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March 14, 2025 Price Transparency Is a Consequence of Robust Health Care Markets
Legislative attempts to compel price transparency from health care providers ignores an important factor: Price transparency emerges naturally from well-functioning markets. Michael Cannon explains.
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15 min
March 13, 2025 Christian Asylum Seekers Thwarted by Trump Immigration Policy
Donald Trump created a "faith office" to protect religious liberty and a DOJ task force to combat anti-Christian discrimination, but his immigration policy leaves foreign Christians facing persecution without a way to escape to the US. David Bier explains.
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13 min
March 12, 2025 Perttu v. Richards
When a prisoner accuses a prison official of sexual abuse, what do courts owe him? In Perttu v. Richards, the Supreme Court will weigh in. Cato's Mike Fox comments.
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16 min
March 11, 2025 Ending the Inflation Reduction Act Could Save Trillions in Handouts
The Inflation Reduction Act didn't do much to stem inflation, but it did commit taxpayers to decades of special handouts for preferred technologies. Cato's Travis Fisher and Joshua Loucks discuss their new paper describing the budgetary impact.
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11 min
March 10, 2025 Capping Credit Card Interest Is Another Bad Idea That Won't Die
Capping credit card interest would punish less creditworthy people and breed new life into the ranks of more unsavory lenders. Nick Anthony and Norbert Michel comment on the new proposal from Senators Sanders and Hawley.
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13 min
March 07, 2025 Trade, Tariffs, and Our Big Spending Congress
The tariff policies preferred by President Trump will be a "disaster" for the United States according to Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. We discussed trade, tariffs, and his hope to make spending cuts identified by DOGE permanent.
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17 min
March 06, 2025 Federal Spending Today: Budget Gimmicks and Increasing Debt

The feds spend too much. It doesn't appear the Republican-controlled U.S. House is doing much about it. Romina Boccia explains.
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15 min
March 05, 2025 The White House's Confused & Chilling Message on AI Regulation
In Europe, Vice President J.D. Vance issued speech-threatening and trade-restricting demands for future American AI systems. Matt Mittlesteadt comments.
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19 min
March 04, 2025 Corporate Welfare in the Federal Budget
“Corporate welfare” programs burden taxpayers and undermine economic growth. Chris Edwards has identified $181-billion in these useless subsidies.
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11 min
March 03, 2025 The Federal Trade Commission Gears up to Punish Tech Platforms
The Federal Trade Commission appears to be preparing multiple lines of attack against the autonomy of big tech firms in the name of cracking down on content moderation. Why? David Inserra and Jenniffer Huddleston comments.
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16 min

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Every Tuesday on The Cato Weekly Podcast, leading scholars and policy analysts from the Cato Institute delve into the big ideas shaping our world: individual liberty, limited government, free…