About 10 years ago, economist Matthew Mitchell and the Mercatus Center published a short video titled “The Wrath of CON: How Certificate-of-Need Laws Affect Access to Health Care.” The video…
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For the past few years, the world has been falling into what Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)’s Matthew Harwood calls a “free speech recession.” It’s tempting for those…
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The list of Trump administration foreign-policy moves in recent weeks is long. It conducted an attack on Venezuela, brought President Nicolas Madura and his wife Cilia Flores to stand trial…
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Oracle shares were higher on Monday after the company disclosed plans to raise between $45 billion and $50 billion in funding as it accelerates investment in cloud infrastructure designed to…
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The Ibovespa, Brazil’s stock market benchmark, has started the year strongly, prompting XP Investimentos to raise its base-case year-end target for the index to 190,000 points from 185,000. The revision…
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US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States and India have agreed to a landmark trade deal following a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The…
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Shares of SanDisk Corp. extended their sharp rally on Monday, climbing more than 16% as investors continued to respond to the flash memory maker’s stronger-than-expected quarterly results and an increasingly…
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Europe started the week on a bruising note. From Whitehall belt-tightening to Paris finally muscling a budget through gridlock, policymakers are choosing survival over ambition. Markets are exhaling, but only…
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Elon Musk said on Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence group xAI, tying together two of his most ambitious ventures as he seeks to build increasingly powerful AI…
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In August 2025, the United States hit India with 50% tariffs, the steepest levied on any Asian economy as trade tensions with Washington boiled over. Six months later, those duties…