Gitmo Preps for an Upgrade
This monument to the war on terror is still open, and it's costing taxpayers a fortune.
This monument to the war on terror is still open, and it's costing taxpayers a fortune.
Plus: Klobuchar and Warren join Democrat 2020 contest and AOC retracts "Green New Deal" draft.
The estate tax is a form of double taxation.
The president's Oval Office address was misleading.
He probably won't shut down the internet. But declaring a "national emergency" is a bad idea anyway.
Yes, the government shutdown is to blame. No, it's not that big of a deal.
The campaign isn't actually about ladders.
It's a bad idea in more ways than one.
Economists Kenneth Rogoff and Lawrence H. White face off over what the impact would be of a ban on cryptocurrency and phaseout of the $100 bill.
$13.6 million might be a drop in the bucket. But this is still incredibly wasteful.
The next Reason/Soho Forum debate takes place in New York on December 3 and features Harvard's Ken Rogoff and GMU's Larry White.
The Mega Millions jackpot has reached an astounding $1.6 billion. You and I probably won't win, but the government definitely will.
Plus: Rep. Amash moves to limit weapons sales to Saudis while evangelical leaders defend them.
The value of $15 varies greatly across the country and even within the same states.
Plus: Kavanaugh confirmation is official and child care tax credits backfire.
Thank you for the lesson, Mr. President!
CNN's Jake Tapper kept asking the socialist candidate where the money would come from. Eventually, he gave up.
Nearly $10 million was redirected from FEMA.
Has the bank joined the immigration crackdown, or is this just a case of bad customer service?
The federal government has run up a deficit of $684 billion this year. The CBO predicts that number will exceed $1 trillion in 2019.
The program's goals might be admirable, but the reality is a whole different story.
Is hush money to a politician's mistress "for the purpose of influencing an election" or "personal use"?
Adam Winger used city credit cards to buy hundreds of gift cards, which he then used for in-app purchases.
The four justices allegedly spent more than $1 million in taxpayer funds on office renovations.
With its supply permanently capped at 21 million units, Satoshi Nakamoto's invention may turn out to be the best form of money ever conceived.
Chairman Jerome Powell says they are putting their money in risky, unbacked investments built on reckless speculation.
The costs incurred by the Secret Service to protect President Trump's two oldest sons is astounding.
The country has liberalized one aspect of the disastrous capital controls established by Hugo Chavez in 2003.
This will hurt innocent people. It may harm legal businesses. And it won't actually work.
We don't need UBI to enable people to tell bosses to take the job and shove it.
Texas Tech University's Robert Murphy vs. Cato's George Selgin at the Soho Forum
Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer turned over the company and seven other executives in exchange for leniency.
Officials want to track every financial transaction you make, and they see cryptocurrencies and cash alike as barriers to achieving that goal.
Joseph Stiglitz is the George Costanza of economists: Every instinct he has, do the opposite.
Why didn't the Obama administration do anything?
Q&A with Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt on bitcoin as "regulatory arbitrage."
Bitcoin, gold, and other unofficial means of exchange get free marketing from idiotic officials.
Opponents and proponents of folding money agree that the stuff protects you from the state-but they differ about the value of that protection.
Also throws out money laundering charges against Miami man Michell Espinoza, who was arrested for selling bitcoin to a cop.
The future economy is going to be self-managed, says former SEIU leader Andy Stern. Get out of its way-but give us a universal basic income.
For the first time, most members in the U.S. Congress are millionaires.
Alexander Hamilton, meanwhile, will stay on the $10 note.
Female employees at Amazon earn 99.9 cents for every dollar men in the same positions make.
College basketball's tournament is compelling, but ethically compromised.
Getting rid of the $100 bill is one more trim on our freedom to be left alone.
Harvard and other elites take aim at any possibility of financial privacy in the name of curbing criminals flashing their big cash.