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  • July 23, 2016
    Blog
    Tim Kaine Scored Poorly on Cato Report
    Kaine was governor of Virginia from January 2006 to January 2010. I assessed Kaine on Cato’s fiscal report card in 2008.
    By Chris Edwards
  • July 23, 2016
    Blog
    Attention Encourages Terrorism
    … Friedman, and I included two chapters that relate to this topic: “The Impact of Fear on Public Thinking about Counterterrorism Policy: Implications for Communicators,” by Priscilla Lewis, and “Communicating about Threat: Toward a Resilient Response to Terrorism,” by William Burns.
    By Jim Harper
  • July 22, 2016
    CapX
    Africa Is Growing Thanks to Capitalism
    … rose even more, from 4.03 to 6.39. Most impressively, Africa has made much progress in terms of monetary policy, or access to sound money, which rose from a low of 4.9 in 1995 to a remarkable 7 …
    By Marian L. Tupy
  • July 21, 2016
    National Interest (Online)
    The NATO Alliance Is Terminally Ill
    … of secessionists in eastern Ukraine. But Germany is not the only NATO member to exhibit doubts about the increasingly hardline policy toward Russia. Both Hungary and the Czech Republic have shown some reluctance. Turkey’s recent, very public, reconciliation with …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • July 21, 2016
    Blog
    Why the Money Multiplier Remains so Low
    Basel III, endogenous money, money multiplier, Quantitative Easing, reserve-deposit multiplier George Selgin’s latest monetary policy primer was a very good explanation of the money multiplier in fractional reserve banking systems. He also suggested that a number of factors …
    By Julien Noizet
  • July 20, 2016
    Blog
    Pervasive Misconduct and Corrosive Culture at the TSA
    … investigations have revealed the TSA to be ineffective and prone to security failures. My colleague Chris Edwards has an insightful policy analysis laying out the case for privatizing the TSA and following the lead of most airports in Europe and …
    By Charles Hughes
  • July 19, 2016
    Blog
    Tax Army Larger than U.S. Army
    Individuals and businesses spend 8.9 billion hours a year on federal tax paperwork, which is equivalent to 4.3 million people working full-time and year-round on this unproductive activity. That “tax army” is three times larger than our uniformed military of 1.4 million active duty service members.  
    By Chris Edwards
  • July 19, 2016
    Foundation for Economic Education
    Intervening in a World in Turmoil Will Only Make Things Worse
    The U.S. government must stop those seeking to kill Americans. It also must stop making so many enemies who will then seek to kill Americans. The best way to do that is for the government to do less militarily in the world.
    By Doug Bandow
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