January 9, 2020

How Extensive Is FBI Domestic Spying? We’re Trying to Find Out

Cato scholar Pat Eddington's work with FOIA requests suggests that domestic surveillance abuses of groups on the basis of their constitutionally protected right to free speech and association are ongoing.

• How Extensive Is FBI Domestic Spying? We're Trying to Find Out
  By Patrick G. Eddington

Unions Can Disperse Legal Advice. Why Can't Trade Associations?

Labor unions can provide lawyers to represent their members. Why can't trade associations?

• Unions Can Disperse Legal Advice. Why can't Trade Associations?
  By Walter Olson

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Dudley’s Defense of the Fed’s Floor System, Take 2

Former New York Fed President Bill Dudley once again claims that the post-2008 floor system "is much simpler to carry out" than a corridor arrangement. Only he now adds that this is so, "provided there are sufficient reserves in the system."

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Trump the Decider

No one fallible human being should be entrusted with the war powers now vested in the presidency.

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Crescent Dunes: Another Green Flop

The lesson from political daydreams about green new deals such as Crescent Dunes is that the government’s track record at guiding our energy future has been pretty dismal.

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