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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.
NATO Summit Will Reaffirm Afghanistan’s Weakness
May 18, 2012.
U.S. Taxpayers Subsidize Afghan Insurgents
May 8, 2012.
Bin Laden’s Death, One Year On
May 1, 2012.
Great Gaming Russia in Central Asia
April 25, 2012.
It’s Groundhog Day in Afghanistan
April 18, 2012.
“…the American homeland is the planet”
April 17, 2012.
March 29, 2012.
Americans Favor Accelerated Withdrawal from Afghanistan
March 15, 2012.
March 14, 2012.
Iranian Rhetoric: Heard and Unheard
March 12, 2012.
Bombing Iran Risks Mission Creep
March 8, 2012.
February 29, 2012.
It’s Time to Cut Our Losses in Afghanistan
February 27, 2012.
February 24, 2012.
February 8, 2012.
Egypt’s Arab Spring, One Year Later
February 2, 2012.
War Vets and the New Hampshire Primary
January 9, 2012.
December 7, 2011.
December 2, 2011.
A Step Forward in Afghanistan, If We Are Willing to Take It
November 1, 2011.
October 31, 2011.
October 13, 2011.