The Trump administration’s decision to freeze CAFE standards is a defensible move to limit the adverse consequences of an obsolete, imperfect, and costly program.
The Trump Administration has proposed to freeze automobile fuel-economy standards at about 80 percent of the standard set by the Obama administration, thus saving auto buyers money and giving consumers a greater choice in how they save money and save energy.
The EU gave nothing away in Wednesday’s trade “agreement” with the U.S., but it still helped out President Trump, Europeans, and Americans.
A new order from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to limit unfair competition in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland electricity capacity market falls short of the first best option: eliminating subsidies to all electricity generators.
Work just published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Jamie McFarlin (Northwestern University) and several coauthors now shows July temperatures averaged 4-7oC (7-13oF) warmer than the 1952-2014 average over northwestern Greenland from 8 to 10 thousand years ago.
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Why is the American health care system so dysfunctional and costly? How can it be fixed? Overcharged – Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care, a new Cato Institute book, drills into these issues with exceptional energy and power and is the culmination of years of research by authors Charles Silver and David Hyman. Overcharged lays bare the root causes of why health care is so expensive, out of control, and operates with no apparent accountability, and then shows how subjecting our health care system to the same competitive forces that apply to the rest of the economy will result in lower costs and improved access for all.
To encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the Cato Institute published this pocket-size edition.
The Cato Institute offers a wealth of online educational audio and video resources, from self-paced guides on the ideas of liberty and the principles of economics, to exclusive, archived lectures by thinkers such as Milton Friedman and F. A. Hayek. Browse through some highlights of our collections, for personal study or for use in the classroom.
The annual Constitution Day symposium, presented by Cato’s Center for Constitutional Studies, marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day-long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up.
