From Emily Ekins at CATO Survey results show good news for police reform. 63% of Americans support ending qualified immunity for police. The problem is those in power don't - a majority of Republicans, police (as represented by the unions) and the judicial system....
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The Fed Looks Increasingly Concerned About Liquidity and Growth — Even If it Says Otherwise
The Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday, cutting the target federal funds rate by 0.25 percent to a range of 0.5 to 0.75 percent. The Fed's rate-setting committee, the FOMC, has now cut rates three times this year. The committee's rhetoric...
Trump Tariff Tweet Blast Dumps Markets Lower
For the past few weeks stock market investors have been expecting a resolution of the Trump tariff negotiations, with expectations growing that some sort of deal would be settled by the end of this week. Last week Trump officials such as Larry Kudlow even made...
Unlawful Shield
Check out Cato's great new project Unlawful Shield, "Dedicated to Abolishing Qualified Immunity." "Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine invented out of whole cloth by the U.S. Supreme Court that protects government agents, including particularly law enforcement...
6/15/18 Mike Swanson on Jerome Powell Economy, Boom Bust, and Investing
Mike Swanson is interviewed on the economy, boom bust, investing and his article "Is Today Going to be the Day that Jerome Powell Brings a Dovish Surprise?" Mike Swanson runs the website wallstreetwindow.com and is the author of the books Strategic Stock...
A Not So Isolated Incident
Last week police footage went viral of an incident that happened at New Jersey beach. In the video, a 20-year-old woman, Emily Weinman, was punched in the head several times by a police officer while being arrested. The officer’s justification was that Weinman was...
The Story of Gold and Bitcoin: Bulls Make Money and Pigs Get Slaughtered
There is nothing wrong with being a bull in the stock market or a bear for that matter either. Nothing at all in fact. It's about seeing the trend and getting aligned with it. But being a pig in a finanical market will eventually lead one to the slaughterhouse. It's...
The Right to Record and Police Accountability
The New York Police Department’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) reported that over a three-year period, NYPD officers threatened, blocked, and otherwise tried to prevent individuals from recording them in public in the performance of their duties. Almost 100...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...