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Patrick J. Michaels on global warming data.
Senate Health Reform Plan Prescribes Heavy Tax Dose
by Michael F. Cannon.
Time to Wind Down the War on Drugs
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by Benjamin H. Friedman

"This Week in Government Failure"
by Tad DeHaven

December 5, 2009

How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete

During the past few decades, a truly global division of labor has emerged, presenting opportunities for specialization, collaboration, and exchange on scales once unimaginable. But trade and investment policy has not kept pace with these remarkable changes in commercial reality. In a new study, Cato scholar Daniel J. Ikenson argues that governments and policymakers should eliminate trade barriers and commit to policies that nurture the promise of our highly integrated global economy.

The Global Warming Email Controversy

The environmental community has been abuzz over emails and other documents hacked from a UK climate-change research center. The documents suggest a deliberate campaign to exclude from scientific journals opinions that challenge global warming as being human caused.

Cato scholar and climatologist Patrick J. Michaels, mentioned prominently and negatively in the emails, has been consistent in his view: "Global warming is indeed real, but it is also a very complicated and difficult issue that can provoke very unwise policy in response to political pressure. Drastic action is unwarranted at this time."


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