Can Javier Milei Make Argentina Great Again? – new video essay from the Adam Smith Institute
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In 1887 Grover Cleveland vetoed a bill providing relief for a natural disaster due to unconstitutionality
In 1887 Texas was hit with a severe drought that killed many crops and cattle. Congress attempted to pass a bill to provide $10,000 in relief to purchase seeds to help the farmers recover. Despite believing the bill to be well intentioned, Grover Cleveland vetoed it because nothing in the Constitution permitted it, and he believed private charity was the better solution to help Americans in need, as opposed to the government. “I can find no warrant for […]
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Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Becerra v. Braidwood Management
Most Supreme Court watchers today were focused on the oral argument in the TikTok case, but that’s not all that was going on at One First Street. Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases: Becerra v. Braidwood Management, Department of Education v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas, and Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch. The first two of these are grants from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the first may […]
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Tweet Scott Lincicome shares his big questions for 2025. A slice: We now know that this is basically what happened in 2024: China’s longstanding economic headwinds—demographics, productivity, debt, social/political control, etc.—combined with continued weakness in local property markets, depressed consumer sentiment, policy-driven industrial overcapacity, investor doubt, and heightened trade tensions to keep China’s economy in the doldrums. (Hooray, central planning!) GMU Econ alum Dominic Pino reports that “price controls have made California wildfire recovery harder.” Two slices: Another […]
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Nevada Judge to Nevada Cops: You Can’t Use This Loophole To Get Around Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
In the first decision of its kind in Nevada, a judge ruled last week that state law enforcement can’t evade stricter requirements for seizing cash and property by partnering with the federal government. The plaintiff in that lawsuit, a Marine veteran named Stephen Lara, had nearly $90,000 in cash seized from him in 2021 by two Nevada Highway Patrol officers. The cops admitted to Lara that there was nothing illegal about carrying large amounts of cash. But they […]
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