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Donald Shoup’s Crusade to Reimagine Urban Parking
“Free” parking has a huge cost. That’s the message that UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup, who died last week, took to the world. He lived to see his research gain credibility and influence, bit by bit, until just a few…
Free Speech Relies on Emotional Resilience
Last year, the American College Student Freedom, Progress, and Flourishing Survey polled 2,250 undergraduate students from 131 colleges across the United States in order to understand the state of free speech and viewpoint…
Inflation Accelerated At The End Of Biden’s Term As Trump Seeks To Cut Spending, Regulations And Boost Production
By Robert Romano Both consumer and producer inflation accelerated as former President Joe Biden left office in January and President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Jan. 20, to annual rates of 3 percent and 3.5 percent,…
Rescore the Green New Deal (IRA) Tax Cuts to Find Room for Real Cuts
By Rick Manning Former President Joe Biden and his Democrat cronies piled a series of green incentive tax cuts into the faux Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. Now that those government subsidies masquerading as tax cuts have…
The LA fires were man-made, but not like they say
The political fires that ignited with President Donald Trump’s second inauguration shifted national attention away from the devastating wildfires in California. Now entirely contained, the Los Angeles County fires should not…
Watch Craig Rucker as President Trump executive orders curtail wind turbines
CFACT, founded in 1985 by Craig Rucker and the late (truly great) David Rothbard, examines the relationship between human freedom, and issues of energy, environment, climate, economics, civil rights and more. View all posts
Why a Ground Game Is Needed to Defeat DEI
The swift rollback of diversity and environmental priorities in the US has been nothing short of breathtaking. Corporate America seems to be tripping over itself to scale back its commitment to DEI. International net zero…
Trump’s Trade of Munitions for Mining Rights Would Hasten Bretton Woods III
US President Donald Trump has proposed supplying Ukraine with ongoing military aid in exchange for access to its abundant reserves of rare earth minerals — elements critical to high-tech industries and defense applications.…
GAO Estimated $233 Billion To $521 Billion Fraud Annually in 2024 As Court Clarifies Treasury Can Access Its Own Systems. Trump Should Just Publish Everything.
By Robert Romano U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas of the Southern District of New York on Feb. 11 clarified that the U.S. Treasury including Secretary Scott Bessent is allowed to access his own department’s payment…
Americans Have Had Enough of the Federal Government Funneling Taxpayer Dollars into Nonsensical Foreign Aid Programs
By Manzanita Miller President Donald Trump’s second term kicked off with intense scrutiny on federal spending, including shining light on the shrouded United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID doles…
