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October 11, 2023 State-Level Strategies for Constraining Spending
States are under more serious constraints than the feds when it comes to spending levels. There are still more steps governments can take to do so. Vance Ginn with the Pelican Institute details some of the ways states can get more control over budgets.
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10 min
October 10, 2023 Counting the Costs NIMBYism Imposes on Everyone Else
It's worth knowing just how costly it is to effectively give the loudest voices at a zoning board meeting the power of the veto. Chris Denson of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation discusses the tax NIMBYs impose on the rest of us.
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15 min
October 09, 2023 State Drug Sentencing amid Increasing Fentanyl Overdoses
Misconceptions about the motivations of drug dealers and users have likely worsened the increases in drug overdoses. Are state lawmakers rethinking how they approach drug-related sentencing? Lauren Krisai of the Justice Action Network comments.
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14 min
October 08, 2023 When Lawmakers Don't Make the Laws (State Government Edition)
The people who write the rules under which we must live generally ought to be subject to accountability from voters. That's not a controversial proposition, but how it works in practice is more complicated. Daniel Dew of the Pacific Legal Foundation comments.
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12 min
October 07, 2023 High Interest Rates and the Debt Doom Loop
The ability for the U.S. to escape the consequences of high spending and massive debt may be declining faster than conventional wisdom would have predicted. Cato's Norbert Michel and Romina Boccia detail the issue.
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18 min
October 06, 2023 Pregnant Workers, Fairness, and Maximizing Workplace Flexibility
So many well-intentioned laws run into basic incentive problems. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act appears to be another law aimed at protecting many women from mistreatment that may create perverse incentives. Vanessa Brown Calder comments.
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13 min
October 05, 2023 An Overbroad Federal Swipe at 'Gamified' Investing
New tech threatens the ability for investors to understand what they're doing, or so the leaders of the SEC seem to believe. But what would their proposed federal regulations do to change that? Jack Solowey and Jennifer Schulp comment.
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12 min
October 04, 2023 The Unprecedented Removal of the U.S. House Speaker … and What’s Next
The U.S. House is without a Speaker after a small revolt within the Republican Party that removed Kevin McCarthy from that job. With yet another fight over spending just a few weeks away, Cato’s John Samples and Chad Davis explore what might be coming next.
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21 min
October 03, 2023 Defending Globalization Means Embracing Comparative Advantage
When politicians decry the production that's done overseas, it's a good time to take stock of a most basic economic concept: comparative advantage. Don Boudreaux discusses what it means.
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17 min
October 02, 2023 Feds vs. States on Trimming Medicaid Rolls
The Biden White House has urged states to slow the pace of trimming Medicaid enrollees. Why? Rea Hederman of the Buckeye Institute comments.
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10 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…