal way of crushing the accused. European courts used judicially sanctioned torture to extract confessions, and in colonial…
Jeffrey Miron At the core of many public policy decisions is the question of centralization. Libertarians prefer leaving policy to local governments while acknowledging that local control can have downsides.…
Unfortunately, slavery was not just propped up by policy in the slave states, but federally. It is often overlooked that the federal government—not just slave states—had implemented legal protections of…