• News Release: U.S. Is World's Sixth-freest Economy, Yearly Study Says (September 14, 2009)

  WASHINGTON -- The United States is the sixth-freest economy in the world, according to yearly rankings released today by the Cato Institute and the Canada-based Fraser Institute. The same report concludes…

• News Release: Selection Committee Announced for the 2010 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty (September 11, 2009)

  The Cato Institute today announced the international committee to select the fifth recipient of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, a $500,000 biennial award presented to an individual for…

• News Release: Cato Institute to Launch Ad Campaign Against Government-Run Health Care (July 22, 2009)

  The Cato Institute will launch an ad campaign Thursday highlighting under-reported poll data showing Americans' concerns that current health care reform plans will raise costs, limit choice and reduce the…

• News Release: Chávez Tries to Shut Down Pro-Free Market Educational Conference (May 27, 2009)

  CAUCAGUA, VENEZUELA -- A Cato Institute educational seminar fell victim to an attempt by the Venezuelan government to shut it down for expressing ideas critical of the Chávez regime. Numerous…

• News Release: John Cochrane Joins the Cato Institute (May 22, 2009)

  University of Chicago economist John Cochrane has joined the Cato Institute as an adjunct scholar. Cochrane has done pioneering work on health insurance markets, demonstrating how market innovation can solve…

• News Release: Vladimir Bukovsky Joins the Cato Institute (May 21, 2009)

  Author and Soviet-era political dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow. "Vladmir personifies the struggle for freedom that animates the Cato Institute's mission," said Cato founder…

• News Release: Harvard Economist Jeffrey Miron and Capitol Hill Veteran Mark Calabria Join the Cato Institute's Economic Policy Team (April 20, 2009)

  Jeffrey Miron, Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard's Department of Economics, has joined the Cato Institute as a Senior Fellow.  "I am delighted to be working with Cato," Miron said.…

• News Release: Tucker Carlson Joins the Cato Institute (February 23, 2009)

  Noted columnist and television commentator Tucker Carlson has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow.  "I've admired the Cato Institute since I first read its publications, passed around like samizdat…

• News Release: The Biggest Check Ever Signed (February 17, 2009)

  The Obama Administration has banked a lot of political capital on the economic "stimulus" package to be signed into law today—and no doubt will try to give the measure credit…

• News Release: Four Obama Statements That Deserve Closer Scrutiny (February 10, 2009)

  1.      "[I]f you delay acting on an economy of this severity, then you potentially create a negative spiral that becomes much more difficult for us to get out of. We…

• News Release: Will Drug Violence Make Mexico a Failed State? (February 9, 2009)

  While U.S. leaders focus on Afghanistan, Iran and other problems in distant regions, there is an alarming security problem brewing right next door. Violence in Mexico, mostly related to the…

• News Release: Mr. President, We ARE Hungry for Change…So Stop Spending Money Like Bush (February 9, 2009)

  In selling his big-spending ideas for reviving the U.S. economy, President Obama on Thursday night chastised "the same policies that, for the last eight years, doubled our national debt, and…

• News Release: Nat Hentoff Joins the Cato Institute (February 4, 2009)

  Nat Hentoff, one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment, has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow.  "The core of libertarianism is a defense of free speech,"…

• News Release: Daschle Loves Big Government — If Someone Else is Paying (February 3, 2009)

  The Tom Daschle imbroglio is instructive on several levels. From a policy perspective, it is an indictment of a convoluted tax code that simultaneously hinders compliance by honest people and…

• News Release: The Human Cost of America's Drug War (February 2, 2009)

  The large and growing problem of drug-related violence on the southern U.S. border has finally seeped into the news cycle.  The U.S. State Department has issued warnings for Americans traveling…

• News Release: Trade Lessons Unheeded (January 29, 2009)

  Leaving aside the many other disastrous implications of the pork-laden "stimulus" bill, here are some thoughts about its impact on international trade. For all practical purposes there is no difference…

• News Release: What You REALLY Need to Know About the Stimulus (January 28, 2009)

  President Obama says "economists from across the political spectrum agree" on the need for massive government spending to stimulate the economy. In fact, many economists disagree. Hundreds of them, including…

• News Release: Why Obama Needs to Close Gitmo (January 22, 2009)

  "Using closed courts to try suspected terrorists plays the propaganda game in exactly the way our enemies want, and cheapens American justice on the world stage.  Terrorism and insurgency constitute…

• News Release: SCHIPing Away at Sustainable Federal Spending (January 15, 2009)

  Expanding SCHIP is bad medicine for the intended beneficiaries and for taxpayers.  SCHIP is a costly, poorly targeted, and unproven strategy for improving child health.  In addition, SCHIP crowds out…

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