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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 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.
October 5, 2011.
To Spur Technology Innovation, Stop Pulling on the Rope
October 5, 2011.
Will GPS Tracking Render the Fourth Amendment Quaint?
October 4, 2011.
Transparency and Its Discontents
October 3, 2011.
Congress on Transparency: ‘Needs Improvement’
September 23, 2011.
Rating Congress on Transparency
September 22, 2011.
September 21, 2011.
U.S. Open Government Action Plan Introduced
September 20, 2011.
September 20, 2011.
September 6, 2011.
August 22, 2011.
Free Speech? What’s Free Speech?
August 19, 2011.
Welcoming a New Common Noun: ‘the Mubarak’
August 15, 2011.
2,000 Deaths per Year … for the Environment
August 12, 2011.
Behavior Detection as Interrogation
August 11, 2011.
“A Closed ‘Super Congress’? Oh, I Don’t Think So.”
August 5, 2011.
More Cost Data and Better Debt Insight
August 4, 2011.
July 29, 2011.
How’s that Big-Government Environmentalism Workin’ For Ya’?
July 27, 2011.
Finns Begin a Quixotic Quest for Prevention
July 26, 2011.
TSA’s Partial Retreat From Full-Body Scans
July 21, 2011.
DHS’ Contempt of Congress and Constitution
July 20, 2011.
Strip-Search Machines: A Loss Seeds the Win
July 19, 2011.
Obama Administration Fights Privacy Act Liability
July 13, 2011.
Relegate Mandatory Data Retention to the Dustbin of History
July 13, 2011.