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Fall 2014
Regulation

How to Make Medicine Safe and Cheap
Assuring that affordable, high‐quality drug therapies are available in poor countries is a priority for policymakers, scholars, and advocacy groups around the world. However, there is little agreement over how to achieve that goal. Some see international arbitrage as …
By Steve H. Hanke, Alexander B. Rose, and Stephen J. K. Walters
October 7, 2014
Blog

Biden Should Not Have Apologized
Vice President Joe Biden has reportedly apologized to the leaders of Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and other Middle East countries for his previous comments that they had, perhaps inadvertently, supported Sunni extremists in the Syrian civil war.
By Ted Galen Carpenter
October 7, 2014
Blog

Foreign Investment Disputes in International Courts
… on this issue, it is important to be precise. Foreign investors cannot sue “over any rules, regulations or changes in policy that they say harm their financial interests.” Rather, they can sue if the host government has discriminated against an …
By Simon Lester
October 7, 2014
Gulan Media

Saudi Arabia: an Unsavory, Untrustworthy Member of the Anti-ISIL Coalition
Western leaders badly need to reassess their assumptions about Riyadh’s motives and probable actions.
By Ted Galen Carpenter
October 7, 2014
Forbes

Democracy in Hong Kong? Only over Beijing’s Dead Body — but Hopefully Not over the Demonstrators’ Bodies
… certainly not under the PRC. Alas, all good things come to an end, at least when it comes to foreign policy. Great Britain took three bites at the apple: it seized Hong Kong Island, then the Kowloon Peninsula, and later …
By Doug Bandow
October 3, 2014
Blog

Bulgaria’s October 5th Elections: A Flashback at the Economic Records
The misery index readings make clear that socialist-led governments in Bulgaria have delivered misery.
By Steve H. Hanke
October 3, 2014
Blog

The Pension Burden on State Budgets
Cato’s “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors” focuses on short‐term tax and spending decisions made by governors. But governors and legislatures also make important decisions that will affect state budgets over the longer term. As Chris …
By Nicole Kaeding
October 3, 2014
Blog

Should Intellectual Property Be in Trade Agreements?
If you think of trade agreements as covering issues related to trade, or areas that could increase U.S. exports, there’s just no limit to what could be included.
By Simon Lester
October 3, 2014
U.S. News & World Report (Online)

A War That Never Ends
The U.S. has discovered time and again —in Iraq, the Balkans, Yemen, Somalia and Libya as well as in Afghanistan — that bombing, invading and occupying other nations rarely delivers stability.
By Doug Bandow
October 3, 2014
Daily Caller

Letting Lehman Fail Was a Choice, and It Was the Right One
Saving Lehman would have been just one of many actions of questionable legality taken by regulators.
By Mark A. Calabria
October 3, 2014
Blog

At a Minimum, Transatlantic Trade Negotiations Should Ditch Investor-State Provisions
Eight reasons for purging ISDS from the trade negotiations.
By Daniel J. Ikenson
October 2, 2014
National Review (Online)

Governors Make Fiscal Progress
Washington is gridlocked, but many states are cutting taxes.
By Chris Edwards and Nicole Kaeding
October 2, 2014
Blog

Grading America’s Governors
The report card uses statistical data to grade the governors on their tax and spending performance from a limited-government perspective.
By Nicole Kaeding
October 1, 2014
Blog

Obama Puts Americans at Risk: ISIL’s Neighbors Should Eliminate the “Caliphate”
The murder of two Americans captured in the region was horrid but opportunistic. Morally abominable, yes. Cause for war, no.
By Doug Bandow
October 1, 2014
Blog

Washington Should Recognize India as an Emerging Great Power
Friendlier political relations between the United States and India would remind the PRC that its growing power is matched by that of its wary neighbors.
By Doug Bandow

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How to Make Medicine Safe and Cheap

Biden Should Not Have Apologized

Foreign Investment Disputes in International Courts

Saudi Arabia: an Unsavory, Untrustworthy Member of the Anti-ISIL Coalition

Democracy in Hong Kong? Only over Beijing’s Dead Body — but Hopefully Not over the Demonstrators’ Bodies

Bulgaria’s October 5th Elections: A Flashback at the Economic Records

The Pension Burden on State Budgets

Should Intellectual Property Be in Trade Agreements?

A War That Never Ends

Letting Lehman Fail Was a Choice, and It Was the Right One

At a Minimum, Transatlantic Trade Negotiations Should Ditch Investor-State Provisions

Governors Make Fiscal Progress

Grading America’s Governors

Obama Puts Americans at Risk: ISIL’s Neighbors Should Eliminate the “Caliphate”

Washington Should Recognize India as an Emerging Great Power