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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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More Bang for Your Buck
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.
May 17, 2013.
May 14, 2013.
Heritage Immigration Study and Government Spending
May 7, 2013.
Washington Sport: Throwing Competitors under the Bus
May 6, 2013.
Government Spending Up, Private GDP Down
April 30, 2013.
April 19, 2013.
Simplifying the Tax Code by Fixing the Base
April 15, 2013.
April 12, 2013.
Obama’s Budget: Spending Too High, But Bush Was Worse
April 10, 2013.
Keynesianism and Labor Markets: United States vs. Canada
March 22, 2013.
New Estimates for Effective Corporate Tax Rates
March 22, 2013.
Corporate Taxes: Low Rates, High Revenues in Canada
March 22, 2013.
March 6, 2013.
Herbert Hoover Was No Penny Pincher
March 5, 2013.
Are Spending Cuts Good Politics?
February 19, 2013.
February 13, 2013.
Federal Infrastructure for Private Profit
February 11, 2013.
Federal Spending Has Always Been Wasteful
February 5, 2013.
Brick Wall of Local Bureaucracy
January 25, 2013.
Obama Overplays “We” in Inaugural Speech
January 22, 2013.
Hostess Bankruptcy: What Role Did Policy Play?
November 16, 2012.
Cut State Debt; End the Muni-Bond Exemption
November 2, 2012.
Economic Lessons from Obituaries
October 23, 2012.
Water: Excess of Subsidies, Lack of Markets
October 18, 2012.
Election Pamphlets Raise Questions
October 3, 2012.