The media is trying to frame last week’s indictment of James Comey as a “norm-shattering” use of executive power for personal gain. In truth, it’s just the latest chapter in a much older story: the struggle between elected and unelected ...

Romina Boccia As we predicted about three weeks ago on our Debt Dispatch Substack, the federal government shut down today at 12:01 a.m.  I had a chance to speak with the Washington Post’s Early Brief Author Matthew Choi, who captured ...

Argentina’s central bank dipped into its already-depleted reserves to sell more than $1 billion of the US currency over three days to defend the peso. ...

Ilana Mercer describes how, with the genocide of Gazans almost complete, the media is now reporting on it as a way of absolving itself of its complicity. ...

Was Jackson’s victory over the Second Bank of the United States a triumph for liberty, or did it merely expand federal authority under the guise of constraining it? His legacy is complicated, but there is much we can learn from ...

Jeffrey A. Singer Cato adjunct scholar and California State University-Northridge economics Professor Shirley Svorny (1951–2022) passed away nearly three years ago after a long battle with multiple myeloma. Shirley devoted much of her career to showing how medical licensing laws raise ...

There have been long-standing concerns about the use of Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), particularly relating to sexual harassment allegations. Those concerns have grown with the momentum of the MeToo movement. The use of NDAs stands at a critical crossroads. Imminent and ...

Nivoda, the B2B diamond and gemstone marketplace, has secured a $60 million financing facility from i80 Group to provide embedded trade credit to jewellery retailers across more than 70 countries. The deal addresses a critical shortage of working capital in ...

Greggs is increasing prices on some of its best-known menu items as the bakery chain seeks to offset rising employment costs while managing softer sales growth. From Thursday, customers will pay 5p more for certain baked goods such as the ...

The government will fast-track legislation to permanently ban fracking in the UK, in a move designed to block Reform UK’s pledge to revive the controversial practice. Ed Miliband, energy secretary, confirmed the ban will be introduced as part of the ...