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				<title>Will Wilkinson (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>The Dauphin of Detroit (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10283</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As its power expands, the government bureaucracy increasingly resembles an aristocracy. How else to explain the enormous power invested in Brian Deese, the unknown, unelected, 31-year-old White House aide in command of General Motors?

"Brian Deese isn't picking out Chevy Malibu's colors for next ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Rise of Collectivist Conservatives (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10227</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Today's Republican Party is a comedy of incompetence and strife. Yet beneath the hijinks lurks a struggle to define the proper relationship of the individual to society and to the state. If we don't dig too deep, the fight for the soul of the conservative movement looks something like this: In the r...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10227</guid>
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				<title>Politics Plays Role in Bailout Mania (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10180</link>
				<description><![CDATA["I don't want to run the auto companies, and I don't want to run banks," President Obama said last week during a prime-time press conference on the fate of Detroit. He may not want to, but the Obama administration is effectively running auto companies and banks. And the president does get a bit cran...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Immigration Fallacy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10149</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Here is what Toronto is not: Toronto is not dirty, dangerous, or poor. Toronto is not a hell of lost liberties or a babble of cultural incoherence or a ruin of failed institutions. Yet a popular argument against high levels of immigration suggests it should be.

In his 2004 book Who Are We?: The C...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10149</guid>
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				<title>Obama Budget Adds Up to a Big Problem (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10138</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama has ordered his cabinet to root out $100 million in unnecessary spending over the next 90 days. That sounds like a lot of money, but $100 million comes to three-thousandths of a percent of Obama's upcoming $3.5 trillion budget.

Some commentators are mocking the feebleness of this ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The 1930's Are a World Away (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10108</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Our current economic downturn has brought to life old debates about the the Great Depression: What got us into it and what got us out of it? The role of the New Deal looms large. Did it deepen the Depression, as many economic historians now say? Or did it save capitalism from itself, like I learned ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10108</guid>
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				<title>I Smoke Pot, and I Like It (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10096</link>
				<description><![CDATA["The answer is no, I don't think that is a good strategy to grow our economy." President Obama said it with a chuckle last week at a town hall-style forum. The idea was for Obama to answer some questions about the economy submitted to the White House website. The most popular ones all had something ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10096</guid>
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				<title>Don't Provoke a Cap-and-Trade War (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10069</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the U.S. should be open to slapping tariffs on imports from countries that fail to implement their own carbon reduction policies. Meanwhile, China has threatened trade war if faced with carbon duties, which it says are illegal under World Trade Organizatio...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10069</guid>
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				<title>Obama's Self-Immolating Capitalism (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10058</link>
				<description><![CDATA[There are two capitalisms. There is mundane market capitalism and there is political capitalism. Markets regulated by the rule of law and governed by a freely functioning price system are post and beam in the architecture of prosperity. You step into a grocery and there in the freezer are your covet...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10058</guid>
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				<title>Obama Taking Advantage of the Crisis (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10036</link>
				<description><![CDATA["You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has said. "Never waste a good crisis" is how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it before a European audience last week.

The author, Naomi Klein, has dubbed the exploitation of crisis for political ends ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10036</guid>
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				<title>Tilting Homeowner Rules Seems Unfair (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10003</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Love him or hate him, Rick Santelli's now infamous on-air rant has touched a nerve. Shouting from the trading floor of the commodities exchange in Chicago, CNBC's Santelli asked: "How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills?" T...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10003</guid>
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				<title>The Self-Defeating Stimulus (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9991</link>
				<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed into law the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- "the stimulus bill," as the newspapers say. In the debate over the bill, a forcefully poised Obama warned of the danger that "our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9991</guid>
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				<title>Stimulus More Psychology Than Theory (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9968</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The government is about to spend $838 billion in taxpayer dollars on the premise that the economy otherwise risks spinning into a sort of death spiral. So how exactly is this supposed to work? The terrifying fact is that nobody really knows.

The president's idea, in a nutshell, is that American i...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Captives in Our Homes (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9944</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In democracies the people get what they want. In America, we've always dreamed of owning a house&#8212;a 1,500-square-foot stake in the community. We demand roots&#8212;with a rec room. So over the past decade our government obligingly delivered a heady brew of monetary policy, tax breaks, and loan ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>We Need Cynics (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9926</link>
				<description><![CDATA[By late September of 2001, George W. Bush was the most popular president of modern times. The tragic shock of 9/11 awakened a sense of patriotism, common purpose, and deference to government entirely new to Americans who came of age after Nixon. The President displayed comforting steel in the wake o...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Getting a New Job May Mean Moving (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9928</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Recent psychological research confirms what you probably already know: unemployment is toxic to happiness. Some studies show that the depressing effects of job loss are even worse than divorce. The blow is not so much about money as a loss of purpose and community.

For many, losing a job means mu...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9928</guid>
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				<title>Obama Stimulus Bears a Closer Look (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9890</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week in his big economic stimulus speech, President-elect Barack Obama promised less waste and a sunny new climate of transparency. Obama says, "We'll invest in what works." This week, we're asking, "So, what works?"

The simplest stimulus plan is a temporary cut in the Social Security payrol...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9890</guid>
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