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  • December 6, 1999
    Cato.org
    Kill Defense Pork
    … service quality. Unfortunately, the funds are being squandered to subsidize businessmen and reelect congressmen. As William Hartung of the World Policy Institute points out in a new study for the Cato Institute, the federal government spent $7.9 billion in …
    By Doug Bandow
  • December 2, 1999
    Cato.org
    Bringing Economic Sanity to Agricultural Trade
    … spent $362 billion in 1998 to support agriculture. (The EU spends nearly half its collective budget on the Common Agricultural Policy.) The results of widespread intervention are production surpluses, artificially depressed and volatile world prices and unnecessarily high food costs …
    By Daniel Griswold
  • November 30, 1999
    Cato.org
    U.S. Protectionism Stymies Efforts to Expand World Trade
    … crazy to keep their market closed because they cannot get into the U.S. market,” says George Mason University public policy professor Kenneth Button. “If JAL could fly from Tokyo to San Francisco, pick up passengers and fly on to …
    By Deroy Murdock
  • November 30, 1999
    Des Moines Register
    WTO Bashers Would Slam The Door On The World’s Poor
    … stands despite the region’s recent financial crisis, shows the rapid gains in human welfare possible when countries pursue a policy of “outward orientation.” In the space of a single generation, active engagement in world markets and an openness to …
    By Brink Lindsey
  • November 29, 1999
    The Wall Street Journal
    In Mexico, Too Much Money Still Chases Too Few Goods
    Now that Mexico’s legendary ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has completed its historic primary, the country is gearing up for what promises to be its most openly competitive presidential election yet. The Bank of Mexico’s policy …
    By James A. Dorn
  • November 24, 1999
    Journal of Commerce
    China’s Coming Battle with Congress
    … exchange. Does anyone seriously believe that China’s trade status with the US should be based on a liberal emigration policy, as called for in Jackson‐​Vanik? China would be glad to send millions of immigrants to the US in …
    By James A. Dorn
  • November 23, 1999
    The Wall Street Journal
    Budget Bloat Hides Good News About Spending
    … slow federal spending and a prosperity agenda aimed at coaxing economic growth up to 4% or 5% a year. The policy prescriptions necessary include: personalized accounts for Social Security, a flat 20% alternative maximum tax with unlimited IRAs, medical savings …
    By Stephen Moore
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