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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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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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Those who denounce “profits” in education don’t understand the role of profits in a market.
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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.
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Creating a Human Freedom Index
January 8, 2013.
A Map of Economic Freedom in India
January 8, 2013.
November 30, 2012.
Did Chávez Win the Elections? Is Venezuela a Democracy?
October 8, 2012.
The U.S. Takes a Dive in Economic Freedom of the World Index
September 18, 2012.
A Comprehensive List of Hyperinflations in History
August 15, 2012.
July 23, 2012.
Conservative Government Makes Spain One of Europe’s Highest Taxed Countries
February 29, 2012.
December 19, 2011.
New Video: Ending the Global War on Drugs
December 14, 2011.
Palestine To Adopt Chilean Private Pension Model
November 22, 2011.
October 27, 2011.
Vicente Fox on Legalizing Drugs
October 24, 2011.
Advice to a Free Libya on Turning the Resource Curse Into a Blessing
October 20, 2011.
Why Slovakia May Not Support Europe’s Bailout Plan
October 11, 2011.
The Decline in Global Economic Freedom
September 20, 2011.
Questioning the Beijing Consensus
July 6, 2011.
When Che Guevara Met Nat Hentoff
June 9, 2011.
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May 20, 2011.
May 17, 2011.
Thirty Years of Private Social Security in Chile
May 5, 2011.
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