Congress and the Federal Reserve Could Be Setting Us Up for Economic Disaster
If lawmakers keep spending like they are, and if the Fed backs down from taming inflation, then the government may create a perfect storm.
If lawmakers keep spending like they are, and if the Fed backs down from taming inflation, then the government may create a perfect storm.
The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.
While other pandemic policies have ended, the migration measure has “outlived [its] shelf life,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote yesterday.
Stanford University psychologist Keith Humphreys misconstrues libertarianism and ignores its critique of prohibition's deadly impact.
The decision doesn't actually require continuation of the policy, but will have that effect indirectly. Justice Neil Gorsuch's dissent explains why the Court was wrong to take this step.
Landlords say that nearly three years of eviction moratoriums is forcing some property owners out of the rental business entirely.
The city has not yet announced whether it will fight the order in court.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that future deficits will explode. But there's a way out.
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Once the government has an excuse to electronically track everywhere you've been and everyone you've been near, abuses are predictable.
Elon Musk reignited the GOP’s interest to bring charges against Anthony Fauci.
The agency is determined to ban the flavors that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer. For the children.
Another officer claims to have been laid out just by being close to the drug. That’s not how it works.
Report: “Half of democratic governments around the world are in decline.”
The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences.
Fintech platforms facilitated fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, according to a new congressional report.
Naloxone could be available without a prescription by spring.
Putting the district's train system back on track will take more than better bureaucracy.
The federal government continues to be very bad at telling people what and how to eat.
State actors are increasingly willing to seize children even with little evidence of child abuse.
College students should be able to use their own judgment on COVID boosters, not be forced into them by learning institutions.
The long-term economic and social impacts of zero-COVID can't be reversed as easily.
It's especially outrageous when considering the billions of dollars in fraud that took place thanks to COVID-19 relief programs.
Making it easier for scientists to study marijuana is a far cry from the liberalization that most Americans want.
You can’t turn lives and economies off and on without inflicting lingering harm.
"You have this looming power over you that essentially can end your career," says Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya.
After losing access to opioids, many patients can’t live with constant pain.
Men in monogamous relationships may get clearance to give.
Administrative bloat leads to increased indifference to struggling students.
In times of public health crises, government red tape and misguided communication make matters worse.
Employment is an ultimatum game, where playing along might get workers less than employers, but refusing to play gets everyone zero.
The policy has some bipartisan support, despite the fact that it has mostly been a failure since its inception.
Elon Musk's rescission of the platform's prior policy, which forbade dissent from official guidance, is consistent with his promise of lighter moderation.
Last week, a Kansas judge halted the enforcement of a law requiring a doctor to be in the same room as a patient taking abortion pills—a move hailed by abortion advocates as an important step to increase medication abortion access in the state.
Given the harms caused, lessons should be learned from China’s people, not its government.
From the sounds of it, the Air Force's attorneys didn't think too carefully about how to respond to Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) claims.
Too many Western governments want to follow in the footsteps of authoritarians when it comes to tech privacy.
The president has urged the Chinese government to respect the rights of anti-lockdown demonstrators. He actively encouraged the Canadian government to end the trucker protests.
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These are the people who showed up when the economy was shut down by the government, working in jobs labeled "essential."
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
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The state is threatening to punish doctors whose advice deviates from the "scientific consensus."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded some state challenges to the COVID relief bill were not justiciable, but reaches the merits in one case and finds the law lacking.