A young couple celebrates home ownership, an emotional and financial milestone in the American psyche, though it may feel increasingly out of reach. Millions of American homeowners would love to move — if they could pack up the mortgage interest rate they locked in at under four percent. “We hate the area we moved to…
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Segment of a political cartoon from the 1890s, titled “A Confidence Trick.” JM Staniforth 1895. Recently on Facebook, an attractive young woman – or so I judge from the picture accompanying her message – asked me to accept her as a Facebook friend. She assures me that she’s positively enthralled with the messages that I…
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Jeffrey Miron Insider trading is the purchase or sale of securities—typically stocks or bonds—by someone with material non-public information (MNPI) about these companies. MNPI is corporate news or information that has not yet been made public and could impact security prices. Some critics of insider trading argue that it violates the principle of equal opportunity…
Scott Lincicome Skeptics routinely mention “cheap t‑shirts” from abroad as an insufficient counterweight to globalization’s supposed costs. This argument, however, misunderstands the modern global economy and the many people here and abroad involved in making even the simplest of products. So, as part of Cato’s Defending Globalization project and working with a major multinational clothing retailer, we made…
Bakwan jagung adalah salah satu hidangan gorengan yang digemari oleh banyak orang di Indonesia. Renyah di luar dan lembut di dalam, bakwan jagung sering kali menjadi kudapan yang tidak bisa dilewatkan begitu saja. Rasanya yang gurih dengan sentuhan manis dari jagung membuat makanan ini cocok dinikmati dalam berbagai suasana. Artikel ini akan membahas rahasia dan…
Xiaomi kembali mengguncang pasar smartphone dengan peluncuran Xiaomi 13 Ultra, sebuah perangkat flagship yang menawarkan inovasi mutakhir dan performa luar biasa. Dengan menonjolkan kemampuan fotografi profesional serta spesifikasi kelas atas, Xiaomi 13 Ultra menjadi salah satu smartphone paling ditunggu di tahun ini. Tidak hanya ditujukan untuk pengguna kasual, smartphone ini juga menarik perhatian para penggemar…
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Alex Nowrasteh Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently responded to Rep. Tony Gonzalez’s (R‑TX) question on the number of noncitizen criminals on ICE’s docket for removal (deportation) from the United States. The data in the letter have blown up in a big way during the presidential election cycle, with former President Trump highlighting the letter’s…
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In this still from ABC’s Presidential Debate, Pr. Trump makes the statement about VP Harris’s record, which the New Yorker claimed to refute. Sept 10, 2024. A day prior to the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, CNN reported a scoop: in 2019, presidential candidate Kamala Harris told the…
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US and Polish Soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Task Force White Eagle patrol the streets of a village in eastern Afghanistan. November 2010. The Biden administration’s National Security Strategy frames the current international order as one in which the democracies of the world are locked into a Manichean, dualist struggle with autocracies:…
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Ekonomi Sydney, ibu kota negara bagian New South Wales di Australia, adalah salah satu pusat ekonomi terbesar di kawasan Asia-Pasifik. Dengan populasi lebih dari 5 juta jiwa, Sydney berperan penting dalam perekonomian Australia dan memainkan peran signifikan dalam pasar global. Kota ini dikenal sebagai pusat keuangan, perdagangan, dan industri kreatif, yang terus berkembang pesat seiring…
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