# December 2012 

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#### Introduction

#### [Gene Healy and John Samples evaluate the 2012 election](/multimedia/cato-audio/gene-healy-john-samples-evaluate-2012-election)

#### [ John Allison on *The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure*](/multimedia/cato-audio/john-allison-financial-crisis-free-market-cure)

#### [P.J. O’Rourke on the dominance of politics by committees](/multimedia/cato-audio/pj-orourke-dominance-politics-committees)

#### [Tom G. Palmer on the unsustainable future of the welfare state](/multimedia/cato-audio/tom-g-palmer-unsustainable-future-welfare-state)

#### [Timothy P. Carney on who really benefits from big government](/multimedia/cato-audio/timothy-p-carney-who-really-benefits-big-government)

#### [Charles Murray on the coming collapse of the B.A. bubble](/multimedia/cato-audio/charles-murray-coming-collapse-ba-bubble)

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