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March 29, 2013
Blog

On Spending Cuts, Politicians Prefer Gimmicks
… sent in by people who had seen real government waste close up: stop the “use it or lose it” budgeting policy, which leads agencies to blow taxpayer money at year’s end; stop giving paper calendars to workers who already …
By Tad DeHaven
March 29, 2013
Blog

WSJ Calls for No-Fly Zone in Syria, Acknowledges No-Fly Zone Isn’t Enough
… commit us to winning wars but demonstrate our limited will to win them. That is why they are bad public policy.” The Journal inadvertently recognizes all of these points and would rather we just go all the way and couple …
By Christopher A. Preble
March 29, 2013
Cato Video

Charles I. Plosser Speaks at the Cato Institute’s 30th Annual Monetary Conference
Featuring Charles I. Plosser
March 29, 2013
Cato Daily Podcast

A Lesson in Uncertainty from Cyprus
Featuring Richard W. Rahn and Caleb O. Brown
March 28, 2013
Cato Video

Eswar S. Prasad Speaks at the Cato Institute’s 30th Annual Monetary Conference
Featuring Eswar S. Prasad
March 28, 2013
The Umlaut

Europe between Planners and Searchers
… Easterly’s interest is in economic development, the distinction between planners and searchers is at the heart of many public policy disagreements. And in spite of appearances, the planners versus searchers dichotomy is not an ideological distinction. Some free‐marketeers …
By Dalibor Rohac
March 27, 2013
Cato Video

George Tavlas (Bank of Greece) Speaks at the Cato Institute’s 30th Annual Monetary Conference
Featuring George S. Tavlas
March 27, 2013
Blog

Booming Industry Warrants Federal Support. Apparently.
As if U.S. agriculture isn’t subsidised enough already.
By Sallie James
March 27, 2013
National Review (Online)

Three Years of Broken Promises
The president’s health-care law has done almost none of what he suggested it would.
By Michael D. Tanner
March 27, 2013
American Spectator (Online)

Stay out of Other Nations’ Civil Wars
… war. War should be a last resort, employed for interests that are truly vital. War should not be just another policy choice for impatient internationalists and frustrated social engineers. First, there is no impartial intervention. Entering the conflict is to …
By Doug Bandow
March 27, 2013
Blog

Targeting Multinationals, the OECD Launches New Scheme to Boost the Tax Burden on Business
… designed to become something akin to a World Tax Organization, with the power to persecute nations with free-market tax policy. The OECD supports Obama’s class-warfare agenda, publishing documents endorsing “higher marginal tax rates” so that the so …
By Daniel J. Mitchell
March 26, 2013
Cato Video

Jerry O’Driscoll at the Cato Institute’s 30th Anniversary Monetary Conference
Featuring Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr.
March 26, 2013
DC Examiner

A Bad Week for Drone Lovers
We’re starting to see pushback from the courts and Congress on the use of flying, spying robot weapons at home and abroad.
By Gene Healy
March 26, 2013
Washington Times

How Government Steals Your Savings
As the debt crisis deepens, governments are likely to increasingly engage in various forms of capital expropriation despite the fact that such activities are economically destructive and morally offensive.
By Richard W. Rahn
March 25, 2013
Cato Video

Lawrence H. White at the Cato Institute’s 30th Annual Monetary Conference
Featuring Lawrence H. White