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The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States
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Featuring Jagadeesh Gokhale, Cato Institute; David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harold Pollack, University of Chicago; and Stephen C. Goss, Social Security Administration; moderated by Michael D. Tanner, Cato Institute.
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As concern over climate change grows, policymakers face a difficult question: How much should society spend today to protect future generations against the unknown risks emissions create? In the new issue of Regulation, Bob Litterman, Robert S. Pindyck, Daniel Sutter, Shi-Ling Hsu, and David R. Henderson explore a variety of approaches.
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Confusing an “average wage” with a “typical wage” is an interminable and mischievous fallacy.
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The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
Thanks to Cato’s Caleb Brown for this graphic reminder of then-candidate Barack Obama’s hairpin backflip on the question of telecom immunity—one that was to prefigure his backflips on a long list of other surveillance and civil liberties issues.
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