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  • February 12, 2009
    Guardian
    Obama’s Shock Doctrine
    … with her book The Shock Doctrine, in which she claimed that conservative governments use crises to ram through free‐​market policies. As she put it in an interview: “The Shock Doctrine is a political strategy that the Republican right has …
    By David Boaz
  • February 10, 2009
    News Releases
    Four Obama Statements That Deserve Closer Scrutiny
    … that numerous presidents, including Obama’s immediate predecessor, have used desperation and fear to sell some of the truly awful policies to come out of the U.S. government in the last 50 years—the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and …
  • February 6, 2009
    Blog
    Orange County Register Slams SCHIP
    … already had private health insurance, meaning that subsidized insurance was crowding out private insurance. As Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute put it to us, “Only in government is a program deemed to ‘work …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • November 18, 2008
    Blog
    In Education, the Big-Gov Battle Is On!
    … embracing “compassionate conservatism,” the big-government philosophy that brought us the No Child Left Behind Act. Fights over federal education policy could very well be the battle for the GOP’s soul in microcosm, and big-government types have quickly …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • March 6, 2008
    News Releases
    “EEV” of Destruction
    … for a free country—and would still fail to prevent illegal immigration” says Jim Harper, Cato’s director of Information Policy Studies and author of “Electronic Employment Verification: Franz Kafka’s Solution to Illegal Immigration.”To be done effectively, EEV …
  • February 8, 2008
    News Releases
    Ending Fiat Money Woes: A Return to the Gold Standard
    … the Gold Standard Still the Gold Standard among Monetary Systems?” White argues that the gold standard is a viable monetary policy capable of limiting inflation more reliably than the Federal Reserve. “Under a gold standard, the price level can be …
  • September 24, 2007
    Blog
    They Call Me Mr. Cynical
    … and always has been largely about self‐​interest, but self‐​interest of another sort: Michael Cannon, the director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, said he thought that self‐​interest had always dominated the discussion. “From my vantage …
    By Michael F. Cannon
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