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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.
Filibuster Needed Now More than Ever
By Gene Healy. DC Examiner. March 10, 2009.
By Ted Galen Carpenter. National Interest (Online). March 9, 2009.
A Short-Lived Affair with the Protectionist Temptress
By Daniel J. Ikenson. South China Morning Post. March 9, 2009.
By Richard W. Rahn. Washington Times. March 9, 2009.
By Jim Powell. National Review (Online). March 6, 2009.
Contractors Doomed to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
By David Isenberg. United Press International. March 6, 2009.
Fight Drugs or Terrorists — But Not Both
By Ted Galen Carpenter and David Rittgers. Guardian. March 6, 2009.
By Christopher A. Preble. National Interest (Online). March 6, 2009.
No Taxation without Representation? I’ll Take No Taxation
By Ilya Shapiro. DC Examiner. March 5, 2009.
Cartoon Protest Pits NAACP against Free Speech
By Nat Hentoff. Daily News Tribune. March 5, 2009.
How Obama’s Soak-The-Rich Plan Will End Up Hurting Middle Class
By Jim Powell. Investor’s Business Daily. March 3, 2009.
Conservatives Need a Humbler Foreign Policy
By Gene Healy. DC Examiner. March 3, 2009.
How Big Government Infrastructure Projects Go Wrong
By Jim Powell. Reason. March 2, 2009.