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Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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Contrary to countless tales of its demise, U.S. manufacturing has always been strong relative to its own past and relative to other countries’ manufacturing sectors.
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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.
Politicians like to ‘‘promise everybody everything’’—low interest rates, affordable mortgages, higher housing prices, lower gas prices, a chicken in every pot. That’s why it’s important to keep politics out of such matters.
The Cyprus ‘Bail-In’ Exposes ‘Too Big To Fail’ as All Too Timid
By Louise C. Bennetts. Forbes.com. April 18, 2013.
The Triumph Of Good Economics: ‘Austere’ Baltic States Outgrow Their European Neighbors
By Doug Bandow. Forbes. April 15, 2013.
By Steve H. Hanke. The Daily Beast. April 15, 2013.
What Made the Financial Crisis Systemic?
By Patric H. Hendershott and Kevin Villani. Policy Analysis No. 693. March 6, 2012.
Putting Politics above Markets: Historical Background to the Greek Debt Crisis
By Takis Michas. Working Paper No. 5. August 15, 2011.
Capital Inadequacies: The Dismal Failure of the Basel Regime of Bank Capital Regulation
By Kevin Dowd, Martin Hutchinson, Jimi M. Hinchliffe & Simon Ashby. Policy Analysis No. 681. July 29, 2011.
Dalibor Rohac. Economic Affairs. Vol. 31. No. 3. October 2012.
Steve H. Hanke. Liberty. July 2011.
Why Argentina Did Not Have a Currency Board
Steve H. Hanke. Central Banking. Vol. 18. No. 3. February 2008.
Financial Literacy: Empowering Americans to Prevent the Next Financial Crisis
By Mark A. Calabria. Testimony. April 30, 2012.
An Old Perspective on Asset Price Bubbles Policy
By William Poole. Testimony. April 8, 2011.
GSE Reform: Immediate Steps to Protect Taxpayers and End the Bailout
By Mark A. Calabria. Testimony. February 9, 2011.
Diminishing Quality of Fiscal Institutions in the United States and European Union
Thomas Grennes. Cato Journal. Winter 2013.
The Real Causes of the Financial Crisis
John A. Allison. Cato's Letter. Winter 2012.
David Boaz. Cato's Letter. Summer 2009.
At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?
Featuring John R. Lott, Jr. and David Boaz. April 19, 2013. Book Forum.
The Euro Crisis: Can Deeper Integration Save the European Union and the Common Currency?
Featuring Juan Carlos Hidalgo. February 8, 2013. Policy Forum.
The Financial Crisis and the Free-Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope
Featuring John A. Allison and David Boaz. October 24, 2012. Book Forum.
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