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A Hard Look at China's Soft Power
David Isenberg on China's trade and foreign policy on Asia Times Online.
McCain-Clinton 2008
Jerry Taylor and Jagadeesh Gokhale on the gas tax holiday in the National Review (Online).
The Cult of the Presidency
Gene Healy on the expansion of presidential powers in Reason.
Congress Messing with Your HSA
Michael F. Cannon on health savings accounts in the Orange County Register.
Arnold Must Wield the Knife
Elizabeth Karasmeighan on California's state budget in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Cato Daily Dispatch

May 15, 2008

Polar Bears Designated as Threatened with Extinction

Schwarzenegger Presents Budget Plan

BRIC Nations Consider Alliance

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May 16, 2008

Yon Goicoechea Receives 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty

Yon Goicoechea on Thursday accepted the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, the leading international award for significant contributions to advancing individual liberty. Mr. Goicoechea, leader of the pro-democracy student movement in Venezuela, plays a pivotal role in organizing and voicing opposition to the erosion of human and civil rights in his country. "Yon Goicoechea is making an extraordinary contribution to liberty," said Edward Crane, President of the Cato Institute. "We hope the Friedman Prize will help further his non-violent advocacy for basic freedoms in an increasingly militaristic and anti-democratic Venezuela."

Two Views on the Gas Tax Holiday

With average prices for a gallon of gas continuing to rise from already record levels, John McCain and Hillary Clinton have proposed plans to temporarily suspend the federal gasoline tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Cato is pleased to offer some realistic assessments of this proposal.

The Rise of Disaster Polemics

Since its publication last fall, Canadian author Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism has become a bible for young anti-capitalist activists. Klein argues that capitalism goes hand in hand with dictatorship and brutality and that dictators and other unscrupulous political figures take advantage of "shocks" — catastrophes real or manufactured — to consolidate their power and implement unpopular market reforms. In "The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics," Cato scholar Johan Norberg argues that Klein's analysis is hopelessly flawed at virtually every level.


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