April 7, 2009 3:55PM 

# New at Cato (4/7/09) 

By Brandon Arnold 

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Here are a few highlights from *Cato Today*, a comprehensive daily email from the Cato Institute. You can subscribe, [here](https://www.cato.org/ecommunity/index.php)

- Focusing on [“Lessons from the Financial Crisis](https://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj29n1/cj29n1.html)” the newest edition of [*Cato Journal*](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=SubscriptionDetails&pid=SUBSC-JOURNAL) is now available.

- In [*The Wall Street Journal*](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10103), Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith discuss why asset bubbles form in markets, and how they can lead to a Depression.

- Ted Galen Carpenter [comments](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10102) on last weekend’s NATO agreement on what strategy to pursue with Afghanistan in *National Interest*.

- Writing in *The Washington Times*, Nat Hentoff [weighs in](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10101) on the human rights atrocities that continue in Darfur.

- In Tuesday’s [Cato Daily Podcast](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=870), Glenn Greenwald discusses his new [Cato report](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080) on the successful drug decriminalization in Portugal.

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