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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.
How Washington Encourages Nuclear Proliferation
By Ted Galen Carpenter. National Interest (Online). March 18, 2013.
Letter to the Editor: Apply Yourselves to Morgenstern’s Gem
By Steve H. Hanke. Financial Times. March 17, 2013.
What’s the Trigger That Will Cause the Fed to Act?
By Henry G. Manne and Richard W. Rahn. Forbes. March 17, 2013.
By Deepak Lal. Business Standard. March 15, 2013.
The GOP on Foreign Policy: Rhetoric v. Reality
By Malou Innocent. Huffington Post. March 14, 2013.
Drones Are the Price of the Perpetual Warfare State
By Malou Innocent. US News and World Report Online. March 14, 2013.
Politicians’ Public Service Often Creates Public Suffering
By Doug Bandow. Investor’s Business Daily. March 14, 2013.
By Doug Bandow. National Interest (Online). March 14, 2013.
By Chris Edwards. Daily Caller. March 13, 2013.
By Neal McCluskey. TownHall.com. March 13, 2013.
Bloomberg’s Soda Grab and the Administrative State
By Walter Olson. Commentary. March 13, 2013.
Interview: Answers to Questions from Emil Petrov and George Sharabov
By Steve H. Hanke. Trud. March 13, 2013.
Now John Brennan Globally Denies Torture
By Nat Hentoff. Cato.org. March 13, 2013.
By Michael D. Tanner. National Review (Online). March 13, 2013.
By Ted Galen Carpenter. Aspenia. March 13, 2013.
Rand Paul vs. the ‘Forever War’
By Gene Healy. DC Examiner. March 12, 2013.
Soda Ban Ruling a Devastating Defeat for Mayor Bloomberg
By Walter Olson. Daily Caller. March 12, 2013.
Venezuela: On the Death of Chávez and the Ailing Bolivar
By Steve H. Hanke. Huffington Post. March 12, 2013.
By Richard W. Rahn. Washington Times. March 12, 2013.
A Development in Berlin Threatens the Wall That Once Divided a Continent
By Doug Bandow. Forbes. March 11, 2013.
Why the EU’s Microsoft Fine Is Self-Defeating
By Dalibor Rohac. US News and World Report Online. March 11, 2013.
Medicaid Expansion Too Good to Be True
By Michael D. Tanner. Detroit News. March 11, 2013.
By Dalibor Rohac. National Review (Online). March 11, 2013.
The Anatomy of D.C.’s Snowstorm Forecast Bust: When Good Science and Good People Go Wrong
By Patrick J. Michaels. Forbes.com. March 10, 2013.
Killing School Choice Hurts Poor Families
By Jason Bedrick. New Hampshire Business Review. March 8, 2013.