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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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The unanimous Supreme Court correctly ruled that a foreign “windfall profits” tax was an income tax for which US taxpayers should get credit.
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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.
Taxes, Economics, and Halloween
October 31, 2011.
Four Reasons Why Keynesian ‘Stimulus’ Does Not Work
October 28, 2011.
Grading Perry’s Flat Tax: Some Missing Homework, but a Solid B+
October 25, 2011.
Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Tax Plan: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
October 18, 2011.
The Laffer Curve Wins Again: Snooki 1 – IRS 0
October 17, 2011.
New Video Has Important Message: Freedom and Prosperity vs. Big Government and Stagnation
October 13, 2011.
Look Before You Leap on Cain’s 9-9-9 Tax Plan
October 12, 2011.
Will Republicans Choose Sequester Savings or a Supercommittee Surrender?
October 10, 2011.
New Video Shows the War on Poverty Is a Failure
October 3, 2011.
Happy Fiscal New Year (with an Unhappy Obama Hangover)
October 1, 2011.
Tim Geithner: The Forrest Gump of World Finance
September 29, 2011.
Explaining the Perverse Impact of Double Taxation With a Chart
September 27, 2011.
Eight Questions for Protectionists
September 24, 2011.
The Federal Reserve, the ‘Twist,’ Inflation, QE3, and Pushing on a String
September 22, 2011.
One Simple Reason (and Two Easy Steps) to Show Why Obama’s Soak-the-Rich Tax Hikes Won’t Work
September 20, 2011.
CPAs Celebrate as Obama Proposes to Create a Turbo-Charged Alternative Minimum Tax
September 19, 2011.
September 13, 2011.
September 12, 2011.
Obama’s Economic Policy: From Tragedy to Farce
September 9, 2011.
Government and Job Creation: Help or Hindrance?
September 8, 2011.
Grading the Likely Components of Obama’s New Stimulus Plan
September 7, 2011.
Obama’s Failure on Jobs: Four Damning Charts
September 7, 2011.
Are Tax Havens Moral or Immoral?
September 6, 2011.
Keynesian Economics in a Cartoon
September 1, 2011.