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<title>Will Wilkinson (Author at The Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>Will Wilkinson (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<description>Will Wilkinson</description>
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				<title>America Does Not Need More Czars (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9800</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Remember America's can-do, point man in the war on drugs, the so-called "Drug Czar?" Well, if you like czars, you'll love President-elect Barack Obama. He's proposing a new "technology czar," he's considering a "climate czar," and he's even floated the idea of a "car czar."



In tough times lik...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Advice to President-elect Obama (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9773</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, Barack Obama! You're the next President of the United States. Sadly, the government's so broke that even new curtains for the Oval Office are beyond the bounds of fiscal responsibility. Thanks to the war, the Wall Street bailout, the lousy economy, and the drop in tax revenue, your ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9773</guid>
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				<title>All Tax Plans Are Wealth Redistribution (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9739</link>
				<description><![CDATA[If you ask Joe, the money Joe's earned is Joe's money, and it should be up to Joe, not the government, how to spend it.

Well, I'm on your side Joe. Sort of. I dream of a government limited to a few essential functions with a minimum of redistribution. Sadly, no major candidate is offering that.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9739</guid>
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				<title>Thank You For Not Voting (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9741</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week's federal election was decided with the lowest levels of voter turnout in Canadian history -- about 59 per cent. But public-spirited citizens should not therefore wring their hands about the sorry state of Canadian democracy. Contrary to the folklore of democratic health, low turnout can s...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9741</guid>
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				<title>Bottoms Up! (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9645</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A hundred and thirty college presidents and chancellors have signed a controversial statement calling for a new debate about the legal drinking age; their notion is to lower it from 21 to 18. Alas, college presidents are politicians of a sort, so none will take the reopened debate where it needs to ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9645</guid>
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				<title>Why Opting Out Is No "Third Way" (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9681</link>
				<description><![CDATA[At first blush, "libertarian paternalism" seems a linguistic miscarriage, a self-crippling idea condemned to limp aimlessly in eternal darkness on the island of misfit creeds alongside "humanitarian sadism" and "color-blind racism." But that hasn't stopped Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, law and e...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9681</guid>
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				<title>Study Ranks Canada Economically Freer (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9662</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Wanna dodge the draft, get gay-married or smoke a joint without fear of life in the clink. Where do you go? Canada!

The frosty land of curling and Celine Dion has long been a destination for Americans fleeing the puritanical, war-mongering excesses of the States. And now, according to a new study...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Should Government Help Carmakers? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9638</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Detroit's "Big Three" automakers are struggling. Instead of making cars Americans want to buy, GM, Ford, and Chrysler are clamoring for tens of billions in taxpayer-subsidized government loans. Sadly, these sub-prime borrowers will likely get their cheap money. Both McCain and Obama are backing the ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9638</guid>
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				<title>Eating Locally Not Necessarily Better (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9612</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The food co-op in my new hometown offers buttons, bags, and newsletters coaxing customers to "eat local." The deli counter helpfully enumerates the "food miles" of the various goods on offer. That's the distance traveled from farm to market -- The New Oxford American Dictionary's "Word of the Year" ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9612</guid>
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				<title>Trade with China Gets the Gold (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9589</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The lavish opening ceremony of this summer's Beijing Olympic Games was, well, wow -- $100 million of wow. That comes to about $8,000 per second of wow.

Thirty years ago, the average person in China lived on less than $2 a day. Not so much wow. What happened? How can they afford this kind of extra...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9589</guid>
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				<title>Energy Plan Ads Just a Bunch of Wind? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9575</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Maybe you've seen T. Boone Pickens' commercial by now. The corporate takeover artist and hedge fund chairman is in the process of building the world's largest wind farm. He's also the nation's largest supplier of transportation-related natural gas.

Imagine Pickens' surprise when he discovered tha...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>U.S. Should Import More Skilled Workers (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9547</link>
				<description><![CDATA[If you're a highly-skilled worker, America needs you. But if you've got a foreign passport, we probably won't let you in.

The U.S. issues only 65,000 H-1B visas for skilled workers each year and that's not very many. Senators McCain and Obama have both said they would support raising the cap. The...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Government Only Helps Wage Disparity (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9521</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When we think of rising income inequality, it's the geek lords of Silicon Valley and the Manhattan hedge fund titans who come first to mind. What's less often considered is the federal government's major role in comforting the already comfortable. The politically-connected classes in and around Wash...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9521</guid>
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				<title>Man Has a Hand in Natural Disasters (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9494</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The poverty that exposes people to nature's dangers also kills. And that kind of poverty is no inevitability. It requires a human hand.

Back in the early 1950's, Burma was the wealthiest nation in Southeast Asia. But today, after a half-century of socialism and authoritarian rule, it's one of the...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9494</guid>
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				<title>Campaign Politics and the Food Crisis (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9495</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Do Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses cause food riots in Mozambique?

In recent months, demonstrations and riots have broken out all over the less-developed world in protest of the rising cost of the grains that make up the daily bread of so many. The recent run-up in prices is hitting the world...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9495</guid>
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				<title>A Silver Lining in the Housing Crisis (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9496</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Market downturns are rarely pretty. People get hurt. From February of last year to February of this year, the median price of existing American homes plunged almost 9%, the biggest dip in recent memory. Some people, especially those who signed up for adjustable rate mortgages, are struggling to make...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9496</guid>
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				<title>Missing the Target in the Blame Game (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9497</link>
				<description><![CDATA[What we all really want to know about the economy is: Who's to blame!?

Many people point the finger at former Fed chief Alan Greenspan, the Maestro himself. He kept interest rates low, and encouraged techniques to make mortgages accessible to more people. By doing so, the argument goes, Greenspan...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Money and Happiness Still Connected (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9498</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows happiness can't be bought. We all know a family short on cash but rich in love. And what good does a silk pillow case do you if you're crying into it every night?

But that doesn't mean wealth is irrelevant to happiness, does it? We all grasp the corrosive anxieties of poverty. Fre...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Too Much Consumption? Let Me Decide (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9499</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Critics often say capitalism produces, and we mindlessly consume, all sorts of junk we don't really need. We could live a lot more simply, more in tune with nature, with more time for one another.

Some thinkers say that individualistic consumerism distracts us from more satisfying collective purs...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9499</guid>
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				<title>The Economics of Tolerance (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9501</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Ask two different economists and you'll get three different answers about whether or not the U.S. economy is about to enter a recession. However things pan out, now's a great time to contemplate what scholars have learned about the consequences of recession: Sustained economic slowdown is more than ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9501</guid>
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				<title>The Fed Wins the Stimulus Debate (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9502</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In the past few days, we've heard Hillary Clinton rally for assistance to strapped mortgage-holders and folks struggling to pay their energy bills. Barack Obama prefers cutting $250 checks to low-wage workers and retirees.

For his part, President Bush wants to stave off recession by sending even ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9502</guid>
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				<title>Why Not a North American Union? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9503</link>
				<description><![CDATA[There are some who believe a grave threat to American sovereignty looms over the horizon. A shadowy cabal, they say, is planning a massive "NAFTA superhighway," a new North American currency, and a common market in goods and labor. It will all culminate in an E.U.-like North American Union.

It tu...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9503</guid>
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				<title>Losses Are from Fear, Not Foreign Trade (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9504</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Are Americans so averse to loss that we'll give up the gains from trade?

Recent polls suggest that American attitudes toward trade are lagging &#8212; behind France, behind communist China, behind socialist Venezuela and way behind impoverished but trade-happy Kenya.

This despite the fact that...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9504</guid>
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				<title>Give Credit the Credit It's Due (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9492</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It used to be a lot harder to borrow money. You'd have to grovel to your rich uncle or talk with some guy named Rocco, whose debt collection techniques emphasized mangled fingers.

These days it's hard not to have a credit card. Home loans are within easier reach, and there's even such a thing as ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9492</guid>
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				<title>Keep Complaining about the Economy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9493</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Come on! Will we ever get a recession? Sure, gas and food prices are inspiring new expeditions into couch cushions across the nation. But without full-on recession, without a declaration that the economy's officially hosed, it seems like we have to accept that it's not that bad.

With a real reces...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=9493</guid>
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