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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, ...
David Richardson
David Richardson
H.R. 1207 needs to be passed so we can audit the fed!
Sat at 5:04am
John Perkins
John Perkins
It is supposed to be independent, however it needs to be transparent, and obsequious to Obama like Bernanke seems to be
Sat at 6:29pm
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The Cato Institute $848 billion is just the start. Here's an overview of all the hidden costs of the Senate health care bill:

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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, ...
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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.
Timothy
Timothy
From the people who brought you the customer service skills at the IRS and the efficeincy of the Motor Vehicle Division, with the thrift and bargain-hunting skills of the Pentagon - your New Health Care Plan.
November 19 at 3:18pm
Ryan
Ryan
"Reagan praised democracy and justice and openness". He often didn't practice what he preached. Two words: Iran Contra. The great (actor) communicator communicated greatly, no surprise there, but the tone of this article becomes "Reagan we miss you dearly." Easy...don't anyone fall into the trap. There hasn't been a true republican president since ... Read MoreEisenhower. When we play the left/right game we all lose. The words from either party are just those...words. Look at their actions. The sum of both parts equal the whole. Thus both parties have had their turns at the wheel and both have steered us into brickwalls...some have red bricks, some have blue bricks.
- a Son of Liberty.
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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...
York Drexler
York Drexler
Thank free markets for the advances of the drug companies . .God bless drug companies . . . .
November 19 at 5:51am
Peter
Peter
York: Although I agree with your statement, I'm not sure what you're talking about here...What does this have to do with healthcare reform???
November 19 at 7:31am
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The Obama administration has endorsed proposals to direct metropolitan areas to become more "compact" in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
Christopher Ganiere
Christopher Ganiere
Eliminating toll booths would do more to eliminate pollution than any sort of "compact city" initiative.
November 18 at 10:44pm
Peter
Peter
Not sure about that Christopher. Tolls could be electronic, for example.

But even if they weren't I think that when you take away the subsidy (i.e., public roads) to those who commute to the city core from the distant suburb, I think you'd see less traffic on those now un-subsidized roads.
November 19 at 7:28am
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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
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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 ...
Alison
Alison
Face it...the healthcare bill is unfunded and won't be paid for by cutting medicare reimbursements. History has proven that will never happen. Hold onto your wallets!
November 18 at 5:48am
Nancy
Nancy
When the senators walked out with their leader, Harry Reid {spell?}, yesterday, did you see the look on all of their faces (except for the red-haired lady). The words were positive, but the faces belied the words. It's coming, America--look out! Read about the Weimar Republic on wikipedia--see my comments today.
November 19 at 2:12am
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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."

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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?
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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.
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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...
Keith Harrell
Keith Harrell
good posts, Lara!
November 17 at 2:44am
Wayne DePriest
Wayne DePriest
“The great danger of this period is neither inflation nor the national debt. The great, the critical danger is that we will so limit or narrow the range of permissible discussions and permissible thought that we will become victims of the orthodox school... Read More… Our weakness grows when we become intolerant of opposing ideas, depart from the standards of civil liberties and borrow the policeman’s philosophy from the enemy we detest.” William O. Doouglas 1952
He could have written this yesterday, not more than fifty years ago.
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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.
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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…
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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 ...
Donna J Malus
Donna J Malus
Keep up your great work David!
November 12 at 7:45pm
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November 13 at 6:39am