# Cato in the News 

##### News Notes 

#### House Passes Crypto Bill Aligned with Cato Scholarship 

The House of Representatives passed the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, which is aligned in important ways with Cato’s policy recommendations on cryptocurrency market structure. Jack Solowey, a policy analyst in Cato’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives (CMFA), and Jennifer J. Schulp, CMFA director of financial regulation studies, have called for decentralization as a core criterion for differentiating crypto securities and crypto commodities. They also propose safeguards to protect core decentralized finance activities from regulatory interventions.

#### Cato University Returns 

The first event of the relaunched Cato University hosted nearly 100 college and graduate students at George Mason University. They explored classical liberal philosophy and its public policy applications with leading thinkers, including Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Randy Barnett, Georgetown law professor.

#### 2.5 Million Watch Elon Musk Interview at Cato Argentina Conference 

Elon Musk joined Cato senior fellow Johan Norberg for a discussion on innovation, overregulation, and the future of humanity at “The Rebirth of Liberty in Argentina and Beyond,” a conference cohosted by Cato in Buenos Aires in June. Their livestreamed conversation set up the keynote speech of Javier Milei, president of Argentina. Milei’s presence attracted global attention to the event, which promoted the classical liberal ideas that won Milei the presidency. Musk also praised Norberg’s April interview conducted by John Stossel about anti-capitalist myths to his 18 million followers on X.

### Recent Op-Eds

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#### [Yes in My Backyard: The Case for Housing Deregulation ](/commentary/yes-backyard-case-housing-deregulation)

— By Bryan Caplan 

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#### [Why Is the Government Encouraging a Taxpayer Bailout? ](/commentary/why-government-encouraging-taxpayer-bailout)

— By Mark A. Calabria, Thomas Hoenig, Dennis Kelleher, & Aaron Klein 

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#### [Letter to the Editor: The IRS Doesn’t Want a Dollar From You ](/commentary/letter-editor-irs-doesnt-want-dollar-you)

— By Nicholas Anthony 

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#### [The Constitutional Case against Exclusionary Zoning ](/commentary/constitutional-case-against-exclusionary-zoning)

— By Joshua Braver and Ilya Somin 

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#### [Trump and Biden Blame Each Other for Illegal Immigration. But Congress Created It ](/commentary/trump-biden-blame-each-other-illegal-immigration-congress-created-it)

— By David J. Bier 

### TV Highlights

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Clark Neily discusses the Biden administration’s Supreme Court reforms on BBC News’ *Newsday* 

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Cato University event, “The Use and Abuse of State Power,” airs on C‑SPAN 

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Ian Vasquez discusses Cato’s Argentina event, “The Rebirth of Liberty in Argentina and Beyond,” on Reason TV’s *Just Asking Questions* podcast 

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David Bier’s blog post, “U.S. Citizens Were 89% of Convicted Fentanyl Traffickers in 2022,” is cited on the MAX’s *Last Week Tonight* with John Oliver 

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Justin Logan discusses NATO’s 75th anniversary, Ukraine, and what a second Trump term would mean for NATO on France 24’s *The Debate* 

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Scott Lincicome discusses Texas embracing green energy and the politics of electric vehicles on Sinclair Broadcast Group’s *The National Desk* 

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