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The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.
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				<title>Jim Powell (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>Obama's Plan to Seize Control of Our Economy And Our Lives (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14312</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama has made clear that he&#8217;s determined to continue pushing his &#8220;progressive&#8221; agenda, regardless of constitutional limitations on his power. He aims to have his way by issuing more and more executive orders.

The most ominous sign of possible things to come appeared o...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>What's at Stake as Obama Tries to Intimidate the Supreme Court (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14259</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s recent attack on the Supreme Court seems to be unprecedented.

There have been cases where a president was upset about an opinion after it was issued, but not cases where a president tried to influence a decision in the making. That might be comparable to jury tampering &#x26;md...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14259</guid>
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				<title>Where Was the Catholic Church When the Obamacare Mandate Was Being Debated? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14254</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s heartening to see Cardinal Timothy Dolan speak candidly about President Obama&#8217;s apparent betrayal. In November 2011, Obama had a face-to-face White House meeting with Dolan and promised that the Church&#8217;s charitable activities wouldn&#8217;t be subject to the Obamacare mandate....]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14254</guid>
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				<title>Outrageous Forced Contracts Could Become Legal If Obamacare Mandate Is Upheld (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14236</link>
				<description><![CDATA[During Supreme Court presentations about what kind of precedent the Obamacare mandate might set, if it&#8217;s upheld, there was some banter to the effect that maybe we might all be forced to eat broccoli.

Some observers might have come away with the impression that it&#8217;s hard to think of a ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14236</guid>
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				<title>How Entrepreneurs Created the Great Boom That Made Modern Japan (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14190</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In less than two generations, during the late 19th century, Japan transformed itself from a medieval backwater to a dynamic modern economy. They did it with comparatively little outside capital, public or private. It&#8217;s probably fair to say that Japan was more successful than any of the nations...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14190</guid>
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				<title>The Pleasures And Perils of Tax Loopholes (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14178</link>
				<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;re born, you suffer and you die,&#8221; evangelist Billy Graham remarked, &#8220;but fortunately there&#8217;s a loophole.&#8221;

Movie comedian W.C. Fields wasn&#8217;t known as a God-fearing man, so he was asked why he read the Bible. &#8220;I&#8217;m just looking for loopholes...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14178</guid>
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				<title>Barack Obama: The Anti Economic Growth President (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14153</link>
				<description><![CDATA[For several hundred years, a consensus developed in Western nations that economic growth &#8212; human progress &#8212; is a good thing. But now economic growth is under attack.

Economic growth has meant more jobs, higher incomes, more wealth and all the good things that become possible &#8212; a...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14153</guid>
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				<title>The Economic Leadership Secrets of Benito Mussolini (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14157</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini, Italy&#8217;s dictator from 1922 to 1943, is perhaps best-remembered as Hitler&#8217;s inept ally who was strung up by his outraged countrymen.

But he originated an economic system &#8212; economic fascism &#8212; that was acclaimed in his heyday, influenced U.S. economic policy...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14157</guid>
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				<title>Economic Fairness: President Obama's Most Cynical Tactic (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14102</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama claims to be on a moral crusade for &#8220;fairness.&#8221; In one campaign speech after another, he suggests that his soak-the-rich class warfare will stop &#8220;millionaires and billionaires&#8221; from grabbing more than their fair share of wealth. But the most likely outcome is ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14102</guid>
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				<title>Six Reasons Why the Wars We Wage Often Go Wrong (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14071</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Drums are beating for a pre-emptive war to take out such nuclear facilities as Iran might have. But considerable caution is in order, because this is basically the same story Americans heard not so long ago, in 2003, to promote the pre-emptive war against Iraq. Although the United States &#8220;won&#x26;...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14071</guid>
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				<title>Why There Is No Human Progress without Capitalism (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14058</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama is on the warpath, attacking capitalism, but Republican candidates haven&#8217;t offered much of a counter-attack. This is a bit of a mystery, since the case for capitalism is overwhelming.

For thousands of years, there was virtually no such thing as human progress. The great Fren...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14058</guid>
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				<title>The Most Important Secret of a Prosperous Economy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14018</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Why has the U.S. economy been such a poor performer in recent years? The short answer is that many Washington politicians either don't understand the most important secret of a prosperous economy, or they disregard it.

President Obama, for example, imagined that pumping money into the banking sys...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14018</guid>
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				<title>The Genius of "One Percenters" Is Their Amazing Command of the Obvious (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13981</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Arkansas merchant Sam Walton opened a store called Wal-Mart to offer people everyday bargains. He focused on under-served markets, expanded his business aggressively and became a billionaire. Why didn't anybody else do these things long ago? We all know people would rather pay less than more.

The...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13981</guid>
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				<title>How Did Our Friend Iran Become Our Enemy? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13970</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Before the United States goes to war with Iran, as many Americans seem anxious to do, we should first understand how Iran became our implacable enemy. U.S. presidents from Eisenhower to Carter viewed Iran as our friend. The CIA didn't see this coming, and neither did our State Department.

The sto...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13970</guid>
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				<title>Obama and Teddy Roosevelt: Both Progressives, Both Clueless about the Economy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13924</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama is a smart man who believes great wealth is a social problem, and ordinary people would be better off if wealth were substantially taxed away. Recently he drew inspiration from Theodore Roosevelt, another smart man who had a similar view, completely misinterpreted what was happening ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13924</guid>
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				<title>How Bad Economies Recover Fast When Governments Get out of the Way (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13926</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It can take years or decades for a bad economy to recover if government throws enough obstacles in the way, like high taxes, costly regulations and class warfare against "millionaires and billionaires." But a turnaround can begin within hours when government gets out of the way.

That's what happe...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13926</guid>
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				<title>Rich Nations That Went Broke by Spending Too Much (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13898</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Government spending drives taxes, deficits, debt and inflation, so it's at the core of our economic problems. What to do about runaway spending? The tendency is to imagine that it might be controlled by electing the right politicians, enacting a law like a balanced budget amendment, passing a spendi...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13898</guid>
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