Jeffrey A. Singer On December 10, the country’s first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center (OPC) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Providence, Rhode Island. The center, located at 45 Willard Avenue, near the Rhode Island Hospital campus, was established and will be operated by the private non-profit harm reduction organization Project Weber/​RENEW. In July 2021, Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee signed into ...

Michael F. Cannon Via this Cato white paper, I submitted the following recommendations to the “Department of Government Efficiency,” a private-sector organization that will advise President-elect Donald Trump on how to reduce inefficiency in the federal government. The following recommendations would achieve the Democratic goal of limiting the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance and the Republican goal of giving ...

President-elect Trump tangled with a reporter who asked him Monday if he would entertain the idea of preemptive strikes on Iran. Trump, following remarks at Mar-a-Lago, took questions from the media, and one reporter asked if he would target Iran’s nuclear facilities, ‘Well I can’t tell you that. I mean, it’s a wonderful question, but how can I – am ...

President-elect Trump claims that President Biden’s administration ‘knows what is happening’ regarding unexplained drone sightings over New Jersey, New York and other states. Trump made the statement Monday during a lengthy press conference with reporters at Mar-a-Lago, saying the U.S. military certainly knows the origin of the drones. ‘The government knows what is happening. Look, our military knows where they ...

Good morning and welcome to this week’s Flight Path. The “Go” trend in equities continued again this past week but we saw some weakness as GoNoGo trend painted a few weaker aqua bars. Treasury bond prices experienced a change in trend as a few bars of “Go Fish” gave way to a purple “NoGo” bar. U.S. commodities painted a full week ...

Today Erin looks at the Broadcom (AVGO) chart and compares it to the NVIDIA (NVDA) chart. She shows us the differences between the two and tells you whether she believes AVGO will be the new NVDA, meaning it will perform as NVDA used to perform with a concerted move up nearly everyday. Carl analyzes the market and gives you all ...

The Business Secretary is facing accusations of failing to fully engage with Vauxhall’s parent company Stellantis ahead of its decision to close the van-making plant in Luton—a move that puts up to 1,100 jobs at risk. Critics claim the Government neglected to maintain meaningful dialogue for months despite an early warning of potential closure. Stellantis, which owns the Vauxhall brand, ...

Norbert Michel The Wall Street Journal reports President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers are exploring “pathways to dramatically shrink, consolidate, or even eliminate the top bank watchdogs in Washington.” These kinds of reforms can’t come soon enough. As Cato’s new report to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) explains, US financial markets have too many regulations and too many regulators. Many of the regulations protect incumbent firms, ...

The UK’s labour market is coming under intense strain as the number of applications per advertised job surges dramatically, reflecting deep-rooted economic uncertainties and a tight hiring climate. According to data from talent acquisition platform Tribepad, the average number of applications per vacancy hit 48.7 in November—an astonishing 286% increase on the same month last year. In raw terms, candidates ...

The U.S. Embassy in Syria is urging Americans inside the war-torn country to flee immediately or prepare to ‘shelter in place for extended periods.’  The warning comes as the ‘security situation in Syria continues to be volatile and unpredictable with armed conflict and terrorism throughout the country’ following the downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the embassy said in a ...