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David Boaz and Caleb O. Brown discuss yesterday's inaugural address.- RecommendationsSee All
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A new video from Reason Magazine follows a family who found themselves entangled in a bureaucratic nightmare with FEMA when they tried to rebuild their fire-damaged home.The Cato Institute shared a link.
No good deed goes unpunished where DC firearms laws are concerned.The Cato Institute shared Cato On Campus's photo.
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Monday marked the third anniversary of the Citizens United Supreme Court free speech ruling. Contrary to many of the claims, here's a short video detailing the facts of the case.- Despite huge and ongoing budget deficits, some policymakers are proposing to increase federal spending on infrastructure.
President Obama, for example, has called for passage of a $50 billion plan for new infrastructure investment. The pre...sident and other leaders believe that more federal spending on roads, rail, and other assets would boost growth and create jobs.
A new Cato bulletin argues that instead of piling on more federal spending, we should devolve federal infrastructure activities to the states, where local businesses and entrepreneurs can help America solve its mobility and congestion challenges: http://www.cato.org/publications/tax-budget-bulletin/infrastructure-investment-state-local-private-responsibilitySee More - Need something to read for inauguration weekend? Get Gene Healy's new e-book, False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency, for only $1.99 with the code "WINTER13": http://store.cato.org/false-idol-barack-obama-continuing-cult-presidency-digital
Sharply focused and rigorously researched, False Idol is a highly compelling examination of both the Obama administration and our fixation on the fable of being led, comforted, and delivered by a presidential savior. - How much did Obama, Romney, and Johnson spend per vote in the 2012 election cycle? Find out here: http://www.cato.org/blog/dollars-vote-presidential-election
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"As the burden of government spending increases, this creates an ever-growing incentive for more and more people to figure out ways of riding in the wagon while simultaneously imposing higher and higher costs on those pulling the wagon. As we see in Greece, that formula doesn't end well."The Cato Institute shared a link.
The contraceptive mandate in ObamaCare pits conscience against the demands of central planning, says Ilya Shapiro in this Cato Daily Podcast.The Cato Institute shared a link.
Two Cato Events Live Streaming at 12:00 PM ET: "Failing Law Schools" and "Policy Events in the Digital Age."The Cato Institute shared a link.
The Cato Institute is the most effective major think tank in the U.S. when it comes to profile per dollar spent, according to a new ranking from the Center for Global Development.- At Cato Unbound, Derek Khanna argues that copyright was never intended to stand in perpetuity, yet that is in effect what we have for a large number of works today. Copyright's original purpose was not to compensate content creators, but to... promote the arts and sciences, as explained in the Constitution. Returning to that aim, says Khanna, should entail shorter copyright terms, which permit future reuses of creative content.
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Author Craig Whitney discusses his new book making "a liberal's case for the Second Amendment."The Cato Institute shared a link.
A new proposal from Gov. Bobby Jindal would get rid of Louisiana's personal and corporate income taxes. Daniel J. Mitchell comments.The Cato Institute shared a link via Caleb O. Brown.
Cato Associate Policy Analyst David B. Kopel chats with Caleb O. Brown about what's likely to come for Second Amendment rights in 2013.The Cato Institute shared a link.
"As the size and power of government increase, we can expect more of society’s resources to be directed toward influencing government."The Cato Institute shared a link.
High tax rates at the top undermine prosperity and entrepreneurship.- Cato's Mark Calabria makes the cover of National Review calling for an end to bank bailouts: https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/337357/end-bailouts
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Attorney Alan Gura discusses various proposed restrictions emerging out of the shootings in Connecticut.- Cato Chairman Robert A. Levy was the organizer and financier behind District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court Case that established the Second Amendment as affirming an individual right to gun ownership.
Levy discusses gun rights after the Newtown shooting and where he disagrees with the NRA on gun regulations in today's Washington Post: http://j.mp/UUI1LO - Learn more about the late Nobel Prize winning economist and Cato senior fellow James M. Buchanan at Libertarianism.org:
- Economists since the time of Adam Smith have pointed to the strong relationship between prosperity and open markets. More economic freedom is indeed associated with greater wealth, higher growth, and improvements in the whole range of human development indicators.
At a time when India has benefited from sustained high growth as a result of liberal reforms, it is important to measure the diverse levels of economic freedom from state to state, and highlight the positive association between increases in economic freedom and economic growth.
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Minting a $1 trillion platinum coin is a cheap gimmick to avoid dealing with the real issues facing our country.The Cato Institute shared a link.
"If economic growth stays as slow as it has been lately, but spending stays high, our debt-to-GDP ratio will get bigger, slowing economic growth further and creating a devilish sequence of cause and effect."The Cato Institute shared a link.
After eleven years of war in Afghanistan, it's once again time to take stock of what the United States has achieved there. Malou Innocent offers her thoughts in today's Cato podcast:- James M. Buchanan, a Cato Institute distinguished senior fellow and Nobel Prize winning economist widely known for his work in the field of public choice theory, has passed away. May he rest in peace.
"James M. Buchanan, RIP," by David Boaz - http://www.cato.org/blog/james-m-buchanan-rip
"James M. Buchanan (1919–2013), Friend of Liberty," by James A. Dorn - http://www.cato.org/blog/james-m-buchanan-1919-2013-friend-liberty
Cato Profile: http://www.cato.org/people/james-buchanan
Biography: http://www.libertarianism.org/people/james-m-buchanan
Collected Works: http://www.econlib.org/library/Buchanan/buchCContents.html - Despite the United States’ focus on the Middle East and the Islamic world for the past decade, the most important international political developments in the coming years are likely to happen in Asia. The main factor driving Washington’s in...terest in the region is the growing economic and military power of the People’s Republic of China.
In a new study, Cato scholar Justin Logan examines the U.S. foreign policy implications of China’s growing power and influence: http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/china-america-pivot-asiaSee More - President Obama on Monday nominated former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense, replacing the retiring Leon Panetta. Neoconservatives are in an uproar over the selection. Cato scholar Justin Logan suggests that the pending... battle over Hagel’s nomination could be a “perestroika moment” in the American foreign and defense policy debate. “If Hagel survives this process,” argues Logan, “it will show that you can stare down the neocons and live to tell the tale.”
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You don't cure alcoholics by giving them more to drink, and you don't cure out-of-control government spending and debt by giving them more revenue, says Daniel J. Mitchell.- ActivityJanuaryPeople Who Like ThisVisits3,45619