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The Cato Institute Think the Federal Reserve is independent? Think again.
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The Cato Daily Podcast allows experts and scholars affiliated with the Cato Institute to comment on relevant news in a conversational, informal manner. By presenting issues in a concise and engaging way, ...
The Cato Institute $848 billion is just the start. Here's an overview of all the hidden costs of the Senate health care bill:
The Arena - Michael F. Cannon's response to "THE HEALTH CARE ARENA THE REID BILL: "HOLY WAR?&QU
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The Cato Institute Must read: David Boaz compares two American presidents' definition of freedom. Obama's recent speech in China vs. Reagan's 1988 speech in Moscow.
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President Obama spoke to Chinese college students on Monday, as President Ronald Reagan spoke to Moscow State University students in 1988. There were a lot of similarities — both men are great communicators, ...
The Cato Institute If the health care overhaul bill were a medical product, it would have to come with a warning label, which could read something like this: "Warning: This product will increase your health insurance premiums, make your children poorer and won't make you healthier." (More in the link below.)
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The House health bill is neither safe nor effective. If it were medicine, the Food and Drug Administration would have to ban it.
The debate over how to reform America's health care sector often involves comparisons between the United States and other countries. One major limitation of these studies is the omission of any measure of innovation. When the United States subsidizes medical innovation, the whole world benefits...
The Obama administration has endorsed proposals to direct metropolitan areas to become more "compact" in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
The Cato Institute In the past 8 months, the unemployment rate has jumped from 7.2% to 10.2%. Here's why.
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Why did the unemployment rate rise so rapidly -- from 7.2 per cent in January to 10.2 percent in October? It was clearly the administration's "stimulus" bill -- which in February provided $40 billion
The Cato Institute Three trillion reasons to hope the Senate is not as fiscally reckless as their counterparts in the House on health care reform.
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A trillion here, a billion there, and pretty soon we’re talking real money. The House of Representatives has now passed its version of health care reform—a gargantuan 2,000-page, 70-pound collection ...
The Cato Institute Count them: 75,343 Bogus jobs 'created or saved' by the Stimulus: "More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were 'created or saved' by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major newspapers and the Associated Press."
The Cato Institute Good question: What if the government controlled health care, and the GOP were running the country?
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If you’re a progressive like me, and you’re upset by the Stupak amendment, which bars federally subsidized insurance from covering abortions, consider this: What if we had a single-payer health-care system and someone like Jeb Bush or Sarah Palin were running the country?
The Cato Institute A government takeover of health care is not pro-choice — for anyone: "When the government subsidizes health care, anything you do with that money becomes the voters’ business. And rather than allow for choice between different ways of doing things, the government typically imposes the preferences of the majority — or sometimes, a vocal minority — on everybody.” -Michael F. Cannon
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Michael F. Cannon is director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
Liberal governments have traditionally relied on a particular bargain, in which freedom of expression is maintained for all, and in which emotional satisfaction is a private pursuit, not a public guarantee...
The Cato Institute Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he plans to move five prisoners from Guantanamo to New York for a civilian trial. If there is to be a trial for persons accused of terrorism, it ought to be in civilian court. -Tim Lynch
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Today, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he plans to movefive prisoners from Guantanamo to New York for a civilian trial. Holder says the prisoners masterminded the 9/11 attacks and will now face the death penalty.
The Cato Institute In a speech yesterday, former President Bush warned of too much government. Shouldn’t President Bush be doing penance in a monastery somewhere, rather than embarrass the free-market cause by pretending that he wasn’t the biggest-government president in decades? -David Boaz
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said Thursday that America must resist the “temptation” to allow the government to take over the private sector, taking a subtle shot at his Democratic successor by warning that too much state intervention and protectionism will squelch the economic recovery…
The Cato Institute Freedom in Crisis: In a new video, Cato's David Boaz traces the path of liberty in America, discusses where we are today and where we're headed.
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Freedom is under assault, and has been for a while. We went through a lot in the past eight years—the excesses of the Patriot Act; the intrusion of the federal government into local schools; state decisions ...
