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"Ignatius on Pakistan: Actually, We May Have Only Had One Year"
by Malou Innocent
"I Second That Skepticism"
by Jim Harper
"Freshman Republicans Switch from Tea to Kool-Aid"
by Tad DeHaven
American Nightmare: How Government Undermines The Dream of Homeownership
The American Dream turned into a nightmare when the housing bubble burst, and people have been trying to figure out who to blame — Greedy bankers? Corrupt politicians? Ignorant homeowners? In American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership, Cato scholar Randal O'Toole explores the forces at play in the housing market and shows how we can rebuild the American dream of homeownership by eliminating federal, state, and local policies that distort the free market for housing.
- American Nightmare: How Government Undermines The Dream of Homeownership, by Randal O'Toole
JPMorgan Losses Show the System Works
Unsurprisingly, President Obama and others have used the recent $2 billion loss by JPMorgan Chase as a call for more regulation. What the president and his allies miss is that recent events at JPMorgan illustrate how the system should — and does — work. Argues Cato scholar Mark A. Calabria, "Just as the Dodd-Frank Act used the cover of a crisis to reward special interests and ignore the actual fault lines in our financial system, President Obama and others are attempting to use JPMorgan's recent losses to cover up and distract from regulatory failings."
- "JPMorgan Losses Do Not Make the Case for Regulation," by Mark A. Calabria
- "Where's the Accountability?," by Michael D. Tanner
- "Too Big to Manage," by David Boaz
Ending Congestion by Refinancing Highways
Although gasoline taxes have long been the main source of funding for building, maintaining, and operating America's network of highways, roads, and streets, the tax is at best an imperfect user fee. In a new paper, Cato scholar Randal O'Toole proposes an affordable vehicle-mile fee system that preserves traveler privacy, eliminates nearly all traffic congestion, adequately funds all federal, state, and local roads, and does so in a revenue-neutral manner after eliminating gas taxes and local road subsidies.
- "Ending Congestion by Refinancing Highways," by Randal O'Toole
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