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  • June 14, 2012
    Cato Video
    Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) Discusses 'Ron Paul's Revolution'
    Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) Discusses ‘Ron Paul’s Revolution’
    Ron Paul’s two presidential campaigns have galvanized a mass movement for smaller government, sound money, and an end to our interventionist foreign policy. This genuinely spontaneous movement has featured blimps, “money bombs,” the rEVOLution logo, and thousands of college …
    Featuring Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
  • December 19, 2011
    Blog
    The Brutal Impact of North Korean Statism
    One hopes that the dictator of North Korea suffered greatly before he died. After all, his totalitarian and communist (pardon the redundancy) policies have cause untold death and misery. But let’s try to learn an economics lesson. In a …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
  • November 17, 2011
    Blog
    Solyndra: Crooked Politics or Just Bad Economics?
    Amy Harder has a good take on the Solyndra issue in National Journal Daily (subscription required): Lesser evil: crony capitalism or bad policy? Energy Secretary Steven Chu is about to find out when he testifies before a House panel on …
    By David Boaz
  • October 21, 2011
    Blog
    Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street
    Cato’s Tom Palmer discusses the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tea Party in a debate with The Nation’s Peter Rothberg at PolicyMic: The Tea Party has a coherent message: Stop the bailouts, stop the cronyism, and stop …
    By Zach Graves
  • July 9, 2011
    Blog
    New Light on Paternalism
    Media Name: light-bulb-ban1.jpg Yesterday Mario Rizzo pointed out a couple of new studies on the unexpected results of paternalist policies designed to “nudge” Americans into making what their betters consider smart decisions. In today’s Wall Street …
    By David Boaz
  • July 6, 2011
    Blog
    Will ‘the People’ Fall for It?
    Today POLITICO Arena asks: President Barack Obama is taking a cue from President Bill Clinton by pushing a series of bite‐​sized policies. Among them: a new fatherhood pledge, graphic tobacco warnings, updated sunscreen requirements, an anti‐​bullying summit and …
    By Roger Pilon
  • September 24, 2010
    Blog
    ObamaCare Leads Minnesota Insurers to Suspend Sales
    From the Minneapolis Star‐​Tribune: Two of Minnesota’s biggest health plans said Thursday they have temporarily suspended sales of individual health insurance policies because of uncertainty related to the new federal health reform law. The moves by Blue Cross …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • May 14, 2010
    Los Angeles Times
    Gulf Oil Spill: Same Old Arguments
    … using carrots or sticks to compel companies to make otherwise unprofitable economic decisions. Instead of moving the debate on energy policy forward, the spill is being used to grind preexisting policy axes. Unfortunately, those axes were none too sharp to …
    By Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor
  • February 4, 2010
    Blog
    A Perfect Storm of Regulatory Ignorance
    Does the government know what it’s doing, can it know what it’s doing, in financial regulation? In the latest issue of Cato Policy Report, Jeffrey Friedman doubts it: You are familiar by now with the role of the …
    By David Boaz
  • January 14, 2010
    Blog
    White House, Unions Reach Deal on Taxing Insurance Coverage
    The Washington Post reports that the White House has reached a tentative agreement with labor leaders to tax high‐​cost health insurance policies. What did you think of the negotiations? You did watch them on C‑SPAN, didn’t you …
    By Jim Harper
  • January 4, 2010
    Blog
    Bernanke Still Doesn’t Get It
    … Ben Bernanke offered a continued defense of the Fed’s monetary policies earlier this decade. Essentially he believes that monetary policy did not contribute to the housing bubble. He also makes clear that he believes that the excessively loose policy …
    By Mark A. Calabria
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