El Salvador has agreed to scale back its crypto agenda in exchange for a $1.4 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), marking a shift in the country’s quest to become a global cryptocurrency hub. After four years of negotiations, the IMF approved a $1.4 billion Extended Fund Facility loan to be disbursed over […]
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has made a promise: It will go after regulations that slow growth, obstruct innovators and cost American households thousands of dollars each year. Here’s hoping for success. The burden of excessive regulation is hard to measure. We know, for instance, that the Code of Federal Regulations is over 188,000 […]
After California’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect in April, some economists expected affected restaurants to cut jobs. So what actually happened? They not only added workers but did so at a faster pace than fast-food restaurants in the nation as a whole—or at least that was the claim of a research […]
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That didn’t go well:Â Congressional leaders’ plan to quickly pass a bipartisan spending deal to keep the federal government open through March is now in disarray, as Republicans revolt against a quick passage of the 1,547-page bill. The deal unveiled on Monday night called for an additional $100 billion in disaster-related spending, $10 billion in agricultural […]
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[This post is co-authored by Will Baude and Richard Re and cross-posted at Re’s Judicata.] When a new presidential administration begins, the executive branch often changes position on some cases pending before the Supreme Court. But why wait till inauguration day to hear the views of the incoming administration? The TikTok litigation casts this question […]
Some excerpts from Canaan v. Carnegie Mellon Univ., decided Tuesday by Judge Scott Hardy (W.D. Pa.); the opinion is 15,000 words, so this can only give a flavor of the matter. First, the allegations from plaintiff’s Complaint (which, at this stage of the case, the court assumes to be factually accurate in determining whether the […]