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Since its passage in 1970, the Bank Secrecy Act has fundamentally transformed the relationship between Americans and their financial institutions, creating an unprecedented surveillance apparatus that monitors virtually every financial transaction.

Congress has spent $15 trillion through emergency designations since 1991, which is equivalent to half the entire publicly held debt of the United States. Emergency designations have enabled more than $12.5 trillion in spending since 1991--comparable ...

Free markets are a core principle of libertarianism, and data are a central element to furthering economic freedom.Accurate data are essential to researchers of all philosophies--liberal, conservative, and libertarian--and all researchers must rely ...

Listen to Teaching in the Age of AI: Policy Insights and Classroom Applications for Civil Discourse from Cato Event Podcast. Artificial intelligence is evolving quickly, shaping conversations both in policy circles and in classrooms. On one hand, ...

Trade between belligerents during wartime should not occur. After all, exchanged goods might help enemies secure the upper hand on the battlefield. Yet as history shows, states rarely choose either war or trade. In fact, they frequently engage in ...

Join us for a special event and live recording of Conversations with Tyler to celebrate the launch of False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933-1947, the highly anticipated new book by economist George Selgin.In this groundbreaking ...

Listen to Cato Club Connects: September 24, 2025 from Cato Event Podcast. The United States faces the depletion of Social Security's trust fund in 2033, making it imperative for policymakers to pursue practical reform options that balance fiscal ...

Listen to Panel III: Bill of Rights from Cato Event Podcast. Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the US Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release . ...

Listen to Panel IV: Looking Ahead: October Term 2025 from Cato Event Podcast. Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the US Constitution. We celebrate that event each year . ...

Listen to Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture from Cato Event Podcast. Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the US Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the ...