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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.
Tax Revenues from Legal Marijuana Overstated
April 29, 2013.
Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass!
February 14, 2013.
Cato Responds to the State of the Union 2013
February 13, 2013.
Sheriffs Talk Tough on Second Amendment (Unnecessarily)
January 31, 2013.
A Constrained Gun Control Agenda
January 17, 2013.
Mexico’s Drug War and U.S. Policy: New Cato Video
November 28, 2012.
End, Don’t Cap, the Mortgage Interest Deduction
November 2, 2012.
Drug Warriors Wrong on Marijuana Ballot Initiatives
October 19, 2012.
October 18, 2012.
Obama, Romney Avoiding a Serious Discussion on China
October 10, 2012.
Fair and Balanced, Think Tank Edition
July 26, 2012.
Free Speech Trumps First Amendment
July 23, 2012.
Cato Scholars React to ObamaCare Ruling
June 28, 2012.
June 26, 2012.
Nat Hentoff among Century’s Outstanding Journalists
April 3, 2012.
March 27, 2012.
Cato Institute Scholars on the State of the Union 2012
January 25, 2012.
January 20, 2012.
A Decade of No Child Left Behind
January 6, 2012.
December 15th Is Bill of Rights Day
December 15, 2011.
The Antidumping Lobby’s Power to Destroy Jobs
November 8, 2011.
October 20, 2011.
Frederick Douglass and the Movement for Liberation
October 12, 2011.
Ten Years in Afghanistan Is Enough
October 6, 2011.