Norbert Michel In the wake of the March 2023 failures of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, federal agencies released a flurry of reports on April 28. The Federal Reserve (Fed), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) each released their

Mustafa Akyol Today, I have new a piece in National Review: “Turkey’s Election Scenarios: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary.” It is about the fateful elections that Turkey will have this Sunday. (Which we will also discuss tomorrow at a Cato Institute Policy Forum: “Turkey’s Centennial Election: What Is

Ryan Bourne and Sophia Bagley On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a rule to update stock buyback disclosures, igniting the debate over the economics of stock buybacks once again. The rule would require certain stock issuers to provide disclosures of daily repurchase activity on

Daniel Raisbeck Back in August of 2022, I wrote about how a small band of sanctimonious, sophomoric malcontents had—astoundingly—taken over the Chilean state. President Gabriel Boric, who was elected to his country’s highest office in 2021 at the age of 35, had assembled a team of former student activists.

Jai Kedia Recent Gallup polls have found that public confidence in Fed chair, Jerome Powell, is at an all‐​time low, with only 36% of respondents indicating a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence that the Fed chair would right the economy. This low point follows