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Solveig Singleton The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) regulates banks and other financial services. The Dodd-Frank Act gave the Bureau the power to...
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Tad DeHaven and Molly Nixon The settlement in Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, in which the president was effectively both plaintiff...
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Norbert J. Michel and Christian Kruse House Financial Services Chairman French Hill (R‑AR), Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D‑CA), and other members of the House...
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Ian Vásquez and Marcos Falcone The US indictment of Raúl Castro today raises hope for an end to the Castro tyranny, something that ideally...
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Marcos Falcone On May 15, the Cato Institute hosted a policy forum titled “Has the Time Come for Dollarization in the Americas?” featuring John...
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Matthew Cavedon Last week, I blogged in support of reviving private criminal prosecutions. The state’s monopoly on bringing criminal charges arose late historically and...
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Michael F. Cannon (Source: Jfinch, Wikimedia Commons) Suppose Congress funds Social Security entirely by taxing the wealthy, who would never spend money in a...
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Matthew Cavedon On May 17, Commonwealth Attorney G. Ryan Mehaffey sent the Spotsylvania County sheriff a letter saying Virginia’s new ban on “assault weapons”...
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Molly Nixon The Constitution’s framers recognized that the pardon power was liable to abuse, but they rejected proposed constraints on it—trusting, as Alexander Hamilton...
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Jeffrey Miron The One Laptop Per Child program was supposed to bridge the digital divide for children in developing countries. To assess the long-term...
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David J. Bier You can find my written testimony here. The video below gives my prepared remarks: Chairman McClintock, Ranking Member Jayapal, and distinguished...
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Patrick G. Eddington Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed SB 749 into law on Thursday, May 14, making Virginia one of the latest states to...
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Tad DeHaven President Trump’s latest financial disclosures do not prove that he personally timed investments around his administration’s decision-making. That’s not the point, though. ...
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