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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.
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Slippery Slopes and the New Paternalism
April 5, 2010.
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In Praise of Libertarian Fickleness
February 22, 2010.
Liberty, Even for People You Don’t Like
February 3, 2010.
Campaign Finance Reform? Here Are Some Completely Insane Ideas
January 28, 2010.
January 26, 2010.
January 26, 2010.
Michael Savage: Still Banned in the UK
January 13, 2010.
Blasphemy Laws Are an Admission of Failure
January 7, 2010.
Credit Card Dementia and Boundary Cases
January 6, 2010.
A Free Press Only Counts if It’s on Dead Trees
December 2, 2009.
The Swiss Minaret Ban: Some Things Never Change
November 30, 2009.
October 20, 2009.
New at Cato Unbound: Will Wilkinson Discusses Inequality and Justice
October 13, 2009.
Peace? The Promise of Peace? Eh, Close Enough
October 9, 2009.
Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Canada’s Section 13
October 6, 2009.
Preventive Detention: What Would Thomas Jefferson Do?
September 10, 2009.
“Three Amigos” Meet, Drugs on the Agenda
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June 8, 2009.
New at Cato Unbound: Ten Years of Code
May 4, 2009.
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