Category: Economics

Kampanye partai politik adalah salah satu tahapan krusial dalam proses pemilihan umum (pemilu). Melalui kampanye, partai politik berusaha menarik dukungan masyarakat dengan menyampaikan visi, misi, serta program-program yang diusung. Kampanye juga menjadi ajang bagi para kandidat untuk menunjukkan kemampuan dan kepribadian mereka, yang nantinya akan memengaruhi keputusan para pemilih. Dalam artikel ini, kita akan membahas…

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Justin Logan If there’s a lot of ruin in a nation, there can be a lot of BS in a poll. Although campaign veterans and political scientists have learned a lot about polling, many of those conducting polls, and certainly those publicizing their results, either don’t know or don’t care about polls’ limitations. Polls can…

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Jeffrey Miron Most of the debate over COVID-19-inspired mask mandates addresses their alleged benefits, such as reduced illness and death; much less focuses on the potential costs. New research, however, suggests the costs are significant:  Our research … collected survey data from over 4,000 respondents in February 2022…. The survey … asked each respondent to…

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Emily Ekins A new Cato Institute survey of 1,500 Americans conducted by YouGov in the crucial swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin finds exhaustion with the current course of US foreign policy. Most say the US is “too involved” in world affairs and global conflicts (WI: 53%, PA: 50%, MI: 52%); majorities say US…

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Jeffrey Miron Popular opinion views liberalism and conservatism as radically different perspectives about the proper size and scope of government. Liberals and conservatives do advocate dramatically different policies regarding abortion, drugs, guns, economic regulation, climate change, criminal justice, and more. Yet liberal and conservative perspectives are the same in one key respect: both advocate using…

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Acrochordus arafurae, dikenal sebagai Ular Air Arafura, merupakan salah satu spesies ular yang unik dan berbeda dari ular lainnya. Ular ini dapat ditemukan di wilayah perairan air tawar di Australia Utara, Papua Nugini, dan Kepulauan Indonesia Timur, terutama di sekitar Laut Arafura, yang menjadi asal nama spesies ini. Sebagai ular yang sepenuhnya hidup di air,…

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Andrew Gillen Note, this post updates last month’s post. The biggest changes from last month include: The Supreme Court has let the Eighth Circuit’s pause on the SAVE plan remain in place. Reworked the student loan payment pause section, including a new estimate of how much interest was waived ($208 billion). Mass student loan forgiveness…

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Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner August 2024 was a very active month for arms sales with 22 new Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases announced. However, the Taiwan arms sales backlog was unchanged from last month with no new sales announced or deliveries completed. Taiwan is waiting for $20.5 billion of US weapons. Although none of…

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James Bacchus One of the few issues our two major political parties appear to agree on is their mutual embrace of protectionism in international trade. They are both increasingly committed to raising barriers to trade while ignoring the global rules that make freer trade possible. Yet a recent national survey by the Cato Institute shows…

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David Inserra On August 31, Brazil’s judiciary blocked X from being available in the country due to X’s refusal to secretly censor important political content. This includes content from accounts outside Brazil and even sitting legislators. More radically, the rogue justice Alexandre Moraes ordered app stores to block various virtual private networks (VPNs) and created…

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