Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), its mission is partly to “[regulate] the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution...
Michael F. Cannon Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has announced and begun implementing the elimination of 10,000 positions at the Department of Health and...
Jeffrey A. Singer According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), over 6.1 million people over age 12 have opioid use...
Colin Grabow As President Donald Trump threatens so-called “reciprocal tariffs” on US trading partners, some countries are offering lower duties to avoid the US...
Chris Edwards and Krit Chanwong Federal spending and deficits are at dangerously high levels, and interest costs on government borrowing are soaring. If spending...
Clark Packard Since the late 1970s, when Chinese president Deng Xiaoping initiated some market‐oriented liberalization, the country has been on an upward economic trajectory....
Adam N. Michel The Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) is a refundable payroll tax credit—equivalent to a cash payment of up to $26,000 per employee—for businesses...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On April 10, 2023, Congress terminated the three‐year‐long COVID-19 national emergency—one of the most expensive emergency declarations ever at more...
Vanessa Brown Calder This week, Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, was announced as the 2023 Nobel Prize winner....
James A. Dorn China’s strong economic growth following its shift from state‐led development (central planning) to marketization in 1978, and its drive to join...
Jeffrey A. Singer The New York Times reports today about a flood of illicit e‑cigarettes arriving from China “in Barbiecore colors and fruit, ice cream...
Scott Lincicome As I mentioned last month, Cato’s Defending Globalization project will publish new content every other week throughout the fall and into 2024. Today we’ve published...