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In the new issue of Cato Policy Report, Cato President and CEO John A. Allison argues that the Federal Reserve is increasing the long-term risk in our financial system through both its monetary and regulatory policies. Also in this issue, James D. Gwartney looks at the incomplete “public choice revolution,” and explains how mainstream economics is leaving both current students and the general public with a misleading, false, and romantic view of government and the operation of the democratic political process.
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Qatar is much in the news, as the small Persian Gulf sheikdom attempts to extend its influence. It promoted revolution in Libya and is...
A new paper disputes the claim that Congress must grant the president greater authority to go after terrorist groups.
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The treaty power cannot be used to expand Congress’s constitutional authority, which remains limited to those enumerated in Article I.
Iran has shown it is sensitive to humanitarian political pressure that does not involve sabre rattling.

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