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  • February 23, 2010
    Blog
    Tuesday Links
    … ignore basic economic laws — and the result could be disastrous for the American health‐​care system.” Does this federal government policy make me look fat? Be honest. (Yes). So, President Obama wants a presidential commission on the budget deficit. Isn …
  • December 4, 2009
    Blog
    Is Ayn Rand Good for the Cause of Liberty?
    … influential, exposing countless people to a libertarian message. But the column’s author, Heather Wilhelm of the free‐​market Illinois Policy Institute, has a good point. Rand’s emphasis on individual freedom is laudable, but she makes herself an easy …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
  • January 16, 2009
    Blog
    Why Congress Should Turn Federal Lands into Fiduciary Trusts
    … is strongly resisted by environmentalists, recreationists, and others. A new paper from Cato scholar Randal O’Toole suggests an alternative policy: turn them into fiduciary trusts. Under this proposal, the U.S. would retain title to the lands, but the …
    By Cato Editors
  • December 30, 2008
    Blog
    ‘First, Assume I’m Right’
    … Perhaps my memory is corrupted by nostalgia, but wasn’t there an era when the Times op‐​ed page discouraged policy commentary based on made‐​up, make‐​believe numbers? As Miller might have discovered if he had researched the issue …
    By Andrew J. Coulson
  • September 30, 2008
    Blog
    No Bailout Will Silence This!
    … few stories are attracting much attention, and the edublogosphere has been eerily quiet. Unfortunately for both the country and education‐​policy peeps, there’s a good chance our economic problems, and political efforts to make them worse, will continue to …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • October 22, 2004
    The Wall Street Journal
    Not Spitzer’s Job
    … brokers who keep bringing high‐​risk clients to insurers will not be rewarded for doing so. Contingent fees for renewing policies also provide a clear incentive for brokers to keep clients satisfied. Business insurance can be custom‐​tailored, so policies …
    By Alan Reynolds
  • May 9, 1999
    Washington Times
    Don’t Fund UNFPA Population Control
    … some of the most unspeakably brutal population control programs around the globe — including China’s genocidal one‐​couple, one‐​child policy. Almost universally, women and children — at least hundreds of thousands of them — have been the victims of this fanatical …
    By Stephen Moore
  • October 22, 1992
    The Wall Street Journal
    Bush’s Task: Turn Out Lights On Energy Bill
    … each other on the back for passing this “courageous, visionary” blueprint for America’s energy future, the Comprehensive National Energy Policy Act is not comprehensive — it is marginal. It is not national — it is parochial. And it is not policy …
    By Jerry Taylor
  • Fall 1988
    Cato Journal
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    Searching for Safety by Aaron Wildavsky
    … Economics, rather than ideology, probably affected the secretary’s response to the Russians. Similarly, Higgs attributes President Grover Cleveland’s policy of making secret, below- marketdeals for the sale of government bonds to “the Titans ofWall Street” (p. 89) to …
    By Martin T. Katzman
  • July 23, 2015
    Book Forum
    The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century
    … book, Bailey provides a detailed examination of the theories, studies, and assumptions currently spurring forecasts of calamity and shaping environmental policy. Breaking down the numbers, he finds that — thanks to human ingenuity and economic progress — many current ecological trends are …
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    Richard L. Gordon
    Richard L. Gordon
    … Economics which he held until his retirement in 1996. His work on coal includes: four books — The Evolution of Energy Policy in Western Europe, the Reluctant Retreat from Coal (1970), U.S. Coal and the Electric Power Industry (1975), Coal …
  • July 31, 2023
    Blog
    Did Global Population Really Surpass 8 Billion Last Year?
    Did Global Population Really Surpass 8 Billion Last Year?
    … just 7.979 billion at the beginning of July. Population and especially population growth estimates are an important basis for policy. The UN projects that the population will continue to grow into the 2080s when it will reach 10.4 …
    By Marc Joffe
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